in less than 24 hours, armed ucpd officers were surveilling sleeping students of color and white supremacists threatened the asian american studies center, declaring they would hold a rally on campus. (1/2)
After Priyanga Amarakesare criticized department and colleagues for their racism, a committee recommended she be censured & put on 5 years probation. Gene Block decided that wasn’t enough and put her on a 1-year unpaid suspension. https://t.co/jrMy2Hmcqs
I've seen many transport strikes in my lifetime. As an elementary student, I experienced walking several kilometers to school because no rides were available. This week's transport strike reminded me of those days. The effect was more felt this time than in previous years.
in light of @ASME1963 noms dropping here is, once again, the extended critique of That Feature that @Kleekamp and i reported + wrote https://t.co/w5ACKxrFRr
To reduce EDSA people power simply as a "non-violent" march that toppled down the Marcos dictatorship is also a distortion to our own history
It disregards the thousands of lives lost and sacrificed, both in an armed and unarmed struggle, against the dictatorship
The people po
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WHAT WAS DONE TO CHAD BOOC AND NEW BATAAN 5?
[based on autopsy by Dr. Raquel Fortun, top Filipino forensic pathologist]
TW: Graphic description of wounds, injuries
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Chad Booc was NOT KILLED IN ACTION. KIA means that someone was killed because they were involved in a firefight.
Chad Booc was MURDERED. Based on pictures shamefully paraded by the AFP, it is likely that he was even TORTURED and his dead body MUTILATED.
NAPAKASAHOL NG AFP.
Some bombing images purported to be from Ukraine are actually from Palestine.
If these images are moving us to action and sympathy for Ukraine — and provoking the US to impose aggressive sanctions on Russia — they should do the same for Palestine and Israel, respectively.
us liberals have learned absolutely nothing from the political and cultural conditions that made the iraq war possible. a grave tragedy that the rest of the world continues to reap its consequences.
‘imperialism’ wasn’t even a widely recognized, understood, or used word amongst liberals a year or two ago. now, it is a part of all of their vocabulary. adaption and co-optation happening in real time.