How cruel is this state? Historically, it has neglected its indigenous peoples, treating them as subhuman for hundreds of years, encroaching on their lands, and refusing to provide them with essential social services. When they stand up for their right to self-determination and establish schools tailored to their culture and Read more…
To be a scientist in the Philippines is indeed difficult. What more when one aspires to be a people’s scientist? To be a people’s scientist is to go beyond doing “science for science’s sake”.
President Marcos’ statement on improving our disaster forecasting is pure hypocrisy. Long before the Paeng Typhoon disaster, the government knew that our Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM) needed significant improvement. With the increasing threats of climate change President Marcos Jr said that this is included in his top priorities. Yet Read more…
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People denounces another wave of attacks against alternative media, mass organizations and environmental defenders. On June 6 and June 8, 2022, the National Security Council (NSC) and the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), respectively, ordered the blocking of several websites, including those Read more…
In our 22-year long advocacy of making science and technology serve the people, we found it necessary that the government should listen to the people, especially the marginalized sectors, and not just the political and economic elite. We challenge all candidates to declare their platforms before the Filipinos and not deceive us through mere rhetoric and gimmickry.
We, the members of AGHAM Educators who served as teachers of the Lumad youth in the Lumad Bakwit School, strongly condemn the Department of Education’s order of suspension of 55 Salugpongan Ta’ Tanu Igkanogon Community Learning (STTICLC) schools in Region XI. This order, which was based on the recommendation of Read more…
She is his equalNot ought to be quantified, nor qualifiedThey are equals in all sense of the word She is not defined based off of himShe is not defined by what she can and cannot doShe is defined by what she is She, the creature of emotionsAnd, she the ocean Read more…
Scientist activist group AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People led the Philippine leg of the #GlobalScienceMarch on Earth Day, highlighting the state of Filipino science and technology and calling on the Duterte administration to begin crafting solutions to develop the country’s science and technology (S&T) sector. Read more…
Scientists, environmentalists, science workers, and students headed by AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People gathered on Wednesday at the launching of the March for Science, Environment, and the People to call for environmental justice and greater support to science and technology that will genuinely serve the interests of the people. Read more…
We in AGHAM Advocates of Science and Technology for the People express our support to the vanguards of science and technology in the United States in their March for Science as newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-science and anti-people moves intensify upon serving less than a week in office. Read more…