Last November 13, Pinoy Weekly’s Pher Pasion, together with two colleagues from Bulatlat.com, went to disaster-stricken areas in Leyte province to document the devastation and the people’s fight for survival amid reported delays in the government’s delivery of much-needed relief goods. In areas such as Tacloban City, Ormoc City and Tanauan, they saw how people coped with […]
In the heartland of Panay Island, within the ancestral domain of the indigenous people who call themselves, ‘Tumandok’. Photos taken after the typhoon Yolanda made its last landfall in Panay Island. Their homes, daycare centers, schools, community centers – lay in ruins. Their coffee trees and their banana trees, sources of much-needed cash in between […]
This short documentary reveals what happens when a foreign mining company enters an upland village in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. Oceana Gold, an Australian-New Zealand company started full commercial operations in Brgy. Didipio this year, under the first Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement granted under the Philippine Mining Act. This documentary shows the […]
Dahil tunay na nakakatakot para sa mga mamamayan ang sistemang pork barrel, nagsagawa ng isang costume parade na pinamagatang “Katakurakotan” ang iba’t ibang grupo’t indibidwal sa pangunguna ng #AbolishPork Movement noong Oktubre 23. Mula Rajah Sulaiman Park, nagmartsa ang daan-daang mga aktibista at indibidwal patungong Senado sa CCP Complex, Pasay City. At dahil malapit na ang Kanluraning holiday […]
Mindanao-based alternative media group Kilab Multimedia posted these photos of the lumad children in Compostela Valley gym who were among the evacuees from Brgy. Mangayon, Compostela Valley due to heavy military presence in their community: Post by Pinoy Weekly. Here is a contributed story on the Lumad bakwit: Matigsalug tribe flee due to militarization Compostela […]
Muli, noong Setyembre 21, nagprotesta ang libu-libong mamamayan sa Luneta at Mendiola, Manila. Muli, ang puntirya’y ang sistema ng discretionary funds na patuloy na pinoprotektahan ng administrasyong Aquino sa kabila ng mga pahayag nitong “ia-abolish” na ang pork barrel. Pero sa pagkakataong ito, nataon sa anibersaryo ng deklarasyon ng Batas Militar ng nasirang diktador na […]
Mas maliit man kaysa sa naunang pagtitipon noong Agosto 26, malakas pa ring inirehistro ng humigit-kumulang 15,000 katao sa Luneta ang paglaban sa pork barrel. Hindi ipinagbawal, bagkus ay hinimok pa, ng mga organisador ng #ForwardMarch ang pagdadala ng mga plakard, banners, streamers, watawat, effigy at kung anu-ano pang porma ng biswal na protesta. May mataimtim […]
In 2007, several photographers began a documentary project called SURFACING to highlight the plight of the families of the disappeared, or the desaparecidos in the Philippines. We sought to raise public awareness of this and other important human rights issues through photography and creative storytelling. Six years since this project began, the families continue to […]
This is the story of Sugar, who has fading memories of his father, Gabriel, and grandfather, Rogelio. Both Gabriel and Rogelio Calubad were abducted by military elements on June 2006. (2011)
Isinilang at lumaki sa Kalye Ilang-Ilang sa Pandacan, Maynila si Lydia Laborera de Castro — sa isang payak na bahay na magiging tahanan sa kanyang pamilya at kanlungan ng mga aktibista ng kanilang panahon. Dito nagsasagawa noon ng mga pagpupulong ang kanyang asawang si Saulo de Castro noong unang bahagi ng dekada ‘80, para sa […]
