By Davinci S. Maru
MILLIONS of Filipino voters cast their ballots today to elect a new president and 18,000 other elective positions. These are scenes from the voting day in Batasan Hills, Quezon City.
Author: Davinci Maru
Filipino devotees re-enact Christ’s suffering
In the village of San Pedro Cutud in San Fernando, Pampanga, penitents imitate the suffering of Jesus Christ as part of the annual observance of the Holy Week. Watch why devotees volunteer to be whipped, tied, and nailed to the cross and learn why this tradition continues up to this day.
Public Forum: Pera, Pulitika, Eleksyon 2016
PCIJ invites you to a public forum dubbed “Pera, Pulitika, Eleksyon 2016” featuring a summary of PCIJ’s findings on political ads, pre-campaign and campaign period, month 1.
We have invited Commissioner Christian Robert S. Lim, head of the Campaign Finance Office of the Commission on Elections, to speak at the forum.
This is happening on March 9, 2016, Wednesday, 1 to 5 pm at Hotel H20 at the Luneta (near the Quirino Grandstand) in Manila.
Only a limited number of seats are available. You may please confirm your attendance through the PCIJ Training Desk at training@pcij.org until 6:00 pm today, March 8, 2016
EDSA@30: An Unfinished Revolution
Text and Photos by DAVINCI S. MARU
THIRTY years after the EDSA People Power revolt of 1986, protest marches linger. The protesters hurling often sharp and bitter critique of the myriad reforms that many had expected would follow the fall of the Marcos regime, and the peaceful transition from authoritarianism to democracy.
But EDSA was all of so many things to many people, an inchoate bundle of hopes and dreams not quite easy to fulfill. The expectations were so rich and enormous that not any four-day revolt by any number of street marches could deliver all at once — not just rights restored but also lives improved, and not just repression quashed but also good governance served on a silver platter.
And so, three decades hence, the marches continue.
Call for Applications
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is conducting a series of Investigative Reporting Seminar on Elections and Campaign Finance. Supported by the National Endowment for Democracy, the series of seminar-workshops will be open for journalists and citizen media from NCR, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The first leg of the series is open for journalists and citizen media from NCR and Luzon. This is set on January 21-24, 2016 at The Bayleaf Intramuros. Deadline of applications is on January 8, 2016 (Friday).
You may download the application form at http://bit.ly/PCIJ-IR2016-Application
For more details about the seminar, please get in touch with the PCIJ Training Desk at training@pcij.org or (02) 434-6193.
