Entries by Kodao Productions
REVIEW: Political comedy as symptomatic of what’s wrong after EDSA
THE FIRST PEOPLE POWER uprising gave Filipinos a phenomenon that, ironically, is a symptom of its failures. The ouster of the strongman Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 gave rise to local political comedy that burst out from the gates with the likes of the IBC 13’s Sic O’clock News and ABS-CBN’s Abangan ang Susunod na Kabanata. For […]
Kontra Daya 2016 starts campaign for credible elections
Convenors and members of the citizens’ election watchdog Kontra Daya trooped to the Commission on Elections last March 7 to press the poll body to hold a clean, peaceful and orderly elections. When elections in the Philippines have been automated in the 2010 and 2013, Kontra Daya had been instrumental in documenting many cases of […]
TV5 workers buck wage increase moratorium
RANK AND FILE media employees are being left out as a giant media network is posed to earn many millions in political advertisements in this year’s national elections. The ABC Employees’ Union (ABCEU) is protesting the offer of a “guaranteed” P1,500 per regular employee per month over three years in their ongoing collective bargaining negotiations with […]
STREETWISE: Letter to a grandson on “people power” and revolutionary change by Carol Pagaduan-Araullo
(Photo from Bulatlat.com) Streetwise Dear Grandson, I thought I would write to you and try to explain what EDSA I was all about. The idea came up with all the recent talk about how your parents’ generation does not understand, much less appreciate, what happened thirty years ago, at the “people power” uprising that brought […]
EDSA 1 anniv: Militants still fighting BP 880 after 31 years
The Philippine National Police’s efforts to block progressive groups from holding a rally at the EDSA Shrine last February 25’s commemoration of People Power 1’s 30th anniversary smacks of Martial Law tactics. This was the complaint aired by the newly-formed Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses in Malacañang (CARMMA) as it led thousands […]
EDSA 30th – people’s rage
On the 30th anniversary of the EDSA People Power, demonstrators led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) and affiliates of the Philippines chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS-Phils) broke through layers of police and army phalanx to assert national freedom and democracy and say no to another Marcos.
Enraged protesters push back police at EDSA 30th anniv commemoration
Enraged by the unexplained decision to prevent them from commemorating the 30th anniversary of the People Power uprising, militant groups overpowered the Philippine National Police to reach the EDSA Shrine at the corner of the famous thoroughfare and Ortigas Avenue. Waiting their turn after the official program led by President Benigno Aquino this morning, the […]
UCCP, Lumad accuse Philippine Army and Alamara of burning Haran
MANILA–United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) bishops expressed outrage at the arson attack against their church compound at Haran, Davao City where hundreds of Lumad evacuees have sought refuge early morning of Wednesday, February 24. UCCP general secretary general Bishop Reuel Marigsa said they are angry and worried over the apparent arson that […]
STREETWISE: Legacy of EDSA “People Power” by Carol Pagaduan-Araullo
Streetwise The reputation of the EDSA “People Power” uprising has been getting a beating these past thirty years, especially with an EDSA Dos and even a so-called EDSA Tres following the original phenomenon. Criticisms range from valid to outlandish. That it merely installed another corrupt, elitist regime and brought back, or even worsened, the ills […]