Let it be known

handful that you’ve been lucky enough to experience everything with. They’re it, they’re them, and everything’s good.

There will be no other time like this. Enjoy it. Simultaneously, there will be so many other times like this. Cherish every single one of them.

Labor rights continued to be circumvented through contractualization. Unsustainable resource extraction practices are still overlooked. The rich got richer and the poor got slightly less poor. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index and GDP figures, touted as indicators of development, felt like baldfaced lies. They were not seen as proof of success but served as another reminder of the broken promises of 1986 for social and economic justice.

I do not contest the fact that there have been failures, but so often do people blindly complain about the neoliberal system that has brought emancipation for so many, all in the guise of indignation. Keyboard warriors