When I think of Imee Marcos, I always remember the 21-year-old student-activist Archimedes Trajano. He was a student of Mapúa Institute of Technology. Archimedes—or “Archie” as he was known to his classmates—is remembered by history as the student who questioned Imee’s appointment as director of the Kabataang Baranggay in a forum on August 31, 1977. Hours later, Archie’s body was found lifeless- beaten black and blue along a street in Manila. His parents were told he got into a fight with dorm mates. But it was easy to connect the dots. While Archie is just one of the thousands who disappeared, imprisoned, tortured, even killed under the Marcos dictatorship, his murder remains a gruesome reminder of what the dictator and his family—including Imee—are capable of doing

Kian Loyd Delos Santos lived a simple life—at least that’s what his friends told me when I asked them about him a year ago. A Grade 11 student, he never got into trouble at school and (upon returning home), Kian would man his family’s school supplies store until midnight. He would’ve been in his last year at senior high now. The third of four siblings, he would’ve been a year closer to his dream of becoming a policeman and lifting his family out of poverty.

Our mythologies have always been sewn into the fabric of our culture. Tales of diwatas and aswangs have mesmerized generations of Filipinos even today. It’s our own culture translated into fiction passed down for centuries. So when a Filipino fan tweeted prolific American writer Neil Gaiman to take a stab at retelling these tales —the only thing we can ask was “why?”

Every day, we consume more than a few things: food, drinks, clothes, services like public transport and the internet. But if you’ve been scrolling your Twitter feed lately, you might have seen certain hashtags calling for boycotts on popular brands and companies. A lot of the things we get to consume come from the sweat and tears of millions of waiters, jeepney drivers, and factory workers. “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” remember that alt-right meme? Well, if we focus on how this country treats its workers like garbage, we’re living that meme right now.

Workers, youth leaders and journalists were among the individuals arrested at the NutriAsia workers’ strike following a violent dispersal led by the combined forces of the condiment company’s security personnel and the Meycauayan City police earlier this afternoon. Immediately following an ecumenical service for 300 NutriAsia workers and supporters, around 100 police and NutriAsia security personnel proceeded with the dispersal at around 3 p.m. by closing in on the picket line, hitting proteste

The University of Santo Tomas Office for Student Affairs suspended the recognition of new student organizations for the new school year but did not state any particular reason MANILA, Philippine – The University of Santo Tomas Office for Student Affairs (OSA) has suspended the recognition of new student organizations. In a memorandum dated April 3. OSA said it would not accredit new student organizations for school year 2018-2019, but did not state any particular reason. The memorandum said t

Journalists were also among the thousands who marched along Commonwealth Avenue yesterday for the United People’s SONA as they slammed the spate of killings of journalists and President Rodrigo Duterte’s attacks on the media. “Mula noon, 12 na sa hanay namin ang napapatay,” National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Chair Nonoy Espina told the crowd during the protest. Espina claimed that this number is the largest number of journalist killings within the first two years of any pr

The University once again suspended classes and office work in anticipation of today’s transport strike against the Department of Transportation (DOTr)’s jeepney modernization program. Today’s strike marks the first for the year, and the third against the program since it was launched by the DOTr June last year. Despite the protests, the wheels of the modernization program—which has been proposed since 2016—are already in motion as the government already began rolling out the “more convenient,

The University once again suspended classes and office work in anticipation of today’s transport strike against the Department of Transportation (DOTr)’s jeepney modernization program. Today’s strike marks the first for the year, and the third against the program since it was launched by the DOTr June last year. Despite the protests, the wheels of the modernization program—which has been proposed since 2016—are already in motion as the government already began rolling out the “more convenient,

Last April, the story of a particular “Lucia Joaquin” made rounds on Facebook. The crudely-written story, almost entirely in the form of a chat exchange, details an online interaction between a certain Enzo Cruz and Lucia Joaquin, whom he just added on Facebook. Their conversation starts off innocuously: Lucia flirts with Enzo, and Enzo willfully obliges with Lucia’s request for pictures, even requesting that they take a picture together despite the fact that they had just known each other. L