Plays on Lumad, women and Martial Law stages at Bantayog
Two progressive plays on the Lumad, women and the creeping return of martial rule are being staged at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani from March 16 to 19. Produced by Tag-Ani Performing Arts Society, “Inang Lupa, Inang Bayan” are the group’s tribute to its late founder Marili Fernandez-Ilagan. Directed by Bonifacio Ilagan and Karen Gaerlan, […]
Revolutionary women’s organization celebrate NPA’s anniversary
Members of the underground revolutionary group Makabayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan (Makibaka) held a “lightning rally” last March 17 in downtown Manila to mark the coming 47th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ New People’s Army (NPA). Makibaka said it is right for women to join the revolution to emancipate themselves from […]
Migrant workers storm OWWA office
Migrant workers and their families led by Migrante stormed the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration office last March 16 to protest the agency’s inaction on the plight of stranded Filipinos abroad. Migrante says that OWWA forces them to pay for so-called protection funds for Filipino workers abroad but does nothing when needed. At the moment, hundreds […]
PODCAST: Filipino women worst off under Aquino
At a huge rally at the center of this capital city, the country’s biggest women’s organization Gabriela narrates how Filipino women suffered the most under the Benigno Aquino government. It’s secretary general Joms Salvador says that one woman is victimized by violence in the Philippines every 40 minutes. Peasant woman Celia Veloso laments the sad […]
Poe announces victory vs DQ petitions at women’s rally
Senator Grace Poe announced her victory at the Supreme Court over several disqualification petitions against her candidacy for the presidency at a huge rally at Liwasang Bonifacio last March 8. Before thousands of women and supporters gathered for the celebration of International Working Women’s Day (IWWD), Poe said that being allowed to stand for the […]
LARAWAN: International Women’s Day 2016
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 […]