Voter Education | CHAM CLOWDER

Dawn

Mar 26, 2016chamclowderTHE CORNER TABLE2016 Presidential Elections, Easter Sunday, Jesus Christ, Voter education

MARCH DOES NOT come to me as it did in childhood when, at the end of schooldays, it heralded all gaiety. Those lighthearted yearnings no longer play in me like a child cavorting in a summer shower. I lost my father in March. It has been three years and the grief no longer shocks like

Due Diligence

Mar 19, 2016chamclowderPhilippines, Politics2016 Presidential Elections, COMELEC, Voter education, Voters Registration

SOME FRIENDS RAISED concerns last week about the integrity of the voter registration done last year. My friends, a widow and her son, are residents of Barangay Holy Spirit in Quezon City and had faithfully participated in all recent elections. Last August, their COMELEC field office notified them that they lacked biometric information and needed

Whirligig

Mar 13, 2016chamclowderPhilippines, Politics2016 Presidential Elections, Grace Poe, Jejomar Binay, Mar Roxas, Marcos Dictatorship, Martial Law, Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Rodrigo Duterte, Voter education

THE SUPREME COURT seemed to be making up for lost time by releasing two controversial decisions in a single day. The first, ordering the COMELEC to issue printed receipts on election day, has alarmed that agency to a state of near-panic. I once believed that receipts were needed; but after hearing the concerns raised by

Teach Your Children

Mar 4, 2016chamclowder2 CommentsHistory, Philippines, Politics2016 Presidential Elections, Bongbong Marcos, EDSA 30, Martial Law, Millennials, People Power, Voter education, Youth Vote

IT MUST BE wonderful to grow up knowing you have a future. To be able to plan, believing that what you work for you might keep; to envision a sparkling someday and feel entitled to it. That must be nice. I suppose that’s how young folks today feel. Many of them were reared in liberty

Catching up

Jan 22, 2016chamclowderPhilippines, Society2016 Presidential Elections, Balikbayan Box Law, COMELEC, Fare Rollback, Grace Poe, Mar Roxas, Voter education

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone. I’m finally back after an extended hiatus. I wish I could say I’ve been busy celebrating. In fact I was downed by illness over the holidays and I’m still recovering. It’s taking longer than I expected. It makes me realize how old I am. I was too weak to follow the

Lip-service

Dec 6, 2015chamclowderPhilippines, Politics, Society2016 Presidential Elections, Grace Poe, Jejomar Binay, Mar Roxas, Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Moral Recovery, President BS Aquino, Rodrigo Duterte, Voter education

PERHAPS THE WEIRDEST thing on the news this week was Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to donate P1,000 to charity each time he threw a cuss word. In a tone of near-humility, Duterte told reporters how he visited the bishops of Davao who reprimanded him for his foul language and deficient values. Duterte said he accepted the

WHERE TO?

Nov 8, 2015chamclowderNationalism, Philippines, Politics2016 Presidential Elections, Culture, Faith, Servant leadership, Society, Voter education

ONE OF THE MOST arduous of a teacher’s jobs is grading. I spent a few days this week on that occupation, and I feel a bit light-headed now after reading a pile of term papers. The class was Church History and the students were asked to identify one personality or period in the development of

Identified

Oct 17, 2015chamclowder4 CommentsHistory, Nationalism, Philippines, Politics#NeverAgain, 2016 Presidential Elections, Bongbong Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos, Justice Isagani A. Cruz, Marcos Dictatorship, Martial Law, Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Voter education

I DIDN’T ALWAYS AGREE with my Father, though he was brilliant. I was steeped in his libertarian thought and I shared his vista, yet we had our subtle differences. He trained all six of us children to think for ourselves and to express our opinions, even if it clashed with his. Table talk in our

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