On Thursday, June 4, 2020, amidst the resistance and outrage to the anti-terror bill which feared majority that it might be solely used by the government against its critics and opposition. Mocha Uson, Deputy Administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), has struck once again by tagging the #JunkTerrorBillNow protesters as ‘terrorists’ – the thing that Filipinos are most worried about the bill. Uson’s now-deleted the tweet that pertained to the various youth groups picketed at the University of the Philippines Diliman last June 4. Her tweet was screenshot by netizens which immediately went viral – making her a...

#JunkTerrorBillNow is in this week’s top trends as the House Committee on Public Order and Safety (HCPOS) and the House Committee on National Defense and Security approved the substitute bill for Human Security Act, now the Anti-Terrorism Bill. The said bill claims to seek the prevention, prohibition, and penalization of any act that falls under its definition of terrorism. This means anyone who can be considered a threat to the state by proposing, inciting, conspiring, or participating in acts of terrorism can be incriminated. The bill was certified as “urgent” by President Duterte on Monday through a letter to House...

Ngayong Lunes, June 1, 2020, ay ganap nang sumailalim ang buong Metro Manila sa general community quarantine (GCQ) sa bisa ng kautusan ng Pangulong Duterte. Bago ang tuluyang pagpapalit mula modified ECQ, ay bumuhos ang mga samu’t saring reaksyon mula sa pangambang baka magbunsod lamang ito ng lalong pagtaas ng kaso ng COVID-19 sa bansa. Tinawag ng mga netizens na “Survivor Philippines” at “Hunger games” ang tila kahihinatnan ng mga tao sa Metro Manila dahil sa banta ng pandemya at pagpapaluwag ng mga kautusan kasabay ng paglampas ng bilang ng 18,000 na kumpirmadong kaso sa bansa.   Sa kabila ng...

Today marks the 74th day since we all ordered to stay at home. Unfortunately, everything around us became uncertain. All our visions for the future have suddenly gone blurry. The number of positive cases continuously spiking up each day, no curve has been flattened yet, and the plan for mass testing is still far from reality.   Photo courtesy of Alecs Ongcal / Rappler   Metro Manila, the country’s epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic, is set for a possible transition under general community quarantine (GCQ) as the majority of the mayors have unanimously voted for it on Tuesday, May 26, 2020....

Matapos ang dalawang buwan ng enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), sumailalim na nga ang Baguio City sa general community quarantine (GCQ) na kung saan pinayagan na muling magbukas ang ilang mga serbisyo sa lungsod ngunit bago pa man ito, naging usap-usapan ang naging mahusay na pamamaraan at pamamalakad ng siyudad na ito. Sa buong Pilipinas, Baguio City na nga siguro ang pinakadisiplinadong lugar sa pagharap sa krisis ng COVID-19. Ilan sa mga nakabibilib na aksyong ginawa ng lungsod ay gumawa ng ingay sa social media at maging ilan nga ay nag viral pa.   DISTANCING DISCS O THE “CIRCLES OF LIFE”...