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  • “Corned beef”

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    The internet (mostly Facebook) troll comment “corned beef” used to disparage and make fun of victims of the murderous Armed Forces of the Philippines is truly deplorable.  First of all, troll comments that red-tag civilians as NPA soldiers and therefore “terrorists” are 1) slanderous and 2) dangerous, as this gives the police and military reason…

  • JUSTICE FOR RJ LEDESMA! DEFEND NEGROS!

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    Gantala Press grieves the killing of writer, journalist, and community worker RJ Nichole Ledesma in the recent massacre of 19 people in Negros Occidental. RJ was among the first casualties to be identified following the military operations held in Toboso on April 19. However, according to Human Rights Advocates Negros, RJ was not in the…

  • Resistance, Contradiction, and Critique: Committed Writing Now

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    Faye CuraKeynote speech at the 5th Edel Garcellano ConferenceAteneo de Manila University, November 29, 2025 Magandang umaga sa lahat. Thank you to the organizers of the 5th Edel Garcellano Academic Conference for inviting me to deliver the keynote speech on the theme, “Committed Writing Now.” As a committed non-academic, I am super humbled. I am…

  • Hanggang sa Tagumpay: Boycott Frankfurt Book Fair

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    At the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) or Frankfurter Buchmesse, the FBF-funded LitProm association canceled that year’s LiBeraturpreis for Palestinian writer Adania Shibli “due to the war started by Hamas.” This “war” referred to the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, which Zionists and their supporters have since used to justify Israel’s decimation of Palestine.…

  • Sa sampaga ng pagkakaisa

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    Komentaryo* sa ‘Pagkat Tayo Man ay May Sampaga: New Philippine Writing and Translation for a Free Palestine na pinamatnugutan nina Joi Barrios, Faye Cura, Sarah Raymundo, at Rolando Tolentino (Gantala Press, 2025)ni Laurence Marvin S. Castillo Paano ba natin mapag-uusapan ang pagmamapa ng ating bansa sa daigdig ng panitikan, sa panahong binubura mismo sa daigdig…

  • Palay at Tula: Mga Ani sa Pakikibaka

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    Rebyu sa Nanay Magsasaka: Mga Tula ni Marites N. Nicart, Gantala Press, 2025ni Aila Mae Bermejo LAGOM NG KOLEKSIYONAng Nanay Magsasaka ay koleksiyon ng mga tula tungkol sa isa sa pinakamalaking kabalintunaan sa lipunan: silang mga nagbubungkal, nagtatanim, at nag-aani ay sila ring walang makain at lupang pagmamay-ari. Ginalugad ang mga ito sa mga tula…

  • HeART of Gaza: Children’s Art from the Genocide

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    Noong nakaraang ika-4 ng Oktubre, opisyal na inilunsad ang HeART of Gaza: Children’s Art from the Genocide—isang exhibit ng mga dibuho at likhang-sining ng ilang mga bata mula sa Gaza. Sa mga dibuho ng mga batang mula apat na taong gulang hanggang 17 taong gulang ay makikita ang lipunang ibinunga ng nagaganap na henosidyo. Sa…

  • FILIPINO WRITERS AND ARTISTS FOR THE FREEDOM OF PALESTINE: BOYCOTT FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR! (Fil/En)

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    NAGKAKAISANG PAHAYAG NG MGA MANUNULAT AT ARTISTANG PILIPINOPARA SA PAGPAPALAYA NG PALESTINA Tayong nagkakaisang manunulat at artistang Pilipino ay tumitindig kaisa ng mamamayan ng Palestine at ng mundong sumusuporta sa pakikibaka laban sa henosidyo at setler kolonyalismo ng Israel, mula sa lahat ng ating kailugan hanggang sa lahat ng ating karagatan. Mahigpit nating kinokondena ang…

  • Filipinos are Palestinians: Boycott the Frankfurt Book Fair!

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    The Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani wrote that imperialism had “laid its body over the world,” and that the Palestinian cause is “a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is. A cause of the exploited and oppressed masses.” Kanafani declared, and we chant this today, “In our thousands in our millions we are all Palestinians.”(1) The…

  • The Frankfurt Book Fair’s Complicity in the Genocide

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    I am Faye Cura, publisher of Gantala Press which is a member of the Publishers for Palestine network.  I would like to take this opportunity to share exactly how the Frankfurt Book Fair is complicit in the genocide and why a Boycott is the best course of action for publishers. Data comes from a comprehensive…