Nothing is usual in the Philippines these days

The entry’s title is taken from Time Magazine’s latest coverage of the country titled Crisis Again – for the Philippines’ Arroyo. And indeed, what can be more unusual than the news that filled the front page of the country’s leading paper yesterday?

I’m talking about the defiling of a mural made by the Neo-Angono Artists Collective as commissioned by the National Press Club. That the NPC made changes with the painting without consulting the artists is an affront to the rights of authors/artists. That the NPC, supposedly an organization of media people and journalists who resorted to this violation is clearly ironic and not the least unusual.

Here are samples of the said alterations:

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