Activists

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Dodoy

On the morning of 30 December 2020, as Roy Giganto and the rest of the Tumandok 9 lay dead or dying, Lorenzo Paña was 135 miles away in...

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Roy

Hinilawod, a 28,000-verse epic that takes around three days to chant, is an ancient literary work that has been passed on orally through...

2 min

Orlando

Generations of Filipinos have been conditioned to be suspicious of activists. We see acts of dissent as disruptive and destructive, and...

2 min

Tatay Toto

One of the sad realities of our time is how our idea of greatness gets a little bit more distorted each day. We pin our hopes on the...

Portraits and Stories

Those We Lost is a collection of portraits and stories of the victims of the so-called drug war in the Philippines. This site is a memorial to the murdered and a call to action for the rest of us.