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The Maids’ Revolt

The gunfire echoed along the ship’s corridor. Kuya One, who was known only by his call sign, welcomed the sound this time, as it...

Duterte Arrested on ICC Warrant

Ex-President Charged with Crimes Against Humanity The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his transfer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The...

Retrograde

The force of fate couldn’t fight for us.Venus showed me the way to youjust as I pointed her and the Moonfor you to gaze.He...

Reflections on the Void

I’ll begin with a crude reduction of La Bruyere’s opening paragraph from Les Characteres: Nothing here is meant to be the first of its...

Love, Social Justice & Corporate Social Responsibility in the time of global challenges

“There she is,” the woman in the car told her son, as she pointed to a petite and thin sampaguita garland vendor sitting on...

Stranger

You had been here You had come wading to shore Wearing a raiment of corals and sea grass And flotsam surrendered by the sea You had been in...

The Backroom Angels Bugaloo

No one, least of all her schoolmates at St. Celestina’s Academy, would have pictured Chona Laon Badoy as the Mayor of San Semilla in...

Workers’ coalition calls on government to extend urgent legal assistance to undocumented Filipinos in the U.S.

This week, leaders of the NAGKAISA Labor Coalition met with representatives from the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) in Manila to discuss, among...

Tears for Sparta

Sparta, thank youfor being my faithful friendI am not your masterYou are my teacherFor you taught me to smilewhen inexplicable sorrows came byYou are...

The Birth of Zaroasther

They connived with the dark shadows, the family who lived in a house full of glass windows and graven saints. Toraja invited me to...