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aspect of this country. No one should be equated as “hypocrite” and labeled as “salot sa lipunan.”
Glen Del
#ResistTogether: Pass SOGIE Bill
Nowadays, controversial issues are mostly involving discrimination among individuals especially to the LGBTQ+ Community. The Catholic University Ateneo De Manila
#OneBigPride gives contentious reaction from Couples for Christ Foundation for Family and Life (CFC-FFL) and other religious groups. And everyone had their fair share of opinion after
Gretchen Diez, a transwoman, has not permitted to enter into a female comfort room in mall around Quezon City. All of these signals helped to re-file an act of anti-discrimination in Congress through Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Equality Bill (SOGIE Bill) which currently have three versions filed by Sen. Risa Hontiveros, Sen. Imee Marcos and Sen. Francis Pangilinan.
SOGIE Bill seeks to protect all people—whether LGBTQ+ or not—experiencing discrimination based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. It gives you freedom to love whom you have sexual or romantic feelings; freedom on how you identify yourself regardless of what assigned to you since birth; freedom to express or show your gender by the way you dress, act, move and talk. This equality bill is for everyone, not a privilege or special rights for the member of LGBTQ+. According to Atty.
Kristine Mendoza, a lawyer who works at the office of Sen. Hontiveros, “The bill aims to prohibit discrimination on the basis of SOGIE, so even the ‘straights’ are protected by this bill.”
There are many misconceptions regarding to the bill which closes the mind of others. Some people say it is a same-sex marriage bill which
is truly misleading because nowhere in the bill mentioned about marriage equality. Also, it will not penalize people who practice religious or academic freedom; will not dictate churches on their teachings or hiring process; will not allow a change of gender-makers in birth certificate; and does not violate the rights of straight people.
The main and true objective of this equality bill is to give equal access to LGBTQ+ persons to employment, education, and social services by promoting programs for non-discrimination and diversity in schools and workplaces.
Moreover, having this kind of equality bill will empower the rights of everyone. With the SOGIE Bill, certain activities can now be declared discriminatory and you can actually file charges if any person, corporation, or organization committed such acts. Activities like promotion of stigma, denial of access to public and military services, differential treatment of an employee or a job applicant and denial of access to establishments, facilities, utilities or services are some of the violations supported by the bill. Any person, corporation, or organization found guilty of these violations can be slapped with a serious fine and penalties. By passing this bill, we can also promote justice and healthy environment for all the citizen of the country.
“This SOGIE Equality Bill does not give any special rights or any privilege to these people.
As a religious woman believe in respect and compassion,” Sister
loveallow
Neil Bryan Tibayan
On Greenlust and Turtles
Green boosts the human appetite for consumption. Sustainable marketing transforms any commercial product into an emblem of affirmation. More than its promise of offering healthier, cruelty-free alternatives, this approach to marketing sells the belief that people are doing their part—albeit trivial with its smallness—in our collective attempt at conservation (and saving the turtles!).
It feeds the human ego; relieves accountability away from the self and gifts the forebearers this artifice of faculty to point fingers, which is more often than not, directed towards the wrong evil. Green marketing compartmentalizes the burden of Climate Change into the hands of individuals, making us subconsciously carry the guilt we had so little contribution in conceiving. But as much as we are trapped in this deception; as much as we refuse to claim these age-old transgressions against the environment as our own, we as humans ultimately pride ourselves with empathy. Our tendencies are still that of restoration.
As a result of the said premise, Capitalism was able to take advantage of this emerging advocacy. It is now an everyday question of what is truly genuine to the cause. But how can we destroy such façade of goodwill when we are blinded by our own attempt at kindness; when it is impossible to weigh between the gravity of significances, say for example our precariousness between saving the turtles and excavating our ancestral land for materials used for metal straws?
In a developing Asian country like the Philippines, green consumption is a dystopian concept almost exclusive to the rich. Here are a couple of truths: plastic is an inexpensive material made from thermosetting polymers that can be morphed into anything and fossil fuel is still the primary energy source for mass production. If the Filipino struggle to make ends meet is already difficult enough, where does finding eco-alternatives find its place.
While all of these are true, Greenlust is the exact trap we should not let ourselves fall into. We must rage against the manipulation of these industries, this false dichotomy that consuming green is consummate to preservation and doing otherwise is not; that opting for environmentally-friendly products equates to loving the planet properly and doing otherwise is not. We are served this fantasy of option in order to coax us away from the bigger picture: these giant corporations messed up this Earth.
Aside from a conscious decision to withdraw support from franchises that do not observe environmentally-safe methods of production, it is important to organize and rally people into displacing these monopolies away from a decision-making position. We can sign-up petitions for the permanent reduction of global plastic use and manufacturing, disseminate information about both our individual responsibilities and the liabilities of these corporations, and liberate our society from destructive consumerism.
We love turtles—any human being capable of hate towards those cute little guys should be questioned about his moral nuances. We love polar bears—those carnivorous teddies. There is no known child that didn’t dream of exploring the Great Amazon.
We love our mountains, our islands, and our oceans too! Eco consumption is a doubleedged sword and we must be vigilant, even about the minutest of things. In the threat of the world crumbling, we must always love with accountability. Always.
FUEL RIGHTS OVER HUTS
Change cannot be achieved through drastic actions; they start with the destruction of hasty stereotypes and deprivation.
Masses use “Badjao” and “Mangyan” as names for people who acts below what is civil to the society—neglecting the fact of being insensitive to mere victims of the deprivation of natural rights the forenamed must obtain.
Fourteen percent of the country’s population is comprised of indigenous people in the Philippines. Some of the prominent ethnic groups among them are the Badjao, B’laan, Bagobo, Mangyan, Manobo, T’boli, and Teduray who justly preserve and practice every aspect of Filipino ethnic traditions through years. In forlorn, they also became the marginalized group who are deprived of sufficient support from the government.
According to Gillian Dunuan from the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, IPs in the country are frontiers to discrimination in the society, marginalization in financial authority, and disempowerment to politics.
In fact, despite the existence of
R. A. No. 8371 or the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997, they remain as pioneer victims of suppression. We are all witnesses to how they are primarily lacking access to education and even stable locations.
Moreover, the existence of rebels and other armed groups, specifically in Mindanao also forward great threats to peaceful
settlements they shall have. They have small fates to go: either viscously become victims of constant displacements and be figures of unruly discernments, or be laborers to their own lands when external investors offer deceptive economic development projects which the government itself deprives them to have.
Additionally, their selfsufficient communities are also at threats from government programs which promote modernization of farming technologies—causing the disappearance of traditional agricultural systems and apparently, the conventional livelihood of ethnic groups.
Ironic indeed—the government lacks developmental projects for the betterment of IPs, yet the activities they place into action only lead to the group’s total displacement from humanity.
A study by David E. De Vera says that the enactment of IPRA ignited a number of Non-Government Organizations and advocates working with IPs, but it also implicated a substantial growth of issues and conflicts against them.
Coherently, provision of the basic legal standards to protect Indigenous Workers covering principles of respect for indigenous and tribal peoples’ cultures, and their distinct ways of life, and their traditions and customs was even existent, yet the glaring irony is what remains empirical.
Evidently, we cannot live
by mere frontiers of effective laws with inefficient implementers—so as our IPs. More importantly, we cannot be advocates who assure securing them from being tenures to their own lands up to protecting their highest forms of rights, if the bottom line is that we treat them poorly.
We might be thinking that every person is only as special as them to deserve such kind of
pedestal treatment—but that is the base point of all of these. If the society looks at them in pure intentions of natural inclusions, they do not need covenant treaties to protect them. Let us not be as insolent as the hypocrites who planted the firmest decree to defend the people who are relentlessly victimized by their actions over time.
NON DUCOR, DUCO Katrina Malate
PEOPLE’S VERDICT: UNRESOLVED RESOLUTION
“This is justice. It was admittedly a slow process, but we have to go through it as warranted by our democratic system.”
It has been a decade since the November 23, 2009 massacre which claimed 58 lives, including 32 print and broadcast journalists on a lonely hilltop in Maguindanao. Such was the atrocity that thrust the Philippines in its secure spot on any account recorded for the single deadliest attack on journalists in the world.
Even with the savagery and the scale of its violence, it seemed the court held particularly no urge to hurry the justice to the victims, and the dilatory tactics by the defense—the audacity of the principal accused to claim such innocence for an inhumane crime they’ve committed— which caused further delay to the trial case. Ten years without just punishment for any of its perpetrators had gone far too long, and the unresolved status of this singular crime which hoist the country to its darkest international reputation marred Philippines’ deeply flawed justice system. But the wait was finally over. Or so we thought.
Ampatuan brothers
Jocelyn Solis Reyes. The case involved about 100 defendants, most of whom were acquitted by the court on December 19. That long list of those acquitted was such a disappointment and unacceptable to certain grieving families. More than 40 people were convicted, 15 of which were accessories to the crime.
And yet, of 197 accused, 80 remained at large. The suspects believed to be hiding in the south caused such continued distress not only to the families of the victims.
Their worry proved to be true when a man who had testified for the prosecution was killed in an ambush, and three other witnesses against Ampatuan dynasty had also been killed. But while the verdict on the massacre case was done and Panelo’s pronouncement that “the rule of law has prevailed”, the matter for that debate is far from over.
Tagal ko ng naghihintay ng fallback, Buti pa ang Twice dami ng comeback. Ano na? Ang feelings ko malapit ng magback-out.
Sorry kung ang mga excuse ko sa’yo ay lame.
Sorry kung masyado kong hinangad ang fame.
Sorry kung nagfocus ako sa aking ini-aim.
Ulit tayo sa umpisa, balik ko ang flame.
Galing mo namang storyteller, Talagang walang filter Hindi nauubos ang chika kahit summer
Sige na nga, Mouth for all seasons iyo ng title.
PUPian ka ate?
Sa gobyerno’y kayo’y mga nag-iinarte!
Aba naman, kami po’y marangal na estudyante, Tumahimik na po kayo, kaming mga Isko sadyang magaling makipagdebate.
Tinig mo’y anong tinis, Sadyang nakakarindi’t nakakainis.
Mananaway ng maingay, Siya naman ‘tong nangungunang Manira’t manigaw Squammy ka ghourl?
Alam mo kung ano ang sakit mo sis?
Nakakahawang malandisease!
Tigil na, ipasa muna ang thesis
Baka mamaya ika’y maging instant misis.
Kaway-kaway sayo Ms. mapagpanggap
Akala ko nung una ako’y iyong tanggap Sa maliit na problema
Biglang nag-iba?
Teh, attitude ka?
Masasambit ko na sana ang
OOng hinihintay mo
Ngunit nalaman kong ikaw pala’y nananatiling bilanggo, Nakakubli pa rin siya sa iyong puso
Gusto ko lang malaman, ako ba’y iyong panandalian?
Bakit ba sa t’wing napapatingin ako nakikita kong nakatingin ka?
Crush mo ba ako?
O crush na ba kita?
Mamser, hustiya ang aming
kailangan Requirements at projects sandamakmakan
Tapos tres kami’y bibigyan?
Uno ba’y bibigyan o sa evaluation nalang magkakasingilan?
2020 na ate ghorl si jabee ka pa rin?
Konti na lang malapit na kitang tirisin
Sana naman matuto kang ang laway ay tipirin
Talon ka ha, pagpag mo ang pagiging papansin.
Boi hindi ako manhid pero ‘di rin ako assuming
Kaya sorry ha, hanap ka ng timing
Sabihin mo ng diretso dahil
ayokong magfeeling
Yun lang, di ko bet ang tulad mong puro fling.
Sa problema lagi kang ready Kapag recitation ika’y sobrang witty
Pak na pak din ang ‘yong pagka-funny
Just wanna flex my frenny
One of a kind with natural beauty.
Oh, ser.
Grades kong anong sama
Wari’y ko’y mahika mo na naman itong walangya
Roletang grado ang almusal pati ba naman aking tanghalian?
My dinner should be served right, demand ko naman.
Teka, teka lang po sir
Pwede po bang pakisabi na rin
Time zone kung saan kayo galing
Bakit ‘yung alas syete ninyo eh alas dyes sa amin?
KAZZIE, HINDI KA TUNAY NA DRUG-ON!
Datu
Andal “Unsay” Jr. and Zaldy were convicted of 57 counts of murder and sentenced to reclusion perpetua without parole by Quezon City RTC Branch 221 presided by Judge
It was only a partial victory they bestowed to the aggrieved and their families, with the justice half-served. The ongoing endeavor they continuously fought goes on so long as the majority of the accused still be able to evade the rule of law. As long as the perpetrators of such brutal killings finally languish behind bars, we would continue to sustain vigilance.
SINUSUPORTAHAN MO BA SI DANIGURL SA PAGREBISA NG STUDENT HANDBOOK?
KAZZIE, YOU DO NOTE GRADUATE CUM LAUDE BCOZ YOUR GWA IS MA PEYK!
KAZZIE, HINDI KA MUNA PAPASOK SA ISKUL DAHIL WALA KANG PANTALON!
MANDATORY DRUG TESTING HIGHER GWA DRESS CODE POLICY
Pede namang yung mga security guard muna?!YUP. Yung safety yung concern pero kailan pa natin gagawin yan? Eliminate drugs
May budget sa pagpapa-drug test ng estudyante pero wala para sa facilities? —Kazzsxcie
High lang sa quiz pero no to Drug-on! —Kazzie
Ang order ko ay magandang facilities hindi mandatory drug testing!!!
Mandatory drug testing is #OPLANTUKHANG2.0
am not in favor of this to be included in RH Book. It is antistudent, anti-freedom inhumane. will be back with foods for you the Searcher —Sir Dan Pagtuunan ng pansin yung mga bagay na mas kailangan ng school na to!!!!
May pondo sa drug test pero walang pondo sa facilities? –XOXO
No!!! Bakit sa estudyante uumpisahan ang drug test? Bakit hindi sa government officials???
MYGHAD! HATE DRUGS!
Pabor ako. Wala namang masama kung aalamin na gumagamit ang mga estudyante o hindi.
Okay lang naman yan eh. Para malaman mong ADIK aqouh sayo! Yiiieeexzc
Tataas pa GWA, wala na ngang JOWA
Edi tanggalin muna ang roletang prof at di nagtuturo! —code
You guys being judgmental person can’t bring or have bright future. Your mentality is selfish and degrading.
1.6 GWA niyo wala kayong manners, wala rin.
Grabe ok lang, mas okay nga eh kokonti na lang kami makakapag-maintain ng GWA ng
1.60 hehe – Isko
Grabe ok lang, mas okay nga eh kokonti na lang kami makakapag-maintain ng GWA ng 1.60 hehe – Isko
Paano ka mag-work kung simpleng dress code lang ayaw mo sumunod. Kung mainit dito sa PUP bakit ang daming nakajacket No don’t, ‘wag mo na akong pigilan pa! Anong akala niyo sa sintang paaralan always winter, electric fan nga di gumagana. –deprivedsarap
Decency is SUBJECTIVE!
Huwag niyo idamay ang millennials & gen z sa trip niyong mga baby boomers!
Yes to dress code. Gurl school po kase ito so dapat po talaga proper dress. Kung wala kang pambili ng bagong damit keri lang pwede mag-ulit!
No to Higher GWA!! Di bale sana kung di namemersonal si Prof eh Pantalon – P1,000 + - P300 + sa ukay Short P20 lang sa Tanuaun #Buraot Slippers = not connected to Cognition!
Ipinanghihinayangan ni Rizal na sa Pilipinas ay mas binibigyan ng kabuluhan ang kanilang pananamit kaysa sa kanilang nalalaman #DressCode (Page 105, Buhay, Mga Ginawa at Mga Sinulat ng isang henyo, manunulat, siyentipiko at pambansang bayani)
“Let the students wear what they want to wear as long as they are confident and comfortable.
THE SEARCHER PULSO
NI ISKO
