Being Online Matters

Stella Estremera, Editor-in-Chief of the Davao Sun Star, has a wonderful and important cover story in today's Sun Star Davao newspaper. It shows so clearly how damn f*cking complex the issues are in supporting indigenous peoples in Mindanao.

Lots of people throughout the world would want to be able to find and read this piece. But if you don't subscribe to the broadsheet, you won't see it! This story won't get beyond certain residents of Davao City. Of all the articles they put on-line, this is not one of them.

I don't understand. It's so easy to put stuff on-line today. I feel it's so important, I just want to re-type the whole thing and post it myself. The insights of Norma Gonoz, director of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples Education, though sumewhat subtly expressed, are worth their weight in gold.

She talks (warns) about giving children access to education that will eventually just exploit them.

Chew on that one for a while.