Minerva Jane San Miguel

Who’s to blame for our bad manners?
Another look at education

August 19, 2026

Instead of addressing the education crisis, the Marcos Jr government is simply fixated on mass-producing a labor force tailored to the needs of the global market.

A vow to the pangi tree

August 10, 2026

The pangi tree will bear fruit again and again, season after season, long after those who sought to silence the forest are gone.

Where does the fire come from?

June 5, 2026

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An urban poor community may be razed to the ground. But the urban poor’s long history of relentless struggle almost always ignites a flame that carries on until people’s development is realized.

Reframed curriculum: A worrisome guide for market-ready and nation-blind Filipinos

May 19, 2026

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Education continues to be reduced to a factory floor, where classrooms function as production lines processing students into the future workforce of global supply chains.

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.

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.

Medicines are next

March 30, 2026

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At face value it may sound like a gentle reminder that prevention is better than cure, but it screams a harder truth: Filipinos cannot afford to be sick.