The recent mass shooting in the Florida campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School also united the community behind one student, Emma Gonzalez, who aired the most searing indictment of the people responsible for the death of 17 young people.
“We call BS!” Gonzalez said, calling out those in their gilded seats in the US legislature, the companies behind the National Rifle Association, the NRA itself, and others who have continuously denigrated and resisted gun control that could have prevented yet another school massacre.
In these parts, the peasant-based alliance Gabriela and women’s organizations maintain the fight against the misogyny that animates officialdom.
On the local entertainment scene, actress Angel Locsin advised “Pilipinas Got Talent” contestants clad in skimpy outfits to resist being “objectified” and to “show us your talent and not your bodies.”
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