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Amidst a crisis that has left thousands of Filipinos fighting tooth and nail just to scrape by, reinstating death penalty that would only further victimize those living in the margins is the last thing this country needs.
Editorial cartoon by Mikhaela Calderon
#NoToDeathPenalty
Pagbutihin mo rin pagdodoktor mo, senator.
Dibuho ni Raniella Martinez
#ProtectHealthWorkers
#SolusyongMedikalHindiMilitar
#COVID19PH
The Congress is keen to push for a 12 percent VAT on online transactions & services, which will
only burden the Filipinos who are already grappling with poverty, while, at the same time, seeks to grant huge tax cuts on big businesses.
Illustration by Marcy Lioanag
#COVID19PH
Sino ba sa ating dalawa hindi sumusunod sa batas, chief?
Dibuho ni Mikhaela Calderon
#EndStateFascism
“Bakit anlakas mong bakla ka? Pag nanlaban ka, papasabugin ko yung ulo mo,” they told him. Their car keys were stolen. It was guns against nothing, an arrest without a warrant. The police forced them to go to the Manila Police District
#WakaSONA2020
Read: https://t.co/Uss9hECYBp
Press freedom has never been just about journalists. The stakeholders will always be the public. If anything, the shutdown of the country’s biggest network is nothing but a confirmation of the Duterte regime’s character.
#WakaSONA2020
Read: https://t.co/jk9VYokGoQ
Maria Ressa is being punished for publishing an article months before the penal law allegedly violated went into effect. Rappler crossed Duterte, and anyone who crosses Duterte should expect retribution, to hell with the constitution.
Read: https://t.co/ba4zjGDWAd
The State of the Nation Address (SONA) is never an utterly reliable marker of milestones for an administration, though, with Rodrigo Duterte at its helm, these annual reports have instead become harbingers of far worse than just a mere roundup of horrors past. #wakaSONA2020
Commuters and PUJ drivers alike seem to have been left in the periphery as the country’s officials implement ill-advised transportation policies—pushing them further to the margins in the midst of a crisis.
Illustration by Mikhaela Calderon
#BalikPasada
#NoToJeepneyPhaseout
Filipinos need not listen to Duterte’s rambling to realize that crises unfold one after another, that we live in dire poverty with slim chances of ever surviving this pandemic—or, far worse, this regime.
Access the Collegian’s Special SONA issue here: https://t.co/7lN0lwdXSG.