Tinig ng Plaridel

3 min

Progressive groups condemn ‘trumped-up’ charges against CMC alum

Posted on 4 October 20214 October 2021
bySamantha Salamanca

Human rights group Karapatan said that Bakwit school teacher and CMC alumna Lorena Sigua is experiencing “psychological torture and systematic harassment” under police detainment due to repeated interrogations without the presence of her legal counsel.

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5 min

[EDITORIAL] From one dictator to another: Unearthing each other’s grave

Posted on 30 September 202130 September 2021
byTinig ng Plaridel

One of Ferdinand Marcos’ children is sitting comfortably in the Senate. The other, seeking higher office. His wife, scot-free from multiple counts of graft. Right from the grave, the dictator is rising unstopped.

Who else took him out of his sepulcher but President Duterte himself?

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6 min

‘Ipagpatuloy ang simulain’: Ang pagpapamana ng aktibismo sa kabataan

Posted on 25 September 202125 September 2021
byRenz Palalimpa

Sa isang press conference noong Set. 17., sinariwa ng mga aktibistang tumuligsa sa Batas Militar ang kanilang maagang pagmulat sa pagkilos. Anila, bagamat ilang dekada na ang nakalipas, hindi nawala ang diwa ng aktibismo sa hanay ng kabataan.

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6 min

As Sept. 30 deadline draws near, voter applicants ‘frustrated’ with registration mishaps

Posted on 20 September 202120 September 2021
byRhenzel Raymond Caling

Even when the Commission on Elections (Comelec) opened mall registration booths to draw more voters as the Sept. 30 deadline draws near, registrants were still met with obstacles in their application process.

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4 min

[OPINION] No, Belo, I don’t need to buy my beauty

Posted on 15 September 202120 September 2021
byJem Torrecampo

Women will not find their deliverance in a divisive paradigm of beauty. The true redress to the harms they endure is beyond individual cosmetization, rather in a collective liberation from the system that fuels their insecurities.

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3 min

14K petitioners urge Shopee and Lazada: ‘reveal, reduce and redesign’ packaging

Posted on 10 September 202120 September 2021
byJan Cuyco

As Shopee and Lazada prepared to kick off a massive 9.9 sale, 14,000 individuals dropped a petition to demand urgent waste reduction and a sustainable delivery system to ‘enable a better normal.’

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5 min

With UP short on vaccines, student jabs remain in limbo

Posted on 9 September 20219 September 2021
byElla Laguna

UP Diliman’s COVID-19 immunization program #BakunahanSaDiliman believes that the university should extend vaccination services to all of its students. There’s one thing missing though, the government can’t give them enough vaccines.

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6 min

Immunocompromised, afraid: HIV treatment tails off amid COVID-19

Posted on 7 September 20219 September 2021
byGabryelle Dumalag

The treatment of people living with HIV (PLHIV) had to take a backseat as the pandemic limited their mobility. Extreme lockdowns blocked PLHIVs from lifesaving antiretroviral drugs, putting them in danger of not only contracting COVID-19 but other deadly diseases as well.

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3 min

UP student councils call to realign intel funds to COVID response

Posted on 1 September 202115 September 2021
byJason Sigales

The 51st GASC adopted 20 resolutions, several of which strengthened calls to reallocate funding from the state’s counterinsurgency wallet to the government’s economic relief and education programs.

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Delays in scholarship aid, internet subsidy a ‘perennial problem’ — UP student councils

Posted on 31 August 20219 September 2021
byJan Cuyco

Several student councils across the UP system reported delays in the delivery of gadgets and internet subsidies through the Student Learning Assistance Support (SLAS) Online, which is meant to cushion the pandemic’s impact on financially challenged Iskolar ng Bayan.

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5 min

[OPINION] We don’t need another Hidilyn Diaz story

Posted on 25 August 20219 September 2021
byJohn Mark Garcia

UP Diliman’s student-athletes watched as Hidilyn Diaz scored the nation’s first gold. They saw themselves in her triumph, as they know the systemic underfunding and lack of support she had to overcome to get there. Perhaps, they know it a little too well.

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3 min

UP in the air: What you need to know from the proposed 2022 budget for UP

Posted on 24 August 20219 September 2021
byRhenzel Raymond Caling and Renz Palalimpa

In 2022, the UP system could face a P1.3 billion budget cut through the Department of Budget and Management’s (DBM) proposed national budget, which was submitted to the House of Representatives on Aug. 23, Monday.