Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
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Karlo is an activist and freelance writer based in Panay island in the Philippines. Check out (Mis)readings, his blog on books, literature, reading, and politics.
Latest posts by Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
30 January 2012
Philippines: Protest Against Removal of Trees by Shopping Mall
The plan of SM City Baguio shopping mall in north Philippines to remove more than 100 trees to make way for a new parking lot and entertainment site has been greeted by massive protests from concerned citizens and various cause-oriented groups.
18 January 2012
Philippines
Mark Segador documents the efforts to restore the now decaying historical sites in Iloilo City, Philippines.
Philippines
Vencer Crisostomo looks at last year's mass movement high points in the Philippines through the lens of western pop songs.
14 January 2012
Philippines
The Museo de Santisima Trinidad curator reviews Angela Stuart-Santiago’s Revolutionary Routes: Five Stories of Incarceration, Exile, Murder and Betrayal in Tayabas Province, 1891-1980. The book is a history of her family and the revolutionary struggles against the Spanish, American, and Japanese colonizers up to the early years of the Philippine republic. It is based on the memoir of her grandmother originally written in Spanish.
Philippines
Journalist Keith Bacongco writes about how Typhoon Sendong evacuees in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao uses the malong, a traditional Muslim blanket, to cope with the disaster.
10 January 2012
Philippines
Vina Lanzona's new history book, Amazons of the Huk Rebellion, tells the many stories of Filipina women involved in the Huk Rebellion from the 1940s up to the 1950s. This is reviewed online at The PCIJ Blog.
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