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August 14, 2022

Badoy, Banned Books, and the Marcos Challenge

Every day, I spend a good hour on a Tiktok algorithm that I’ve nurtured since last year, when the election campaign began and I realized that the Marcos campaign was releasing videos and photographs from the old man Marcos years......

August 14, 2022

The Plight of Homeless Animals

The number of homeless animals is increasing by the day, especially since the pandemic began. Pets are either abandoned in rural areas or on the streets, left alone in empty homes, or given to animal shelters....

August 14, 2022

Walden Bello Speaks Out After Arrest

My case must be seen in the context of thousands of cyber libel cases — I think the estimate is 4,000 — that have been launched by politicians against their opponents over the last few years....

August 13, 2022

The Monkeypox Epidemic Is Unusual: Here's How I Know

Is Monkeypox considered a Sexually Transmitted Infection? Sorry, but it's worse....

August 12, 2022

"Drop Charges Against Walden Bello" — Greenpeace

Greenpeace is calling for the charges against him to be dropped, and for the government to stop the harassment of rights and justice advocates....

August 10, 2022

Philippine Activist Arrested for Cyber-libel

As the United Nations Human Rights Committee stated in its general comment on freedom of expression, “imprisonment is never an appropriate penalty” for defamation....

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Badoy, Banned Books, and the Marcos Challenge

The Plight of Homeless Animals

Walden Bello Speaks Out After Arrest

The Monkeypox Epidemic Is Unusual: Here's How I Know

"Drop Charges Against Walden Bello" — Greenpeace

Philippine Activist Arrested for Cyber-libel

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