INC rally enters third day after transfer to Liwasang Bonifacio

By Kiera De Guzman The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC)-led rally continued for a third day on Thursday, July 2, after organizers transferred the gathering from the EDSA People Power Monument in Quezon City to Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila.  The venue was changed after the Quezon City Department of Public Order and Safety revoked the group’s…

Inside the Tacloban School Shooting: The Systemic Safety Question 

Inside the Tacloban School Shooting: The Systemic Safety Question  by Giana Bacordo For many Filipinos, the idea of a shooting happening inside a classroom is difficult to imagine. The 43-second video of the attack itself, however, makes that reality ever more tangible and impossible to ignore. Hunched underneath a table, the camera points up, the…

Between Silence and Speculation

In times of tragedy, people search for answers. Yet when answers are scarce, certainty often arrives before the truth does. The deaths of Ateneo basketball players Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili during a team-building activity have left not only their families but the wider public grieving, shocked, and searching for accountability. In the days following…