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Family & A Piano Concierto August 23, 2026

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- August 25, 2026

Family & A Piano Concierto August 23, 2026

Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™

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Impact of Tuition Hikes Amid Rising Living Costs in the Philippines

- April 16, 2026

Return: A Curatorial Manifesto for the Right to Re‑Learn in the Philippine Archipelago Impact of Tuition Hikes Amid Rising Living Costs in the Philippines Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™ April 17, 2026 Expanding the Filipino right to education into a mandatory “balik unibersidad” requires urgent, sequenced public investment, regional digital infrastructure, and targeted stipends to prevent widening urban–rural inequality; without these, the policy risks becoming symbolic rather than transformative for Mandaluyong and the archipelago. Curatorial frame As a cultural gatekeeper and art practitioner I read the proposal for mandatory tertiary re‑entry as a curatorial commission: a public artwork staged across campuses, barangays, and online platforms that insists the state treat education as a living commons. The frame foregrounds three axes: legal entitlement (RA 10931 as baseline), material access (funding, stipends, housing, transport), and technological mediation (blended delivery, m...

The Politics of Shelter and the Economics of Remittance- A Misplaced Priority

- March 04, 2026

The Politics of Shelter and the Economics of Remittance- A Misplaced Priority Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™ March 4, 2026 The Filipino diaspora is a cartography of longing: a map drawn in the margins of passports, in the ledger lines of remittance receipts, and in the quiet architecture of family homes rebuilt with money sent from afar. To speak of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) is to speak of a nation that exports care, labor, and hope. It is also to speak of a state that must reconcile two contradictory obligations: to protect its citizens abroad and to steward the macroeconomic flows—remittances—that sustain domestic consumption and fiscal stability. When a head of state counsels migrants to “find their own place of safety abroad” while simultaneously commissioning studies on remittance patterns, the juxtaposition is not merely rhetorical; it is emblematic of a governance problem that is at once ethical, administrative, and epistemic. --- The Humane and the Bureaucratic There is a ...

Suitcases, Soldiers, and Spectacle: Theatrical Economies of a Billion‑Peso Claim

- February 23, 2026

Suitcases, Soldiers, and Spectacle: Theatrical Economies of a Billion‑Peso Claim Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™ February 24, 2026 18 EX-MARINES CLAIM THEY DELIVERED MORE OR LESS PHP805 BILLION TO MARCOS AND ROMUALDEZ. According to their statement, they were also ordered to deliver US$2 million to be used by ICC investigators, and they say they handed it to former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV. They have many more stories about various deliveries of billions on orders from their former superior who served as security forces for Rep. Zaldy Co." --- Premise and Tone Premise: Take the translated claim above as the textual seed: a dramatic public statement attributed to a group of former marines, alleging enormous transfers of money and naming prominent political actors. Treat it neither as verified fact nor as mere rumor, but as a cultural artifact worthy of academic satire: a document that reveals how narratives of power, secrecy, and spectacle circulate in public life. Tone: The essay that fol...