Responsibility for the escalating armed conflict in Mindanao should be laid squarely on the US-backed Arroyo regime. The Arroyo regime, with US instigation and support, negotiated in bad faith and raised the expectations of the Moro people

The real and most urgent and serious problem confronting the country and the Filipino people is not the MILF and the armed conflict in Mindanao but the Arroyo government. And it even had the gall to try to perpetuate itself in power beyond 2010 by calling for charter change, using the MOA-AD as an excuse.

May mga araw kasing sa pagpasok sa pagawaan o sa paglabas, ang mga manggagawang babae ay pinapapila upang humalik, o mahalikan, ni Mr. Ong. Kuwento pa ng isang manggagawa, puwersadong kinuha ni Mr. Ong ang kanyang kamay at sinubukang ipahawak ang kanyang ari minsang siya ay lasing.

Araw-araw na hinaharas at minomolestya ng may-ari ang mga manggagawang kalakhan ay babae; todo-todo na nga ang pagsasamantala sa mababang pasahod, kahindik-hindik pa ang inaabot na pagsasamantala bilang kababaihan.

It was probably the largest anti-Arroyo youth mobilization I’ve been to. Thousands of students from dozens of high schools, colleges and universities in Metro Manila, including several hundreds from UP Diliman, converged at Plaza Miranda and marched together towards Mendiola to air the youth’s collective and justified grievances against the Arroyo administration.

Sa mga ordinayong pamilyang Pilipino, edukasyon ang nagsisilbing pinakamahalagang pamana na maaaring ibigay ng isang magulang sa kanyang anak. Ito raw ang susi para magkaroon ng magandang trabaho at makaangat sa buhay.

Subalit para sa karamihan ng kabataang Pinoy, ang kagustuhang mag-aral at makapagtapos ay mananatiling pangarap na lamang.

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Pagdating namin sa kanila, una naming naka-kuwentuhan si Nanay. Ayon sa kanya, inihatid pa niya si Ambo sa istasyon ng bus noong araw na pagbabarilin ng mga elemento ng militar ang kanyang anak. Pagdating niya sa bahay, nakatanggap siya ng mensahe sa kanyang cellphone na nagpapabalik sa kanya sa istasyon.

The banner headline of the Philippine Daily Inquirer today caught me off-guard. “GMA: No to Tuition Hike.” What a spin that was!

It was simply that, a press gimmick. What makes her statement entirely preposterous is that in the first place, it is her administration’s long standing policy to direct state colleges and universities (SUC’s) to tighten their belts and increase fees and other self-generating income procedures (Long Term Higher Education Development Plan 2010). It was also her administration’s directive policy to lift the tuition increase cap on private educational institutions, hence opening the floodgates of incessant increases in tuition across the country. It’s because of her why tuition and other fees have been increasing rampantly the past years.

“Ngayong ako ay guro na, at kapag ako ay nag-require ng ganitong unang theme paper sa Hunyo, mapapangiti ako kapag may nagsulat na nag-integrate silang mga estudyante sa komunidad, pabrika at kanayunan. Nag-aral, nagbigay ng pag-aaral, tumalakay sa pambansang kalagayan. Pumuna sa sarili. Nagtasa at nagplano.

Ito ang makabuluhang summer vacation.”