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Inflation burden heavier on millions amid lack of gov’t action

May 5, 2026

The burden of adjusting to the oil price shocks has been shifted onto over 21 million poor and vulnerable Filipino families. The government’s refusal to cut oil taxes and regulate prices reflects a policy failure that leaves the majority to fend for themselves amid a deepening crisis.

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.

Researcher, pero nasa bundok?

April 29, 2026

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.

A fertilizer crisis unfolds

April 27, 2026

Are we headed to the inevitability of food insecurity or famine from a war that is not of our own making but brings the heaviest toll on us? More expensive fuel and fertilizer should not be a threat if only the Philippine government protects the domestic economy, local food production, and the direct food producers—the farmers and fisherfolk.

#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.