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This zine is a collection of essays I have submitted to Transit Dialog, a Facebook platform where people who write in English can have their pieces published. I would like to thank them for inspiring me to write freely (although there’s a length limit). I also thank the unnamed graphic artists who added life to my words by creating visuals.

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The so-called "Bandilang Itim Collective" has silently disbanded. Bandilang Itim has effectively been demoted from collective to distro. The people behind Bandilang Itim are still there and this distro is still operated by an affinity group, but this affinity group is no longer “Bandilang Itim Collective.”

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PAGLAYA is a university-based anarchist community organization that explores, imbibes, and prefigures libertarian practices.

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“What you see, what you feel, what you hear; when you leave, leave it here.”

For many people who have participated in Reserve Officer Training Corps, this phrase is familiar, almost intimate. It is an oath to secrecy, as much as an oath can be rendered under duress. This golden rule, as it is called, is used to justify or at least defend abuse of power by those in power themselves. It is one thing to be security-minded, to protect the interests and safety of the group from those who seek to malign it. It is quite another to set aside their lived experiences and senses of morality, only to replace them with memories that are left behind in the designated office of the corps, or in the minds of those who have to deal with the consequences for time to come.

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Percival Mabasa, known popularly as Percy Lapid is among the first media workers to be killed under the Marcos II administration.

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Isa si Percival Mabasa, mas kilala bilang si Percy Lapid, sa mga pinaslang na mga mamamahayag sa ilalim ng ikalawang rehimeng Marcos.

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Maraming maaring matutunan ang anarkismo mula sa peministang kilusan. Sa napakaraming aspeto ay nakatulong na nga ito. Ang “anarcha-feminism” ay nakapagpaunlad ng mga analisis at pag aaral ukol sa patriyarka at kaugnayan nito sa kabuuan ng estado. Ating natutunan mula sa islogan na “Ang personal ay pulitikal” na ang mga kalalakihang naghahangad ng pagkakapantay-pantay ng lahat ng uri ng tao ayon sa sekswalidad ay kailangang ituring ang mga babae ng may dignidad at respeto. Atin ring natutunan na walang proyektong rebolusyonaryo ang magtatagumpay kung patuloy na sistemikal na dodominahin, kokontrolin at aapihin ng mga kalalakihan ang mga babae, na ang sosyalismo ay may butas na hangarin, gaano man ito mawalan ng kontrol mula sa isang estado, ang dominasyon sa mga kababaihan ay naroroon parin.

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