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Baliksambayanan: Day 1, “You are surrounded by Victims.”

As people were preparing to take off toward the jail (we were on the bottom floor, an open area beneath the four story Bayan building and enclosed by a large gate) I saw a young man walk in with the cutest damned baby you ever saw (she was only around ...

From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  28 Aug 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Baliksambayanan: Day 1, Getting Oriented

Today is the day I start my series on how my experience was in the Philippines. Basically I’ll be digging through my notebook and photos and will be posting a post or two a day on what I had done for that day and my general feelings of the whole ...

From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

My Trip in the Philippines

Mendiola St., Manila, Philippines: Protesters apart of BAYAN (Bagong Alyansang Makabayan) gather at Mendiola in Manila to oppose the president’s plans to change the constitution to allow her to become Prime Minister and hold power after 2010 (Photo by ...

From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  13 Aug 2009

R.I.P. Manong Al Robles: “For years I have been preparing for this thing called the community.”

Manong Al was a native San Franciscan and fought for the rights of the poor and the elderly all throughout his life.  During the 1970s he fought against the eviction of elderly Chinese and Pilipino American residents at the I-Hotel during which time ...

From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  10 May 2009
Related Topics: Heritage Foundation

Japanese Women Fight Back Against Domestic Violence

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From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  26 Apr 2009

Obama and Chavez: “Hombres del Fuego”

I knew Fox News was bad and wasn’t even really an actual journalistic television station, but this? Damn! If your submitted comment fails to appear, without even an error or "waiting for moderation" message, then our spam-blocking software may have ...

From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  22 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Sometimes I Sit and Wonder…

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From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  17 Apr 2009

33rd Carnival of Socialism

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From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  16 Apr 2009

Joint podcasting with xMabaitx: Suggestions

Coming soon (within the next two weeks) xMabaitx and I will be doing a joint half-hour podcast (either bi-weekly or monthly, not sure) that can be best described as kind of PTI format, except its just us talking about one topic that has to do with ...

From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  16 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Jean-Paul Sartre,  Martin Heidegger

John Hope Franklin, Black Scholar and Activist, Is Dead at 94

In an article in The Atlantic Monthly in 2007, he wrote, “If the American idea was to fight every war from the beginning of colonization to the middle of the 20th century with Jim Crow armed forces, in the belief that this would promote the American ...

From JACK STEPHENS, Alas, a blog,  28 Mar 2009
Related Topics: John Hope Franklin

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