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Why is red-tagging a death threat? It maliciously blurs the distinction between civilian activists and rebel combatants to incite and justify state violence and other human rights abuses against activists.

Been thinking about my favorite Taylor Swift lyric and I've decided it's "he keeps a picture of you in his office downtown:" it's the perfect encapsulation of the Swiftian ethos

Out of 42,552,835 valid votes in the 2016 elections, 16,601,997 voted for Rodrigo Duterte while 25,950,838 did not vote for him. To put things into perspective, the number of people

Yes! This is a much-needed point to raise. As much as the Avatar universe "critiques," one of its biggest pitfalls is depicting anti-establishment movements or figures as antagonists alongside tyrannical

Our colonial education has reduced the study of José Rizal into memorizing dates and names—failing to critically look into the historical context of his time which shaped his ideas, and

Why do we need to #JunkTerrorBillNow? The lockdown alone has seen a surge of murdered human rights activists, peasant organizers and advocates, as well as farmers. All of them were

In 2016, indigenous people's groups marched to the United States embassy in the Philippines to protest the imperialist-directed militarization, development aggression and landgrabbing in their ancestral lands.The Philippine police prote

There are nuances on how police brutality and state violence operate in different societies and on how they function to maintain bourgeois order—and here, the Philippine National Police traces its

To put things into perspective, senator and former police chief Bato dela Rosa joyfully said "Sarap ng buhay! Sarap ng buhay!" on the very day Kian Loyd delos Santos was

Instead of preserving the crime scene, the police took away a crucial piece of evidence in broad daylight and later, they would supposedly find a loaded revolver without a serial

Warning: this is a graphic on-ground footage of the fatal shooting incident in Pasong Putik yesterday, currently circulating on Facebook. After the police shot the victim twice, a nearby resident

This Sarawat Atenean edit keeps popping up in my feed and ma’am I’m— ... just so we’re clear, I’m #TeamTineWives. I mean, just look at him being a cute energetic