

Steven Rood
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@StevenRoodPH
Fellow-in-Residence and Board Member, Social Weather Stations; in the Philippines since 1981; Philippines: What Everyone Needs to Know (now on Amazon from OUP)






Anatomy of a group meeting

4 June 2021. Pau turned 17 the day he entered the hospital in Barcelona. Diffuse Midline Glioma #DMG. A brain cancer w no cure. He would have turned 19 today. His cells now contribute to research around the world, to give other children a chance to survive. Love&hope.



After calls from Canadian #indigenous communities for the #Catholic Church to rescind the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery,” the #Vatican has disowned that position, claiming it never formed part of the Catholic faith, but stopped short of rescinding it cruxnow.com/vatican/2023/0…


Today is my lucky day. A drunk hit me on the highway. Car flipped three times. I smashed the window and got out. All I have is a broken collar bone. God is good all the time



Late reaction since I have been avoiding this hell site but if this happened in a country where public officials had even a modicum of shame, he would have been fired right away. The consequences of not having a shared reality is millions of wasted taxpayers' money.

@JoeyLedesma10in #ProyektoPilipino we will be doing an episode on our society and our Moro brethren. What to your mind needs to be addresses most in our civics when it comes to them?

This is what happened, here at home, remarkably enough, in 2022. Except people expected it to instantly achieve a 1986 critical mass when what it was was a 1978-style tentative first step on a long road ahead to creating (hopefully, one day) a new majority.
