RT @gideonlasco
"Vilifying jeepney drivers or red-tagging them does not contribute to the debate. Neither does the insistence on a simplistic dichotomy for or against 'modernization'."

My column today on the role of jeepneys among Filipino families - starting with my own: #NoToJeepneyPhaseout

My fave columnist Gideon Lasco's well-written take on the PH jeepney modernization issue: "Far from the simplistic narrative of jeepney as needful of “modernization,” the jeepney has always been modern."

https://opinion.inquirer.net/161610/the-jeepney-has-always-been-modern

#NoToJeepneyPhaseout #ph

The decision to end the transport strike came after Valbuena and PISTON national president Mody Floranda met with Presidential Communications Office Secretary Cheloy Garafil and Office of the Executive Secretary Undersecretary Roy Cervantes on Tuesday, March 7.
#Philippines #NoToJeepneyPhaseOut #TransportStrike
https://www.rappler.com/nation/transport-strike-ends-groups-meet-malacanang-palace-officials-march-8-2023/

"The #Onlineprotest through the hashtag #NoToJeepneyPhaseout continues to stay on the trending topics of #Twitter #Philippines on the second day of the transport strike.

The same hashtag also has more than 6,000 posts on #Instagram while it garnered over 316,000 posts on #Facebook."

#DragQueens, #ContentCreators throw support behind #TransportStrike

https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2023/03/07/244991/drag-queens-content-creators-throw-support-behind-transport-strike/

Maybe I’ll start this new #KwentongJeepney thread in line with the #NoToJeepneyPhaseOut strike 😊

While the #Philippines are reeling from a transport strike for #NoToJeepneyPhaseOut, the House of Representatives passed the resolution for a change in the constitution.

Here’s why charter change is not important right now: #politics

https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/why-charter-change-is-needless-right-now/

@DocCarms #NoToJeepneyPhaseOut !

Public transportation, including the Philippine #jeepney should be subsidized by the government, like how they maintain public roads.

#NoToJeepneyPhaseOut

Number coding is suspended tomorrow in Metro Manila
#Philippines #NoToJeepneyPhaseOut

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/metro/862870/mmda-suspends-number-coding-for-monday-amid-transport-strike/story/

Sara Duterte’s statement on the call for suspension of classes during the transport strike on #NoToJeepneyPhaseOut.

#philippines

#Caturday

#Philippines
#NoToJeepneyPhaseOut #politics

Artwork by Martin’s Purrspective of Bulatlat: https://www.bulatlat.com/category/comics/martin/

#NoToJeepneyPhaseOut