PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid With the current challenges facing democracy and press freedom worldwide with trends towards autocratization and government manipulation of media, it is time to shift our attention to this continuing erosion of democracy. This is shown in the growing...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid When we speak about voluntary or citizen-led electoral campaigns, we can think only of former US President Barack Obama’s first election campaign in 2008, and that of Vice President Leni Robredo which is just starting. I am not aware of other presidential...
The People's Reform Party (PRP), which was founded by late Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, and the Hugpong ng Pagbabago, a party chaired by vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte-Carpio, has formally formed a political alliance for the upcoming 2022 elections. This came after PRP, currently headed...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid These days, we are given to doom saying or forebodings perhaps because of exposure to “Cassandras” who continually predict that our planet will no longer be able to survive the current onslaught on our environment. Climate change poses a threat, and society...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Two eminent world leaders, UNESCO director-general Audrey Azoulay, and MIT professor emeritus and author, Noam Chomsky who keynoted the 28th annual conference of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), highlighted the critical role of...
Four political of the country's major parties on Thursday, Nov. 25 formally forged a coalition to support the presidential bid of former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.. and his running mate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte in the 2022 national elections. The Partido Federal ng Pilipinas,...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid A growing menace in our midst which had worsened with the onset of COVID-19 is sexual abuse and exploitation of children. Several initiatives include the “Save the Children Philippines” which focuses on drawing awareness on the online sexual abuse and...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid A worrisome finding during a recent Pulse Asia survey is that “environmental destruction” ranks only no. 12 among our “most urgent national concerns,” and that it is not even on the list of the seven personal concerns. Yet, the most urgent personal...
Less than a week after withdrawing her candidacy as re-electionist mayor of Davao City, Mayor Sara Duterte tendered her resignation from the Hugpong ng Pagbabago, a regional political party in Mindanao which she formed in 2018. 50B3404E-BB7A-4E14-B32F-F0F7E874583D In a handwritten resignation...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid (Part II) Dr. Crispin Maslog and I were fortunate to be invited to join a small global committee that would follow-up recommendations. Several policy conferences were held in the region including need for alternative media ownership systems such as a public...
PAGBABAGO (Part I) Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid Let me share highlights of the recent “conversation” via Zoom on the above topic, where Dr. Crispin Maslog, professor of journalism, author of some 30 or more books on communication and related issues on public affairs, and I were invited to...
Vice presidential aspirant Senator Christopher “Bong” Go says he finds nothing wrong with Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio meeting with presidential candidate and former Senator Bongbong Marcos saying he respects her prerogative to discuss political plans with candidates of other parties....
