We beg to differ.
I went through the liberation theology subject during my last college year at Ateneo (1996-97). We got immersed in an Aeta reservation in Bataan for a few days. It’s an attempt to make us “privileged” students aware of the plight of poorer people in remote areas, with the part-expectation that we would return and try…
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There really is something fundamentally wrong with the way Filipino kids are being educated. We are made to believe, for example, that campus “activism” represents the pinnacle of student life, to the extent that medals are hung on students who express their “dissent” by walking out of class and participating in street rallies. Challenged as…
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Pro ABS-CBN activists need to come up with better arguments to support their favourite mass media network. Notice how ABS-CBN supporters are making narratives out of how they and their families here and abroad are so attached to their favourite shows from the network and how it has helped them cope with life? That’s all…
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The reaction of opponents against the decision then of President Duterte to move tambays (derived from “stand-bys” or loitering freeloaders) off the streets included attempts to de-stigmatize tambays. They say things like “not all tambays are crooks” or “being tambay is not wrong.” But these are not really true because increased number of tambays has…
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With only a couple of weeks before ABS-CBN(s legislative franchise expires, there seems to be a mad scramble. I am not too sure whether it is to hammer the final nail in its coffin or to beat the dead horse. Either way, there is a mob calling for its closure that seems louder and more…
News has now gotten around that communist front IBON Foundation filed an administrative complaint against Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy among others. IBON Foundation reportedly claim that Badoy engaged in “red tagging”. Presumably, the complaint draws partly from a video showing Badoy allegedly “hijacking” the agenda of a talk show that included…
This morning Solicitor General Jose Calida filed a quo warranto petition at the Supreme Court to nullify the franchises of ABS-CBN and ABS-CBN Convergence, Inc “as they are unlawfully exercising their legislative franchises.” It would look like the final nail in the coffin of ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal. That is if we consider that a number of…
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Perhaps rightly so, Opposition partisans in the Philippines lament the way “democracy” is working for them nowadays. They lost an entire nation in the 2016 elections that catapulted former Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency today and botched a chance to gain a foothold into Congress when they suffered a catastrophic loss in…
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