Labor gets a new ally, as the Federation of Free Workers (FFW), one of the oldest existing labor federations in the country, has decided to take part in politics after years of abstention by filing for accreditation in the 2010 party-list polls at the Commission on Elections yesterday.
Vir Antonio gives as good a reason as [...]
July 31 ‘09 Bullets
Ducat goes postal; I play Double Jeopardy
I know a thing or two about losing it — and I’ve seen my share of people who are bat-shit insane — but things like these always leave me in shock: Armando Ducat Jr held almost 30 children in his day-care center hostage for close to ten hours, in protest to the current political [...]
What EDSA meant to me
At day’s end, I realized I just stayed home the whole time watching Grey’s Anatomy and playing Fallout 2. It wasn’t until I checked my cellphone that I realized that the 21st anniversary of the first People Power revolution — EDSA — had come and gone. And that’s a damn shame.
I was six when it [...]
Yet more absurdities
This absolutely blew me away. I know I should pay more attention to who’s who and what’s what, but never – ever – in a million years would I have thought that Enrile, the architect of Martial Law, was the chairman of the Senate human rights committee. That’s beyond absurd, that’s ludicrous.
It seems Enrile had [...]
