While their middle-class counterparts twiddle with digital gadgets during play time, these boys get as much fun rolling a discarded wheel down a hill. Cans and stones inserted in the wheel ensure it remains upright. (Payatas Dumpsite, Quezon City) Photo by POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA (Bulatlat.com)
Day: October 27, 2012
Spiral
“Like a circle in a spiral / Like a wheel within a wheel” go the first lines of a popular song, which this Vatican Museum ramp obligingly mirrors. (Vatican City)
Gabriela says no to legalization of prostitution
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Prostitution is a highly organized exploitative system. Legalization would only give pimps, owners of prostitution dens and their customers the leverage to further exploit women as well as children and minors. – Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Women’s Party
Sachet o tingi-tinging pakete ng gitnang uri
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Hindi exaherasyon na sabihin, sachet ang pangunahing retail na kalakaran sa bansa. Ito ang nagpapaabot sa brands na makarating sa pinakamaraming bilang ng mamimili-mamamayan. At hindi koinsidental na ang pinakamaraming bilang ng mamimili at mamamayan ay nasa hanay ng mahihirap at sukdulang kahirapan. Ito ang kalakaran na ang mahihirap—na iniisip na…