Never Forget

Erap Estrada Illustration by Macky Pamintuan

Joseph “Erap” Estrada (real name Joseph Ejercito Jr.) was charged and found guilty, convicted of committing the crimes of corruption and plunder. NEVER FORGET!

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Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

When I was an Environmental Science major two things stuck to my mind: an anecdote and a quote. Our teachers always told us the story of two frogs. One frog was put on a pot of hot boiling water and the frog immediately jumped out of the pot. The other frog was put on a pot of cold water in a pot and the temperature was slowly turned up until the temperature was high enough to kill the frog without the frog noticing it.

The experience of the first frog is the one a lot of us have experienced the past few weeks. Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng hit us so hard that we had a knee jerk reaction to it, realizing that in a few minutes our lives, our loved ones, and our properties could be lost in an instant. But what we do not realize is that we have also been like the second frog. Slowly, our environment, our home, has been changing but we have been too busy, too complacent to notice it.

It took us two typhoons to realize that “hell yeah, the wrath of Mother Nature can really kill us.” The next time it happens, sad to say, we might not be so fortunate. The next calamity might not spare any of us, not even us who are typhoon-free here in Davao City. A scarier thought would be if it would not be a calamity but a series of unnoticeable, seemingly insignificant events that will lead to our death. The time to care and take action is now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not when the situation is very much desperate already.

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Bakit Ka Boboto?

A video by the Ateneo Task Force 2010 and the Loyola Film Circle…

GO OUT AND REGISTER!!! For more information on how to register, log on to the COMELEC website.

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