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#FiringSquadforCeliaVeloso: New low for PH journalism
I almost do not want to type the words #FiringSquadforCeliaVeloso. It brings for me an avalanche of shame and anger—shame for my countrymen, who have seemingly lost all sense of decency, and anger at, well, almost everything that brought Mary Jane Veloso to the brink of death and moved sympathizers around the world to act […]
‘Let us not let them down again’ | Monique Wilson on Nanay Celia Veloso
(Yesterday, May 1, the day the Veloso family arrived back in Manila after a successful worldwide campaign to secure a stay of execution of Mary Jane Veloso, Mary Jane’s mother, Celia and the Veloso family became a subject of a vicious social media “hate” campaign to discredit them and the Filipino migrants’ organization Migrante International. […]
Not The Month Of Flowers Is May
(For Labor Day and the continuing struggle of the working class) NOT THE MONTH OF FLOWERS IS MAY not the month of flowers is may or the procession of flirting queens it’s not also the month of lavish fiestas in honor of numerous venerated saints instead it’s the blood shedding of the likes of crisanto […]
STATEMENT | The people have prevailed, now heads must roll
It is with utmost jubilance that we announce to all Filipinos and supporters here in the Philippines and around the world that the Indonesian government has suspended the implementation of the death sentence on our kababayan Mary Jane Veloso until all proceedings in the Philippines is finished. We express our most heartfelt joyous solidarity with […]
Tayo si Mary Jane
Literal na binibilang natin ang oras bago bawian ng buhay ng gobyerno ng Indonesia si Mary Jane Veloso sa kasong drug trafficking. Hanggang sa ngayon, hindi pa rin nakikinig si Pang. Joko Widodo ng Indonesia sa panawagan hindi lamang ng kaanak ni Mary Jane at mga mamamayang Pilipino kundi ng mga mamamayan ng Indonesia at […]
No More Will I Pay You A Visit
(In memory of a departed comrade) no more will i pay you a visit on your last moments of heroic struggle against the world of grief i know now or tomorrow or on a day in this rainy month of july you’ll suddenly leave the defiant bloody struggle you’ve embraced against the exploitative ruling […]
In Juan’s Land
in juan’s land being a nationalist is a mortal sin. you might be abandoned in a shrubby lot or in some pungent dumpsites feasting on your butchered corpse with exposed brain and entrails troops of murmuring flies and crawling hungry ants. you might be lost forevermore when cemented in a drum left to rot and […]
No Woman, No Cory
Nitong nakaraang buwan, nagkaroon ako ng pagkakataong mabasa ang mga dulong bahagi ng librong State and Society in the Philippines [2005] nina Patricio N. Abinales at Donna J. Amoroso. Ang balita ko, ang librong ito – na nalimbag nang may papuri ng mga bantog na akademikong sina Paul D. Hutchcroft at Felipe B. Miranda, ng […]
Panalanging Lampoon
Isinulat noong 1500 BC ang Rigveda, ang pinakamatandang banal na kasulatan na tumipon sa mga himnong Sanskrit. Tagapag-ingat nito ang mga Brahman. Ang mga Brahman ay kapwa pari at makata. * * * Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that. – Prayer, Galway Kinnell * […]