Sparkle in the Dark
The year 2020 opened with the ejection of the Taal fountain of liquid magma. As we go to the guide of the people in question, the illness that will carry a hit to the "social request" is gradually crawling into the world.
From March to December, we contributed our uprisings in the middle of a pandemic. Consistently, consistently we are incensed by burglaries and wastes of assets that ought to be committed to general wellbeing. While tuning in to where the Bayanihan Act spending plan of P275 billion went, we were much more shaken by the report that P15 billion was taken from our PhilHealth. They additionally stole P389 million for the dolomite of Manila Bay. There has never been a substantial motivation to depend on spending on the white sand while the Filipino masses are starving to death.
We have not yet advanced through the emergency achieved by COVID-19 and the past issues brought about by the neoliberal framework, we have been crushed by a progression of tropical storms. As Quinta, Rolly, Ulysses, Vicky go through the last quarter of the year, we progressively understand that it isn't the common whirlwinds that fundamentally murder and obliterate our yields, homes, and climate, however, the deserting of our harvests. occupant and the corporatization that outcomes in the environmental downpour.
Starvation, emergency, our observer to the savagery of the incredible will drive the uprising. The president and his kin realize that individuals will rebel against their activities that are just for the rich and the trivial few. Assuming this is the case, the public authority will plan laws and make a "request" that will stifle our obstruction. The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 was immediately passed during the lockdown. Simultaneously, extremist pioneers Randy Echanis, Zara Alvarez, Bae Milda Ansabo, Jory Porquia were mercilessly killed; captured, and accused of created charges of numerous different sexual orientations and partners, including Beatrice Belen, Amanda Echanis, and Lady Ann Salem.
Notwithstanding political constraint, captures, terrorizing, killings, ladies, individuals will hold up. However long there is emergency and abuse, there is a battle.
Light of Hope
Guided by a ladylike and class point of view, Gantala looks to the year 2020 to offer more, combined with propelling our stand and honing our cognizance.
To develop the comprehension of society and the battle of the Filipino public, we dispatched a progression of studies that examine the historical backdrop of the women's activist development, the battle of lowly ladies, progressive craftsmanship, and writing, just as occasions abroad.
By supporting the ventures of associations, for example, Amihan Peasant Women and NPIWU-NAFLU-KMU, Gantala has fortified fortitude with the fundamental classes of our general public the laborers and workers. We have extended our commitment with different ladies' gatherings abroad, explicitly the Southeast Asia Feminist Action Movement (SEAFAM) in Indonesia and Malaysia, Tilted Axis Press in the United Kingdom which has distributed one of our compilations of interpreted works, and Bar de Force Press in Vietnam that we cooperated within building up a women's activist display on state suppression during pandemics.
Gantala endeavored to distribute distributions that would address the current circumstance like How Are You: A Narrative of Peasant Women in a Pandemic and Más Que La Cara, an investigation on the pertinence of the veil to ladies' dissent. We likewise energized ladies from networks like Kadamay in Pandi, Bulacan to expound on their own encounters and information.
By composing and voicing the complaints and desires of ladies and individuals, Gantala endeavors to aggregately make and distribute. So in each article or explanation, in each book and task of Gantala, the individual personality vanishes and the aggregate expertise arises.
As every individual from Gantala endeavors to add to crafted by the group and to political work, by and large, we likewise figure out how to build up our own cognizance. Alongside the battle, we comprehended the idea and cycle of reshaping; the quest for straightforward living; the achievement of independence and actual strengthening; and the honing of information and abilities. We will confront them together in 2020, and will confront them together in the new year.
Seed the Torch
The emergency is steady under the industrialist framework. Also, free enterprise is upheld and reinforced by its twin male-centric society. Yearning, neediness, and brutality will keep on besetting us under the current social framework. Presently, and in the years to come, we need to conquer this by and large and desperately.
As we face the year 2021, along with ladies, the persecuted class, reformist journalists, and specialists, Gantala will join with the aggregate turn of events and honing of position, vision, and activity. We will additionally reinforce fortitude with the majority while raising and extending the norms of creation.
