The reviews are in: Heneral Luna is a great film, everybody should watch it, it will satisfy students, teachers, history enthusiasts, fans of Philippine film, fans of film in general, everyone.
It has been nothing if not a horrific past two weeks for lumad communities across eastern Mindanao.
There are more fitting tributes for those whom the Kadayawan wishes to celebrate.
And I truly hope that the UP Diliman administration feels the same way, even if only privately, given their lackluster explanation to the media and their pooh-poohing of the protests.
In this light, Catamco’s speculated surgery takes on a different significance. An alleged nose-lift is no longer simply an alleged nose-lift; it is, quite literally, the embodiment of the break from, or rejection of, our autochthonous conditions as Filipinos, of which the lumad are commonly seen to represent.
Sagot ni Rizal, aba’y natural lamang ito! Nagpapakita pa nga ito ng mas progresibong pagtinging ng mga Pilipino sa mga relasyon ng mga kasarian.
There are dozens of things that could be considered questionable, problematic, and even incredible (in the not-credible, or with no scientific basis, sense) with the Aquino government’s K to 12 program, and so, where to start?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – this would be a very apt description of the Mary Jane Veloso episode.
Bibiaon remembers a childhood and early adulthood of relative ease.
She had been lying down on a mat in the corner of the one-room hut that could be reached only after a precarious uphill motorcycle ride on rocky terrain and a twenty-minute trek on foot, somewhere near the headwaters of the Davao River.
