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When labor leaders get killed
The row of factories that lined the main road in Barangay Mamatid, Cabuyao, Laguna brought back memories of another time, when students like her, from the University of the Philippines at Los Baños (UPLB), crossed over from student activism to trade union organizing.
“We...
PCSO levels up in gender and development
After review and evaluation of the agency’s Gender and Development activities covering the period October 2017 to November of this year, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Alexander Balutan reported that the agency is now a Gender Mainstreaming Evaluation Framework (GMEF)...
The subject was Filipino
Among the first columns I wrote for this magazine, one stands out in my memory as one of my favorites. It dealt with Filipino as our official language and the role of the Supreme Court in fostering its use. I argued that the...
Go, girl
Apparently, Melania did not get along with one of her husband’s hires, a woman named Mira Ricardel, a deputy national security adviser who is a top aide of John Bolton, the head of the National Security Council. The Office of the First Lady...
The pajama games
I think, if President Duterte’s attendance at international summits is to be guaranteed, whoever is hosting should consider holding sleepovers instead of boring old meetings. Meetings are boring—only grown-ups go to them to do, ugh, Business. A pajama party, now, that’s a different...
British author in Manila: A conversation in Solidaridad
James Hamilton-Paterson, if National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose’s word is to be taken as it is meant, is one of the few non-Filipino authors who has written about the Philippines with a very level view of our people and this archipelago...
