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Continue reading →: Meralco’s insulting attempt at pa-pogi
On Tuesday (March 9), the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) asked the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to allow it to “reduce” and spread over several months the whopping P1.83 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) hike in this month’s generation charge. This is clearly a case of an insulting attempt at pa-pogi. Meralco wants…
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Continue reading →: Free the Health 43!
The video above is a performance by Sining Medikal, cultural arm of the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), during a March 5 protest rally at Mendiola Bridge in Manila. It tells the ordeals and fight for freedom of the 43 health workers abducted last February 6, then tortured and being…
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Continue reading →: Failed health system and the Health 43
In a poor country where one out of every two people dies without receiving any medical attention, 50 percent of the population do not have access to health care, 40 percent do not have access to essential medicine, 10 mothers die daily due to pregnancy and childbirth-related causes, and 100…
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Continue reading →: Notes on the Comelec’s mock polls
Today (February 6), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) held mock elections in various parts of the country. The mock polls, which intended to simulate the first ever automated nationwide polls on May 10, covered nine polling centers with 50 pre-selected voters each. As a volunteer for election watchdog Kontra Daya…
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Continue reading →: Notes on sugar production, supply, and prices
Government’s move to import duty-free 150,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar to supposedly mitigate soaring local prices may cause more harm than good for end-consumers as it encourages further speculation in supply and prices in the domestic market. The importation implies a situation of tight domestic supply and reliance on…
I’m Arnold Padilla, a Filipino activist, writer, and researcher.
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