Today’s View: Sweet enslavement, Part 2

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

Unknown to the Filipino people, their love for and devotion to the English language carries with it an adoration of all things and stuffs associated with the language.  Truly, we have fallen into the cultural trap of loving everything English.  Or everything that comes with the language of the Americans.

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Today’s View: Sweet enslavement

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

Maybe, the deplorable circumstance of history, making us enslaved to a foreign language and culture, would hold sway for many generations yet to come.  And this certainly constitutes one of the fundamental elements that hold back our movement forward to progress, especially to freedom from poverty.

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Today’s View: Merchants of deceit

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

The campaign is reduced to a purely ego-tripping affair, making use of advertising and marketing strategies designed for winning the contest at all costs.  It is not a venue for informing and mobilizing the people for a discernment of particular social illnesses which have been there for so long.

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IN DEFENSE. Over a thousand individuals join the 102nd International Women's Day march rally in Davao City Friday. They called for justice to all victims of extrajudicial killings as they vowed to defend their “rights, lives, livelihood and the environment." (davaotoday.com photo by Jandy Ken C. Lisondra)

Today’s View: From flower to fruition

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

Today, the relentless struggles by the current activists and revolutionaries manifest a continuing cultivation of this counter-consciousness.  It is a matter of conviction and commitment of these new and arising forces to let this counter-consciousness bloom to fullness and fruition.  The cultural activist blooms wherever he/she is planted!

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EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT. People from all walks of life exercise their right to suffrage Monday. At the Daniel R. Aguinaldo High School in Davao City, young ones and the once young, including church people, queue in line to cast their votes. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Today’s View: Post-election prattle and cackle

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

And, here is an incontrovertible truth:  All elections in a society under a state of massive poverty is never a democratic process.  It is a vicious illusion, a disgusting insult and a vile assault to human dignity.

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