“As it stays longers in power, the Duterte regime is turning out to be only full of empty promises.”
Month: January 2017
Sakadas bare ‘slave-like conditions’ in Hacienda Luisita
The sakadas worked from 4 a.m. until 5 p.m. for a pay way below the minimum wage of P334 per day in Tarlac. They received P9 to P128 per day due to numerous deductions.
DO168 to worsen rather than end contractualization — KMU
“We cannot accept the continued legalization of contractualization and proliferation of agencies.”
2017: Confronting the anti-environment, pro-globalization leanings of the Duterte administration
The Duterte administration has continued to subscribe to the same old, pro-foreign, pro-oligarch, anti-people and anti-environment globalization polices of the previous administrations.
The books I read in 2016
1. Open Secrets, Alice Munro. I think there is a Munro Effect: A reader is initially lulled into thinking that a storyline is dull but it is only when the short story is about to end that he finally begins to see how he is completely immersed in the Munronian world. 2. Discontent and Its…
Serious Na | Independent foreign policy
Kaya mo bang magsuot ng pantalon with no hands? Bago mo sabihing hindi, panoorin mo muna ang Episode 3 ng Serious Na: hinggil sa Independent Foreign Policy.
New nuclear arms race, martial law both perilous
Perish the thought! You’re playing a perilous game!! Verily that is the singular message addressed to both President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Donald J. Trump, the incoming president of the United States, regarding their recent statements that beclouded the holiday atmosphere: Duterte’s on removing the constitutional safeguards on declaring martial law, and Trump’s on reviving…
Arrested to force his son to surrender
“They said they would not release me until my son surfaces.”