Makò Micro-Press held a zine-making workshop for Masipag farmers and urban poor gardeners from Payatas in Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija, four Saturdays ago, and I remain in awe of how palay seeds and the idea of small, independent presses weave together so well. I must admit that I knew very little of rice farming prior...
Author: DLS Pineda (Dino Pineda)
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‘Sa Prisinto Ka Na Magpaliwanag’ and Other Filipino Myths
There always comes a point when those in power make a high-profile arrest, as shown in the current and recent administrations. It was Joseph Estrada in Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s time, Arroyo in Benigno Aquino III’s time, and Leila de Lima in Rodrigo Duterte’s time. Now, under Ferdinand Marcos Jr., we have Alice Guo and Pastor...
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Postscript to the Paris Olympics: The games at home
As I write this, the news is that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is giving P1 million to every Filipino athlete coming home from the Paris Olympics and P20 million to two-time gold medalist Carlos Yulo. This is not unexpected from the government. When Hidilyn Diaz came home a gold medalist from the Tokyo Olympics in...
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Some difficulty with Patricia Evangelista’s ‘Some People Need Killing’
More than two months have passed, and I still catch myself thinking of Patricia Evangelista’s book launch at Aldaba Recital Hall at the University of the Philippines Diliman. The event was dubbed as her homecoming, Evangelista being an alumnus of UP’s Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts. She and her book, “Some People Need...
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Solidarity is also served at Palestinian Filipino food line
After attending the Veneration of the Cross at the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Parish of the Holy Sacrifice on Good Friday, I went straight to Our Little Gaza Kitchen in Don Antonio Heights, Quezon City. The event was announced online a few days earlier and shared by over 100 within hours. It was pegged...