Today’s Views

Five years after the massacre of 58 men and women including 32 journalists in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao, justice remains elusive and impunity still reigns.

This gentleman who has held the reins of the BALSA is none other than Ka Francis “Bong” Morales who has tirelessly engaged the tyrant seasons’ scourges of sun and rain,relentlessly braved the storms, swam against the tide.

I could not help but recall the almost inaudible voice with which he briefed me about the role I had to play in that people’s uprising in Eastern Visayas, the seat of People Surge.

A symbolic performance act opened the Kumperensiya ng mga Disaster Survivors at 8:00 AM in Cawachsi Conference Hall in Tacloban City last November 5, two days short of the November 8 anniversary of the tragedy caused by Yolanda Supertyphoon.

A germ of anger is whispered by the wind
To the heart of the calm ocean
Where it was seeded at its deepest
And soon grew into a whirlwind,

Churning and whirling and churning

For a president conscious of his “popular” image, Noynoy Aquino’s recent appearance in Davao and Samar showed him as somewhat inaccessible.

Their leave-takings are sad, but not sayang. Never sayang.

Marili was a Mindanaoan artist immersed with the condition of martial law regime.

The Oplan Bayanihan of Noynoy Aquino as a deceptive program of “peace and development” has continuously displaced tribal inhabitants and dispossessed indigenous peoples of their ancestral domains.

Here is the inexorable reality—matagal nang nataga sa bato! (long etched on rock)— the thievery that one President does during his term has always been the same form of thievery the succeeding President does in his own time. And so on. . . and so on. . . and so on. . . ad infinitum.