Literary and Culture

The Sight of Your Soul

December 10, 2024

And so, the peoples’ lawyers are always a sight to behold, alongside the peasants, workers, indigenous people, fisherfolk, urban poor, informal settlers, and marginalized women and children

[FILM REVIEW] My Friend, the Terrorist*

December 8, 2024

Revolutionary international solidarity asserts that the terrorist designation on the late Jose Maria Sison, his comrades, and the CPP-NPA-NDF is a US-led imperialist and fascist crackdown on the people’s war for national liberation and socialism in the Philippines. Scratch the surface of the Terrorist friend, and you will find a precious comrade.

Kindness in This Season of Uncertainty

December 8, 2024

Why, in the first place, are we in this season of uncertainty/When plans are suddenly aborted to dive deep into a quicksand/Where one has no control/Realizing big brother must be hovering above…

To Do What Has to be Done

December 7, 2024

This has become a roller coaster ride/Even a child-like attitude cannot cherish/The heart bleeds and the mind crashes/If there is a moment one wants to erase from memory/This must be it.

How not Uncommon this Mockery of Justice

December 6, 2024

Because you allegedly fought with government soldiers in an encounter/Where one of them died/
In a place you have never been to/
And with the kind of fragile physique and considerable age

Papalagan

December 1, 2024

Di naman kaya natatakot ang Pangulo,/Na maungkat din ang paggasta ng pondo,/Saan ginagamit at hingan ng resibo,/Sa gayon mabatid kung ginamit ng wasto?

Sintonado

November 24, 2024

Kung kukunsintihin niyo pa,/Kapag sinabi niyo na tama,/Kung bilib na bilib sa kanya,/Kailangan mo rin ‘pakonsulta.

The truth in ‘Inside Men’

November 17, 2024

A tightly written script, albeit going back and forth in time, coupled with superb acting from Lee Byung-hu, Cho Seung-woo (Prosecutor Woo) and Baek Yoon-sik (Editor Lee), kept this movie from being the typical corruption tale that ends in the “crime does not pay” mode. It is a realistic portrayal of what ails modern society and not merely South Korea.

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