Advocacies
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.
Borrow, Borrow More, as of June 2026
August 15, 2026
Low Real Wages, More Expensive Food, as of July 2026
August 15, 2026
National Family Living Wage, as of July 2026
August 15, 2026
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.
EPIRA@25: Power reform failure
July 29, 2026
Twenty-five years after EPIRA’s enactment, the country’s experience points to the need for a fundamentally different approach to the power sector.
Hyped economic progress at the expense of Filipinos
July 25, 2026
The Marcos Jr administration claims economic success, saying that its policies have brought the country to upper middle-income status. But this seeks to hide a deeper reality: the growth model hyped by the government has made a few prosperous at the expense of millions of Filipinos and the environment. The Marcos Jr administration vowed to […]
Increasing food import dependence
July 21, 2026
Increasing food dependency ratio is a sign of shrinking capacity to feed ourselves. This is not an accident. It’s an outcome of decades of neglect of PH agriculture.
