Bird Feed

Who needs saving?

May 2, 2026

There are details you won’t find in reports and statistics—you only see them when you visit the community, so touch grass, be with the people.

Immersing in the community and experiencing their daily condition is a valid research methodology called ethnography. It is an in-depth study of a community to form a deeper analysis of their daily life, patterns, and relationships to bigger contexts. Even other methods, such as participant observation, process documentation, life story, fact-finding mission, and the like, require a modicum of community integration.

Bakit kasi kayo nandyan?

April 29, 2026

Maliit na bahagi lang ito ng Negros. Marami pang pwedeng pag-aralan at isulat tungkol sa isla. Kaya huwag ka nang magtataka kung bakit may mga researchers, journalists, at advocates na pumupunta sa mga liblib na lugar sa rehiyon.

Balikatan drills add to coastal hardship amid oil crisis

April 28, 2026

The government continues to expand military cooperation under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, pursuing deeper defense alignment with the US and foreign troop presence while failing to deliver urgent economic relief. This is reinforced by initiatives such as Pax Silica, positioned as an “economic security zone” to support US-linked supply chains. Together, these reflect a broader push to integrate the Philippines into US strategic and economic interests in the Indo-Pacific.

#SiomaiSupport

April 27, 2026

Paanong nagawa ng sikat na restawran na may mahigit 80 branches sa buong bansa ang ganito sa kanilang mga manggagawa? Hindi dapat ganoon na lang ang pagtrato ng mga kompanya sa mga taong lumilikha ng halaga.

Watt a burden

April 26, 2026

What is the government doing? Despite President Marcos Jr’s Executive Order 110 declaring a “state of national energy emergency”, on March 24, it’s business as usual for oil, energy, and electricity firms. The government, meanwhile, just continues with the 12% value-added tax on electricity, adding to the burden of the majority who are already financially struggling, while power firms profit from the crisis.

To be Aling Sisa

March 19, 2026

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I know that many Aling Sisas off the screen and from our generation would rise up and would refuse to back down.

EDSA@40: Reclaimed democracy or elite continuity?

March 2, 2026

EDSA restored elections and civil liberties, but it did not uproot the economic and institutional forces that concentrate power.

Walang Usad

February 18, 2026

Nagbabayad naman tayo ng buwis nang tama, pero tayo rin ang nagbabayad sa mga maling desisyon ng pamahalaan. Hindi sana tayo nagdudusa sa ngayon at namamatayan ng mga pangarap sa traffic.