Tag: activism

Meeting the parents: #JusticeForKian no longer lies with Duterte’s critics

August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 FallenAngel 4 Comments

The problem with how president Rodrigo Duterte’s critics have approached opposition to the anti-drug campaign is that they assert a few things that they have yet to prove a definitive causal link to: a) that the killings are state-sanctioned, and; b) that Duterte himself has encouraged impunity. So when the death of the young Kian…

Crime, Government, Politics

#JusticeForKian campaign outed as a sham after Duterte meeting with Kian’s parents

August 28, 2017August 29, 2017 benign0 27 Comments

Suffice to say, news that that the parents of the late Kian delos Santos, Saldy and Lorenza, met with President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacanang knocked the wind right out of the sails of an Opposition campaign to demonise the Philippine leader. A tweet fielded by a certain JR Castillo encapsulates the collective dismay of a…

Crime, Government, Politics

No celebrated Filipino national hero died fighting

August 28, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

It’s been more than a year into the presidency of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and the Opposition remains a ragtag clique of whiney self-described “temperamental brats” who agree on only one thing: What the Philippines should not be. To be more precise, the Opposition are united around a conveniently-simplified notion that the Philippines should not…

Culture, Society

Filipinos shrieking #JusticeForKian are turning Kian Loyd Delos Santos into a sad political agenda

August 19, 2017 benign0 15 Comments

The tragedy that befell 17-year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos allegedly in the hands of Philippine police officers is truly an outrage. No kid deserves to die that way. And so it is, like in any society that aspires to be a truly just and modern one, imperative that justice be sought for the wrongful death…

Crime, Culture, Politics, Society

Here’s why ‘accreditation’ of bloggers and social media ‘practitioners’ is a ridiculous idea

August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

Across the political spectrum, Filipinos still completely miss the point of social media and the so-called “free market of ideas” it represents. The latest project of Malacanang allowing “bloggers with a following of more than 5,000 to cover presidential events” is attracting a lot of questions. Unfortunately, true to form, all the questions being asked…

Media

Filipino feminists like Risa Hontiveros had abandoned Mrs Patricia Bautista

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

In most modern 21st Century liberal democracies, victims of rape and harassment are encouraged to blow the whistle on their abusers. After all, abusers won’t be punished unless someone points the police and the justice system in the right direction to make resolution happen. Feminists, in particular, are supposedly in full solidarity with their females-in-arms….

Politics, Society

Organisers of street protests in the Philippines viewed as freeloaders and moochers

July 31, 2017July 18, 2022 Ilda 10 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent State of the Nation Address brought to the public’s attention the leaders of protest rallies in the country. A lot of people have noticed that some of those who organise rallies against incumbent Presidents have been the same people doing it for decades. Members of the public are simply tired…

Civics, Culture, Society

Mae Paner a.k.a. Juana Change cannot win against the Philippine Army and Mocha Uson

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

The “debate” on whether it is right that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) plans to sue shock “activist” Mae Paner (a.k.a. “Juana Change”) for disrespecting the uniform continues to rage. Paner donned a military costume as part of a “protest” spectacle she staged during the second State of the Nation Address delivered by…

Culture, Media, Politics