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https://twitter.com/DavaoToday/status/1018764083460362240 https://twitter.com/DavaoToday/status/1019231746531790848 https://twitter.com/prwc_info/status/1019904102757740545 There's really not much more that I can say except to try and summarize further: The Lumads are a group of indigenous people living in Mindanao. They've been harassed by the military for a long time now, but it's intensified under Duterte and his declaration of martial law over that entire southern island, and two days ago there was a large-scale evacuation of their communities after they couldn't live anymore with being under a veritable blockade from their own homes and farm-plots. And the reason why they're being pushed around like this is that they're sitting on some prime mining and logging spots.
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gonna try to update this with protest art that I see for today's heavily-protested State of the Nation address https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1021245214998986752 https://twitter.com/gmanews/status/1021243523889156096 https://twitter.com/patriciativs/status/1021255870166913024 "Abolish the Regional Wage Board", referring to how minimum wage in the country is set on a regional basis, rather than nation-wide "Duterte stands against the workers!" "End the practice of contractualization!" "Raise wages!" gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 05:53 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/gmanews/status/1021295241779793920 https://twitter.com/raffytima/status/1021293064885686273 https://twitter.com/teddycasino/status/1021252255633235968 https://twitter.com/FMOrellanaINQ/status/1021219970254962688 burning effigies always draws out the pearl-clutchers crowing about "rowdy protesters adding to air pollution" and "not cleaning up their messes"
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concurrent with the State of the Nation Address is that this morning, the current Speaker of the House, Pantaleon Alvarez, was ousted from his position by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the former President who became a Congressman in her post-presidency and previously Alvarez's Deputy Speaker. it looks like the Alvarez made too many enemies: * in 2016, when Congress was trying to pass a bill re-implementing the death penalty, Alvarez removed the committee assignments and positions of every congressman that voted against it, including Arroyo's, who seems to have a personal interest in the matter, since the death penalty was abolished during her presidency * Alvarez, who hails from Mindanao, also got into a nasty fight with one Antonio Floirendo, the scion of another Mindanaoan oligarchy (who made their money in the 70s after being given huge tracts of land by Ferdinand Marcos). Floirendo bankrolled something like half of Duterte's campaign funding, so this was yet another rift in the Duterte-allied coalition * finally, when Sara Duterte, Rodrigo's daughter, formed a new political party to subsume some other nominal Duterte allies that Alvarez had eased out of the PDP-Laban (Duterte and Alvarez's current party), Alvarez also picked a fight with her when rumors started flying that Sara might be running for higher office in 2019 and could even potentially challenge Alvarez for the Speakership if she won a seat the confluence of all these things presumably turned off enough people that Arroyo was able to launch a veritable legislative coup in the morning hours before the joint session of Congress to receive the President's address it's unclear how this is going to change the legislative agenda
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drat I came here to make jokes about extrajudicially executing god and was seemingly tricked into learning really interesting stuff about the state of the Philippines - thank you for the informative posts and good luck destroying the bad man.
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to be a good communist party you have to be communist in name only
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https://twitter.com/prwc_info/status/1023937997799084039 thread about a violent strikebreaking incident that happened yesterday
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http://bulatlat.com/main/2018/07/30/13-arrested-scores-wounded-cops-guards-disperse-nutriasia-picketline/ https://twitter.com/bulatlat/status/1024214245104181248  
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See ppl talk poo poo on Spacey but I'm like ehhh, Usual Suspects tho. Yet wherever S Baldwin sticks his dumb mug is like a third world country, even if it's in LA. Glad to see he's still makin' friends in the west.
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https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines/status/1025349750453719040quote:Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 3) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that he had another conversation with "his god," this time about extrajudicial killings. gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 14:05 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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get that OUT of my face posted:the philippines and italy are proving that america can't even do fascism right
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get that OUT of my face posted:the philippines and italy are proving that america can't even do fascism right http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/14/18/duterte-prefers-military-junta-over-robredo 
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Antonio Trillanes IV was a former officer in the Philippine Navy. In 2003, he was part of the Oakwood Mutiny, an abortive coup launched by him and some 300 men in protest over the rampant corruption in the Philippine military during the Arroyo administration. The mutiny was put down and Trillanes and the rest of the mutineers were detained. He ran in the 2007 midterms as a Senator, and won despite being in detention, running his campaign mostly on word of mouth and an insurgent social media platform (Friendster). He petitioned to be allowed to attend Senate sessions, though this was blocked by the judiciary despite several legal and public appeals. In late 2007, Trillanes and his Oakwood co-conspirators walked out of a judicial hearing they were in, holed up in yet another hotel, this time the Peninsula Manila, and again appealed to the public to rise up and oust President Arroyo. They were once again surrounded by troops and were forced to surrender. In 2011, after Benigno Aquino III acceded to the Presidency, he declared amnesty for the mutineers, and Trillanes was actually able to serve out the last two years of his Senate term in person. In 2012, Trillanes ran for the Senate a second time, and won. One of the big-ticket issues during Trillanes's second term was that he was apparently used by the Aquino administration as a back-channel negotiator between the Philippines and China during the disputes over the Scarborough Shoal / Spratly Islands. He was accused of treason and espionage for keeping the Foreign Secretary in the dark, but largely survived the allegations. In 2016, Trillanes ran for Vice-President, but lost. Since Duterte's accession to the Presidency, Trillanes has become one of his most vocal critics, and his main quarrel with Duterte is allegations of undeclared wealth born of corrupt deals, along with selling out Philippine sovereignty to China by rolling over on the South China Sea disputes. I bring all this up because earlier today (Sep 4 2018), Duterte issued a proclamation declaring that the amnesty granted to him by Aquino back in 2011 was null and void, citing that Trillanes did not apply for it properly (which is a lie). Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, who is the current Officer-In-Charge while Duterte is on his junket* in Israel, has since ordered Trillanes's arrest. This is the second opposition Senator that has been directly attacked by the administration, following the jailing of Senator Leila de Lima in February of 2017 over trumped-up drug charges.
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its a shame your updates stopped gradenko I liked them https://twitter.com/CRTejada/status/1061051319333478400
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The big news as of late is: We just had our filing-of-candidacy period for the mid-term elections in May 2019. The opposition are mostly liberals, with maybe one lefty in the whole slate with a national profile of note. I'm personally kinda down on the whole thing because not only do they lack a full 12-candidate slate, all of them are about as inspiring as Jon Ossoff or Heidi Heitkamp. Meanwhile, the Dutertists are running a full slate of crypto-fascists, conservatives and empty suits. The President's personal secretary, Christopher "Bong" Go, is probably going to win just on the basis of having this loving mug posted on every street corner despite not having done anything of note (except skim money off government contracts) Imee Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos Sr.'s daughter, is also running for Senator. ______ And speaking of the Marcoses, Imelda Marcos was convicted of graft last week. It's good news as far as it being on the record that a court of justice finally legally agreed that the regime stole from the public coffers, but everyone's waiting for the other shoe to drop that the case will be kicked to the Supreme Court and overturned there, or that Duterte will issue a pardon. The latter would be a swift kick in the balls to the legitimacy of the administration, but at this point I don't think it'd stop them. ______ Congress also passed a "Universal Healthcare" bill recently. It's still in bicameral conference, but the expectation is that they'll get that done before Congress goes on Christmas recess and Duterte will sign it before the New Year. Despite the name, it looks like it's going to be watered-down, still privatized system: the current PhilHealth organization is going to contract-out health services from private insurers and private hospitals to provide healthcare services to everyone. I hope I'm wrong, but the repeated use of "co-pay" in the bill's language is not inspiring me with confidence. The relative ease with which this bill was passed suggests that the HMO industry doesn't find it threatening, which is another red flag. ______ Finally, on October 20th, nine sugar farmers were shot and killed by unknown assailants in the province of Negros Occidental. These people were part of a farmer's federation and land reform organization, the National Federation of Sugar Workers, and were occupying the land in protest over the hacienderos of the area's refusal to abide by agrarian reform and land redistribution. The assailants were almost certainly hired guns from those hacienderos, if not from the government themselves, but we'll probably never know because the government immediately both sided with the hacienderos as merely only protecting their private property, while also accusing the farmers of being Communist insurgents (and therefore deserving of their fate). Jose posted:its a shame your updates stopped gradenko I liked them There's already a Philippines thread in D&D, and posting on both is a little  , but I'll if people are still interested, sure, I'll keep posting.The background to this is that Rappler is kind of like The Guardian as far as being a liberal media organization, and Duterte is absolutely out to get them. There was a kerfuffle last year with Rappler being accused of violating Philippine foreign ownership laws because Rappler is largely funded by Pierre Omidyar*. They managed to evade that particular problem by simply having Omidyar give up all of his stakes in the company, thereby making it completely Philippine-owned, but now they're looking for a different angle, this time trying to get Rappler on tax law. * one intersection of Omidyar's interests is when The Intercept released a leaked transcript of Duterte's phone conversation with Donald Trump, where they talked about North Korea. gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 13:10 on Nov 12, 2018 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:There's already a Philippines thread in D&D, and posting on both is a little I really like these posts but given the content I can certainly understand not wanting to make them
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https://twitter.com/Richeydarian/status/1062183236527316992 I posted this in the Hot Takes thread, but I wanna rant about it here because gently caress you, that's why. Richard Heydarian is one of the most irritating pundits on the local scene because he does that whole schtick that Cass Mudde and the rest of these centrist intellectuals like to do where he makes a career out of calling Duterte a "populist" along with people like Trump and Erdogan. In this particular tweet, he's engaging in voter-blaming, and I hate it. In the Philippines, we have a word, "bobo", that translates to "stupid", or "idiot". Our word for "voter" is then "botante". Put the two together, and you have "bobotante", and it's frequently wielded in discourse as the source of the country's ills: the "bobotantes" keep getting bribed and duped and cajoled into voting for "bad" candidates, and that's why the "bad" candidates keep getting into office, and that's why our politics are so hosed. And the solution to this, obviously, is to deny the franchise to the bobotantes! You've also got suggestions of adding an educational requirement to voter registration, or a literacy requirement to voter registration. Going back to Heydarian's point, it's so obviously wrong on its face because the Philippine electoral system is First-Past-the-Post. Since the establishment of the 1987 Constitution after Marcos's ouster, we've never had a President that had a majority of the popular vote. Duterte won with 39% of the vote, Benigno Aquino won with 42% of the vote (the closest anyone's ever got to a majority), and Fidel Ramos in 1992 won with just 23.58% of the vote. So it sucks that Heydarian (and a lot of other people who subscribe to the bobotante idea) turn right around and blame "the people" for putting us into mess, when it's obvious that the electoral system allows for minority rule. And it isn't even limited to the Presidential level, either: lots of local races either literally unopposed or are effectively unopposed, usually because of warlordism, entrenched political machinery, and opposition-intimidation/assassination, and in rare cases where there is legitimate opposition to candidates, you do see the electorate struggling and trying to vote out the local dynast / long-time incumbent, only to be "foiled", as it were, by votes being split between two or more opposition candidates. In effect, "the people" already know how to vote "correctly", but the system won't let them win regardless.
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thanks for this gradenko. it's easy to forget about the philipines in a world with trump, bolsonaro, salvini, and the like, but so far you guys may just be the worst case of all of them (until bolso takes office)
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get that OUT of my face posted:thanks for this gradenko. it's easy to forget about the philipines in a world with trump, bolsonaro, salvini, and the like, but so far you guys may just be the worst case of all of them (until bolso takes office) We'll see if he actually cedes power at the end of his term. If he does, you can be certain he'll be replaced with someone no further left than a neo liberal but is likely equally corrupt and largely there to enrich themselves and their benefactors
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i say swears online posted:i'm all the likes Marcos revisionism is incredibly strong online.
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im on the net me boys posted:how dumb do you have to be to do the one thing you're not allowed to do in the Philippines He's not dumb, in fact he is positively euphoric on his own intelligence.
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Xelkelvos posted:We'll see if he actually cedes power at the end of his term. If he does, you can be certain he'll be replaced with someone no further left than a neo liberal but is likely equally corrupt and largely there to enrich themselves and their benefactors One of the idiosyncrasies of Philippine politics that I'd like to get into is how there is no Sanders/Corbyn/Melenchon-esque leadership figure on the left. ____ In the House, you have a small group of left-wing Representatives that form the Makabayan (literally, "patriotic") bloc, which forms the main body of electoral left-wing politics. They've been pretty good at consistently voting against Duterte's agenda, even if it means House votes go down something like [200 for/12 against]. And they only manage to win seats in the first place due to the party-list representation system, which awards 20% of House seats to parties ostensibly geared at representing minorities and marginalized groups. All the district seats are largely controlled by local machine politics. An illustrative example of what tends to happen with the Makabayan bloc is that when the "universal healthcare" bill was voted on in the House, they were the only ones who voted against it, under the rationale that the bill's provisions of the government contracting out private healthcare providers would only further entrench private interests in the healthcare sector at the expense of public hospitals and public services. Which, personally, is something I agree with, but the bill still passed 222 to 7. ____ In the Senate, you have a single center-left Senator (out of 24 Senators). Risa Hontiveros is from the Akbayan (literally, "backslap") party, which is a democratic socialist party. They cooperated with Benigno Aquino's Liberal party majority during his 2010 to 2016 term, and that was the cause of a split between and the leftists of the Makabayan bloc, since the left considered their "cooperation" to actually be "cooption". Hontiveros herself has probably been the staunchest opposition vote to the administration's agenda, most notably being the only vote against the TRAIN tax reform bill when even the Liberal party Senators either abstained or voted for it. Her own work has included getting a 105-day maternity leave bill passed through Congress (and is expected to be signed into law before the end of the year), as well as trying to get a gender equality/gender rights bill passed. ____ At the executive level, we've never really had a left-wing President even attempt at running for the office, and there's been no whiff of a potential candidate for 2020, assuming we get that far. (Duterte sort of was supposed to be the left-wing candidate, at least at first, but that's an entirely different can of worms that I'll get into another time) A lot of this comes from how there's a literal on-going communist insurgency within the country right now (and has been for over 50 years), which ends up creating this situation where the right-wing paints everyone that isn't an avowed liberal to actually be a bomb-throwing communist, and that leftists who participate in electoral politics are simply sleeper agents. It makes it difficult for anyone to operate in these spaces because you have to, on the one hand, support strikes, labor organizing, agrarian reform, farmer's rights, etc., but on the other hand, also fend off accusations that you're a member of the CPP-NPA, or that your group is "simply" a "legal front" for recruiting prospective communist rebels. It creates a level of discourse by which even a public jeepney driver's union gets called a communist front by the government for protesting rising fuel costs, and serves to try and isolate any and all left-wing politics as still being on the unacceptable fringe. In conversations I've had with people who are receptive to socialist ideas, people sometimes get it in their heads to say "why not just form a new leftist party that's moderate and isn't affiliated with the NPA?", and like, the right isn't going to allow you to make that distinction - you'll be tarred and feathered regardless. And this isn't some "internet censorship" thing either: the lawyer representing the families of nine farmers who were killed in October over a land dispute was assassinated last week, under similar drive-by gunmen circumstances, while student activists are regularly picked up by the police or military, have evidence planted on them, and are accused of being armed rebels.
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