Ipinaskil noong Nobyembre 29, 2007 ni S3lv0
This morning I woke up at around 4:30 and my body felt like it is made of lead. Di ko halos magalaw ang aling bahagi ng katawan ko na walang sakit na naramdaman. Bakit? Dahil kahapon nagkaroon ako ng pagkakataon lumakad kasama ng mga Sumilao farmers mula sa Tiaong, Quezon hanggang sa Los Banos, Laguna.
Ang [...]
Inihanay sa: My Space | Minarkahan: MAPALAD, sumilao farmers, walk for land | 7 Puna »
Ipinaskil noong Nobyembre 26, 2007 ni S3lv0
Poetry doesn’t belong to those who write it, but those who need it.
These aren’t my words, its a line from the script of Il Postino – an Italian language movie that was released in 1994. One of the first gifts Fay gave me was a book of poems by Pablo Neruda – Twenty Poems of [...]
Inihanay sa: My Space | Minarkahan: il postino, pablo neruda, poetry | 12 Puna »
Ipinaskil noong Nobyembre 19, 2007 ni S3lv0
Over the past three years, we have witnessed how this administration imposed its will and its self-serving designs without regard for the law, morals and simple delicadeza. We have witnessed how it used its sheer number to drown and silence witnesses that would discredit the administration in any investigation [...]
Inihanay sa: Politics | 3 Puna »
Ipinaskil noong Nobyembre 17, 2007 ni S3lv0
I was surfing the online news sites the other night when I came across this breaking news report at www.inquirer.net which tells the story of a shootout between the police and a group of suspected Abu Sayyaf members (3 Suspected Abu Sayyaf Killed). The news article reports about the raid that the PNP conducted in [...]
Inihanay sa: Politics | 5 Puna »
Ipinaskil noong Nobyembre 14, 2007 ni S3lv0
Last night’s bombing of the House of Representatives really made me feel numb and desperate. As I watched the news coverage of ANC, I drifted from a state of shock, anger, desperation and frustration. Actually ang hirap ilarawan ang aking naramdaman. I know the South wing very well, I walked its halls everyday a couple [...]
Inihanay sa: AKBAYAN stuff | 10 Puna »
Ipinaskil noong Nobyembre 9, 2007 ni S3lv0
****Today I am posting an article I co-wrote for the Carnegie Council Ethics in International Affairs 7 years ago about the plight of the Mapalad Farmers . I wrote this article after the Supreme Court decided with finality to uphold the conversion of the 144-hectare land that was awarded to the Mapalad farmers of [...]
Inihanay sa: AKBAYAN stuff | Minarkahan: agrarian reform, Akbayan, mapalad farmers, sumilao, walk for land | 5 Puna »
Ipinaskil noong Nobyembre 8, 2007 ni S3lv0
What pushes an 11-year old girl to commit suicide? What squeezed the last drop of hope from a Grade 6 pupil that she despaired so much and hanged herself? Mariannet Amper said poverty did.
At the very center of today’s Inquirer front page is the story of Mariannet Amper, an 11 year old girl from [...]
Inihanay sa: AKBAYAN stuff | 28 Puna »
Ipinaskil noong Nobyembre 1, 2007 ni S3lv0
Happy Halloween mga kapatid!!! Gusto kong magpahinga muna sa mga usaping pulitika para lang naman maiba at di nakakasawa. At dahil gusto kong makibagay, ang topic ko ngayon ay multo.
Naniniwala ba kayo sa multo? Ito ang tanong na umiikot ngayon sa opisina namin ni Taroogs at ito ay hindi dahil sa Halloween pero dahil may [...]
Inihanay sa: AKBAYAN stuff | 13 Puna »