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The dialectic of violence: When blood stains our condiments
Red in the face. Not because of anger, but her own blood.
The 56-year-old woman in the photo-graph was one of roughly 300 NutriAsia supporters and workers who attended an ecumenical service around noon of July 30, Monday, within company grounds. NutriAsia is located...
Practical theory
Are we ladies protesting too much? The intention was good, but is it fair to damn the Angono police as leading women to somewhere infernal? How good is good advice if it comes unsolicited from men? Before answering, let’s hear what the men...
Much ado over media regulation
Media should not—ever—be regulated by government. That would defeat the democratic principle of a free and independent press, one of the best benchmarks for measuring the strength of a nation and its democracy.
All efforts to regulate the media will be met with a...
Blood, sweat, and political bluster heighten in raging July
A spree of violence contrasted with presidential attempts at religious peace-making as the first week of July rolled on the blood of two mayors, two vice mayors, a councilor, and a radio broadcaster while President Rodrigo Duterte committed to mend fences with the...
By farce of arms
Many mythologies tell stories of men, some heroic, others not, whose might and power gave them an aura of invincibility stronger than any armor. What they had in common was a vulnerability that, if exposed, made it possible to defeat them. There was...
How poetry and freedom mix
It isn’t often one gets to do a sit-down interview under the spreading branches of an acacia tree, while sprawled on one’s trench coat over green, fragrant grass. But that’s how an interview with a poet can go.
Once journalist, poet and translator Tammy...
