How Rappler helped defeat Mar Roxas

By JoeAm When you spend your whole life in one city, you live the values and speak the language of that city. When you live in one culture for your whole life, you live the values and speak the language of that culture. When you are a reporter in one culture all your life, you … Continue reading

Detainee in Camp Crame

By Wilfredo G. Villanueva We compromise too much, we are too passive for our own good—if it doesn’t concern us, we have better things to do. (Maybe that is the cultural basis for Imee Marcos’s call to move on, but that is another story, although related.) That is the background of this article. Now throw … Continue reading

Moving from analysis to advocacy

By JoeAm, Last week, I wrote an article that missed its mark. My headline did not correctly convey the point of the story. The headline talked about Leni Robredo. The point was how to build a strong, unified pro-democracy effort. Let me try again, because it is that important. The argument I am making has … Continue reading

NOW and THEN you live through history

NOW THEN Both photos from the Daily Inquirer  

The peculiar circumstance of being Chinoy

By JoeAm Filipinos of Chinese ancestry are everywhere in the Philippines, making up an estimated 20% of the population. Each has a story to tell, of how he or she became Filipino. And each has a saga that is entering a new phase as China aggressively occupies Philippine seas and appears to be making inroads … Continue reading