Amid economic and political instability at home and abroad, a growing number of young women in the Philippines are breaking social taboos and making the decision to not have children. #Phillippines #children #women https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/0527/Philippines-child-free-women
#phillippines
Bought By Blood is a Christian metal-core band from the Philippines. Click to see their song Declaration
#metal #metalcore #christian #alternative #hardcore #phillippines #rock #spiritfilledhardcore #hxc
Sending Duterte to the Hague is a good start. But his successor Marcos Jr. has continued his tactics of killing and abducting dissidents and activists, while both the Trump and Biden administrations have heavily funded these state-sponsored killings in the Philippines
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/19/rodrigo-duterte-icc-arrest-accountability
Lately with AKIRA
Tell us a little bit about yourself I'm AKIRA, a self-taught photographer from Cavite, Philippines. Stills from personal narratives, heavily inspired my artistic creation. My intimate approach to photography allows me to create images that transcends mere visual perception. After practicing the medium for two years, my love for the art form led me to pursue formal education in Photography. I am currently enrolled in a bachelor's degree program, where I further develop my skills and […]
Akira blurs the line between aspiration and fantasy
Akira is a self-taught photographer from Cavite, Philippines. Stills from personal narratives heavily inspire their artistic creation. Their intimate approach to photography allows them to create images that transcend mere visual perception. After practicing the medium for two years, their love for the art form led them to pursue formal education in photography. They are currently enrolled in a bachelor's degree program, where they further develop their skills and deepen their […]https://tagtagtagmag.com/2025/03/22/akira-blurs-the-line-between-aspiration-and-fantasy/
"...the most destabilizing of all the imperialist provocations is ... the Typhon missile launcher system, deployed by the United States to the Philippines last year. The intermediate range missile launcher has the capacity to target much of China ... with ballistic missiles from its ... location in Luzon. The Typhon system in the Philippines is as provocative to China as missiles deployed to Cuba would be for the United States."
🎨 “Foundations to Futures: Celebrating Artistic Evolutions” is an exhibition that serves as a tribute to the transformative journeys of students, alumni, and teaching artists of Galvez Atelier.
Opening on: February 9, 2025 | Sunday (3 PM onwards) at Super Duper Gallery, No. 8-A, 11th Jamboree, Quezon City.
(Posting because my friend's piece got accepted into the gallery! It's her first time joining an exhibit/ selling a painting.) 😊
thinking about tambourine jewelry again. i love how these are coming back into fashion. #phillippines
photo source: https://nolisoli.ph/96878/vintage-tambourine-jewelry/
Saturday night at the #SomervilleArmory - its all #filipino love songs, buncha bands, fundraiser supporting literacy for kids in the #Phillippines - $45, $30 w/ student id https://artsatthearmory.org/events/pinoy-opm-music-fest/
#BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 7/x
Seeing as Trump got away with it, why doesn't every other Fash politician the Oligarchs fancy have a go,
yes?
Surprised Farage isn't 'picking up his rifle'
Statement of the NDFP Negotiating Panel
October 28, 2024
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Negotiating Panel strongly condemns the recent illegal arrests of NDFP consultants Simeon Naogsan, Porferio Tuna, and Wigberto Villarico. The arbitrary detention of these consultants is yet another in a string of blatant violations by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), signed to provide both parties to the negotiations the conducive conditions to engage without the threat of arrest, killing or harassment.
The NDFP Negotiating Panel firmly rejects NSC Spokesperson Jonathan Malaya’s insinuations that JASIG is no longer in effect. The effectivity of these agreements cannot be simply rescinded through a mere press conference or media statement. Such agreements are the product of formal negotiations and mutual commitment, rooted in both national and international legal principles, and cannot be undone unilaterally or casually. The termination of an agreement like JASIG requires formal procedures as stipulated in the document signed by both parties in 1995.
The NDFP Negotiating Panel likewise refutes Malaya’s claim that Villarico is not an NDFP consultant. In fact, Wigberto Villarico is an NDFP consultant, regularly engaged by the NDFP Negotiating Panel as a key representative from the Southern Tagalog region. His role is crucial in representing concerns of farmers and workers in the region and in advancing the substantive items in the negotiations including in the process of drafting the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER).
The repeated arrests, torture, and killings of NDFP consultants under Marcos Jr. in the past years, despite their protected status under JASIG, represent a deliberate act of bad faith by the GRP. The GRP’s actions undermine the peace process and violates the basic principles of mutual respect and accountability. These consultants have dedicated their lives to representing the Filipino people’s interests and are integral in the resumption of peace negotiations. Their unlawful arrests serve only to foster growing distrust and heightened tensions at a time when space for dialogue is critical.
JASIG explicitly guarantees safety and immunity for both GRP and NDFP consultants, resource persons, and staff involved in the peace negotiations, protecting them from arrest and persecution. By repeatedly violating these protections, the GRP has disregarded its own commitments and continues to push the ongoing talks to the brink of collapse. It is unacceptable that while the GRP claims to pursue peace, it simultaneously targets and imprisons those working to achieve it.
The GRP is deliberately creating hostile conditions to obstruct the peace negotiations. With consultants and negotiators of the NDFP repeatedly subjected to arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings, and torture, the GRP has made a mockery of its own supposed commitment to peace. These grave human rights violations demonstrate not only a disregard for JASIG and the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL), but also a complete lack of respect for the lives and freedoms of those working for a just resolution to the armed conflict.
We wish to reiterate the NDFP’s policy of openness to resume peace negotiations, but how can we possibly engage in meaningful negotiations when our negotiators and consultants are subjected to arrests, killings, and torture? This issue is both a practical and political obstacle to the ongoing talks, as it threatens not only the safety of the NDFP consultants, negotiators and staff but also undermines the very foundation of trust and dialogue necessary for any productive peace negotiation to continue.
Julie De Lima
Chairperson
NDFP Negotiating Panel
source: NDFP
US troops examine a knocked out Japanese Type 95 light tank - Philippines, April 1942 #type95 #tank #phillippines #pacific #ww2 #history #worldwar2
I feel like this decorator crab missed the memo on "Around here we obey the law of gravity".
#Scuba #Phillippines
PBS: Strong typhoon hits China’s coast after leaving 25 dead in Taiwan and the Philippines https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/strong-typhoon-hits-chinas-coast-after-leaving-25-dead-in-taiwan-and-the-philippines #typhoon #gaemi #Taiwan #Phillippines
This scorpionfish really was hard to see with ambient light, despite its absurd position.
"The Philippines is among the nations worst affected by the sweltering weather in Southeast Asia, where the intense tropical summer heat worsened by humidity forced class cancellations in recent weeks and sparked fears of water shortages, power outages and damage to agricultural crops." #Phillippines #climateemergency #climate #heatwave
The craft beer market in The Philippines is relatively new. Elias Wicked Ales is one of the leading breweries and they are constantly adapting to and leading the tastes in the country.
Founder Raoul Masangcay told me what he thinks will be the next big thing
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