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Brynch Bonachita

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Cebu City
As seen in: Rappler, Facebook, Bulatlat
Covers:  Human rights, social justice, development, etc.
teaching assistant @ateneoSOG. on hiatus, with some bylines: @rapplerdotcom, @aninawprod, @bulatlat, etc. sociology (‘23) and post-grad stuff @uscphilippines.
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Locals, advocates race to protect reefs in Panaon Island

Locals, advocates race to protect reefs in Panaon Island

Rappler — SOUTHERN LEYTE, Philippines - Deonel Beto, 42, dives the surrounding waters off Panaon Island in Southern Leyte for a cause. He and other members of his group, the Dap-ag Boys, spend their time conducting coastal cleanups and collecting crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), a coral predator locally known as dap-ag.
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'A responsibility to act': Locals first to help Agaton victims in Leyte

'A responsibility to act': Locals first to help Agaton victims in Leyte

Rappler — TACLOBAN, Philippines - As soon as Agaton made landfall in Eastern Samar and distress calls started popping up on social media on Sunday, April 10, youth leader El Jan Pongos called up his contacts and started organizing a network to conduct relief operations for those who were hit hard.
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Tropical Depression Agaton: At least 14 people dead in Baybay, Leyte

Tropical Depression Agaton: At least 14 people dead in Baybay, Leyte

Rappler — The weather disturbance has so far affected 15,120 families or 66,485 individuals in Eastern Visayas LEYTE, Philippines - At least 14 people died in Baybay town, Leyte, due to the floods brought by Tropical Depression Agaton (Megi) on Monday, April 11.
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Rain, mud fail to stop huge crowd of Marcos loyalists in Tacloban grand rally

Rain, mud fail to stop huge crowd of Marcos loyalists in Tacloban grand rally

Rappler — TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Thousands of Warays here roared in the rain as comedian Bayani Agbayani chanted " Tao kami, hindi kami sibuyas (We're humans, not onions)!" and " Hindi kami bayad (We're not paid)! "seconds before presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.
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In Palo, Leyte, chants for justice mix with cheers for Leni-Kiko

In Palo, Leyte, chants for justice mix with cheers for Leni-Kiko

Rappler — LEYTE, Philippines - Red-scare tactics failed to stop thousands of supporters of presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo and running mate Senator Kiko Pangilinan from gathering early on Tuesday, March 29, at the Boy Scout monument in the town's government center.
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Robredo red-tagged in streamers on eve of Leyte visit

Robredo red-tagged in streamers on eve of Leyte visit

Rappler — TACLOBAN, Philippines - At least 50 streamers red-tagging presidential candidate and Vice President Leni Robredo were placed on trees and posts surrounding the Government Center in Palo, Leyte on Monday morning, March 28, a day before her campaign sortie in the province.
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Prosecutor clears DepEd worker nabbed in 'buy-bust'

Prosecutor clears DepEd worker nabbed in 'buy-bust'

Rappler — TACLOBAN, Philippines - The Biliran Provincial Prosecutor's Office junked the criminal complaints against Department of Education (DepEd) employee Maria Umpacan, who was nabbed in what authorities claimed was a buy-bust operation last January 31.
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Biliran's Espina dynasty sticks with Marcos

Biliran's Espina dynasty sticks with Marcos

Rappler — TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Biliran Provincial Governor Rogelio Espina said their political clan, the powerhouse in Biliran province, would back presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his running mate, Davao City mayor Sara Duterte.
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Despite new Omicron cases, daily COVID-19 cases dip in Eastern Visayas

Despite new Omicron cases, daily COVID-19 cases dip in Eastern Visayas

Rappler — TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Single-day COVID-19 cases in Eastern Visayas have declined in the past two weeks, with the numbers of confirmed cases falling into the middle two-digits, according to data from the Department of Health (DOH) Region 8 office.
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Eastern Visayas hospitals full of COVID-19 cases, region logs single-day high

Eastern Visayas hospitals full of COVID-19 cases, region logs single-day high

Rappler — Tacloban City Health Office The Department of Health in Eastern Visayas says most hospital admissions are mild to moderate COVID-19 cases TACLOBAN, Philippines - Health officials in Eastern Visayas warned on Friday, January 21 , that more towns and cities in the region may be placed under Alert Level 4 as COVID-19 patients continued to fill up hospitals.
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Bohol, Southern Leyte struggle with deaths, destruction from Typhoon Odette

Bohol, Southern Leyte struggle with deaths, destruction from Typhoon Odette

Rappler — The death toll from Typhoon Odette (Rai) in Bohol has climbed to 63, Governor Arthur Yap said on Sunday, December 19, as he appealed for hundreds of generators to help the province deal with a critical shortage in drinking water.
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Odette threatens 3,000 Eastern Visayas barangays with landslides, floods

Odette threatens 3,000 Eastern Visayas barangays with landslides, floods

Rappler — Rodrigo Jay Miralles, Eastern Visayas senior geologist of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), said on Tuesday night, December 14, that certain areas of a total of 3,124 barangays in Leyte, Southern Leyte, Eastern Samar, and Northern Samar are at risk in terms of landslide and flooding.
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Business group seeks rollback of 'anti-people' port tariff hike in Tacloban

Business group seeks rollback of 'anti-people' port tariff hike in Tacloban

Rappler — The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tacloban-Leyte says 'the exorbitant hike in arrastre rates is anti-people as it will cause a price increase of commodities' in Eastern Visayas A business group has called for a rollback of what it called the "anti-people" port tariff hike in Tacloban that would cause a spike in the prices of commodities and ultimately hurt Eastern Visayas consumers.
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Muted rites for Yolanda 8th anniversary; Tacloban mayor credits love for recovery

Muted rites for Yolanda 8th anniversary; Tacloban mayor credits love for recovery

Rappler — A religious ceremony and a blessing of a mass grave for those who perished eight years ago when Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) slammed into Eastern Visayas, especially Leyte province, was the highlight of this year's commemoration of one of the worst disasters in Philippine history.
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Eastern Visayas raises COVID-19 vaccine target to 2.5 million residents

Eastern Visayas raises COVID-19 vaccine target to 2.5 million residents

Rappler — Eastern Visayas needs to expand vaccine coverage to more than 2.5 million individuals to achieve the government's targeted herd immunity, according to Department of Health regional data.
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Lawyer Rex Fernandez and his heart for the marginalized

Lawyer Rex Fernandez and his heart for the marginalized

Bulatlat — "During our meetings, he told us of his experience in Carbon during his younger years as an activist. He would sleep at Carbon," a vendor said in Cebuano. "His enthusiasm in helping us was clear to us because he was always early and the first to arrive during our meetings."
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Abducted Cebu dev’t worker reported dead in Manila hospital

Abducted Cebu dev’t worker reported dead in Manila hospital

Aninaw Productions — Elena “Lina” Tijamo, an officer of a farmers’ welfare non-governmental organization (NGO) in Cebu who was abducted over a year ago, has been reported dead after a “goiter operation” at a Metro Manila hospital. She was 58.
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How Community Pantries Spurred Collective Action in the Philippines

How Community Pantries Spurred Collective Action in the Philippines

Change Magazine — What started out as a makeshift communal food station at the most populated city in the Philippines became a movement of solidarity across the country, in response to widespread
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Gasping for Air: The Worsening Plight of Haiyan Resettlement Residents Amid The Pandemic

Gasping for Air: The Worsening Plight of Haiyan Resettlement Residents Amid The Pandemic

Change Magazine — "It was a struggle for us," Mark said, recounting how he and his family had to make do with tents, and then a shabby bunkhouse for almost three years, on the heels of tropical cycl
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From the Ground Up: Empowering Filipino farmers for sustainable development and the right to land

From the Ground Up: Empowering Filipino farmers for sustainable development and the right to land

Change Magazine — For tillers in the Philippines, the struggle for land is a struggle for life. Nick, 53, knows this all too well. At the tender age of 10, he had already begun plowing the fields ne
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