Topic: Neo-Colonialism
Is independence just a ghost?
July 15, 2014 ·
Just before Independence Day was celebrated on June 12, a group of newly enrolled children from a shelter excitedly set out on their first day to walk to school at Gala, Sacatihan, Pamatawan, Subic town, Zambales. The road up the hill would give them an easy walk to freedom through education—the great liberator. But then, […]
Read More...THE DANGER OF GMO FOODS
December 3, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The pictures of the hungry children holding up placards with the single word “Food” and another that cried out “Help”, these among many others were heart-wrenching cries of hundreds of thousands of poor people whose lives, homes, and families were wrecked by the devastating, all powerful storm to hit the Philippines […]
Read More...THE RETURN OF US BASES TO THE PHILIPPINES
August 15, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen, Mssc Subic Bay, Philippines – After 44 years working for human rights and social development in Olongapo city, the former home port of the US 7th Fleet, I have seen the futility of using military violence to solve political and territorial problems. The Korean, Vietnam, and Middle Eastern wars were launched […]
Read More...SKIN WHITENERS DAMAGE PEOPLE AND NATIONAL DIGNITY
August 2, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen, Mssc Imagine the scene in a charity clinic where a teenager was brought threatening suicide. Barbara, 17 years old, was crying out in her anguish, beating her clenched fists on the table and screaming, “I can’t live with a face like this, I am better off dead, dead”. She wailed and […]
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