Articles in English
Tiempo muerto amid inflation and climate change
Sugar plantation farmworkers annually suffer from tiempo muerto, “dead season” in Spanish, the months between sugarcane planting cycles. This usually lasts from June to September when “kampos” offer no jobs. In Negros, this is called “tigkiwiri” or season of suffering for 300,000 farmworkers and their families. This year, their suffering is worse amid skyrocketing prices […]
US-Marcos Jr regime's price ceiling ploy brings further problems, not solutions
Marcos Jr’s latest Executive Order 39 setting rice prices ceiling begets further problems and not solutions. It pits farmers’ interests for reasonable selling price for their produce against the interests of small traders for their wares and consumers for affordable rice while allowing cartels to continue their control. Because rice prices are forcibly lowered although […]
Open Letter to Mayor Glenda L. Villahermosa of Monreal, Masbate and all local government officials in Bikol
Greetings! We are writing to you as your fellow Filipinos extremely concerned with your stand as leader of Monreal regarding the issue of militarization and the state’s act of terrorism against your constituents. Last August, 9[th] IDPA and your office released a video attempting to explain the massacre that occurred in San Jacinto wherein the […]
The NPA never left
The banner story of a national broadsheet (Philippine Star https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/09/02/2293347/npa-launches-offensive-vs-govt-insurgency-free-quezon-province) last September 2 entitled “NPA launches offensive vs gov’t in ‘insurgency free’ Quezon province” gave a very clear picture of that momentous event in the province. The news article captured the exact contrasting image of a revolutionary guerilla front in an “insurgency free” area. The […]
High quality and mass-oriented education, not fascism
The classes have opened last week. But the deplorable situation of students, teachers and schools remain while Dep-Ed, under the helm of Sara Duterte, is in a frenzy asking for a bigger budget for fascism and corruption. Duterte proposed the P150 million confidential and intelligence funds for Dep-Ed because she believes that education and national […]