when pinoy pride is abstract...  white supremacist, patriarchal capitalism/imperialism has stripped every other meaningful part of your identity, destroyed one's consciousness through war and 109 years of imperialist ripping away of dignity, coming to a country that hates the sight of you to the point where you have nothing left except the peaceful ( Read more... )

Originally posted:  http://natoreyes.wordpress.com/

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The rice crisis
April 4, 2008

A lot has been said on the current rice crisis. For one thing, the government refuses to admit that there is one. On the other ( Read more... )

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"Genuine nationalism will inevitably lead to the anti-imperialist struggle.  Genuine democracy will inevitably lead to the anti-feudal struggle."

- Guerillapino

"As long as imperialism controls the Philippine economy and society, as long as the country remains semi-feudal and semi-colonial, the only analysis and program that will lead to freedom is the one from the National Democratic movement."

"Filipino projects, organizations and agency that is based on the individual will never solve our collective ( Read more... )

What is social consciousness?  It is awareness, but specifically on how the world works, how our labor and work produces the wealth of our exploiters.  Everyday, our work (production) and buying (consumption) strengthens the few in power leading to a system where the harder we work, the poorer we become relative to the rich.  We are robbing ( Read more... )

"You've flown to Rome and London
Anxiously looking back to clouds loaded with dreams wandering
Sunk in memories of tomorrow slowly drowning

You've flown to Riyadh and Qatar
On waking up blinking in sleep the heart's constricting
vexed by a vow lost in the flotsam and jetsam of the journey

You've flown to Toronto and New York
Pursuing wild ( Read more... )

by now i've had
4 years of high school
4 years of college
4 years post-college

the 4 post college years have been the best

reprinted from jabok....

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Our system is one of detachment: to keep silenced people from asking questions, to keep the judged from judging, to keep solitary people from joining together, and the soul from putting together its ( Read more... )

when we are old, what will we have to say for ourselves ( Read more... )