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Report of the Pampanga Team

My documentation of election observation in Pampanga during the May 14, 2007 elections.

Songs of Battle, Songs of Hope

The background paper of a hybrid lecture/performance I gave on March 23, 2007 at Conspiracy Garden Café in Quezon City, Philippines about the Nueva Canción movement and implications for the Philippines.

Norberto Gonzales Insults Human Rights Watch, UN, EU, Amnesty International and Melo Commission

My reaction to the Philippine government’s response to a July 2007 Human Rights Watch report.

The Evolving Role of the Philippines Supreme Court

Given the state of human rights abuses and an almost unchecked president in the Philippines, the Supreme Court may be an untapped source of hope…

Election Forensics – The Effect of Socioeconomic Characteristics on Voter Behavior in the Philippines

Regression Analysis looking at socioeconomic factors and voter turnout and voter preference. Written for the Institute for Popular Democracy.

Jun Lozada and the Political Backfire Process

A paper written in March 2008, just as the outrage over the ZTE-NBN scandal and the Jun Lozada abduction began dying down. This paper applies Brian Martin’s “Political Backfire” model to the Jun Lozada abduction and urges social movements to not “rely on the ’spontaneous’ nature of sweeping social movements,” as “relying on the ’spontaneity’ of a movement is simply another way for us to snub the responsibility of planning for the movement, when, in reality, planning is what creates the conditions for such spontaneity to occur.”