Articles by Noemi Lardizabal-Dado

September 23, 2019 0

#CoveringClimateNow and social movements, #FridaysForFuture and #ExtinctionRebellion

“Nature, you cannot play tricks with nature. Nature strikes back and we are seeing nature striking back and this is a very serious problem,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres [read more]

September 12, 2019 0

Hongkong activist Joshua Wong on their cause on democracy #StandWithHongkong

The opportunity to meet Hongkong’s pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong at the Humboldt University on September 11 was just too good to pass up. The “Germany Stand with Hong Kong” [read more]

May 12, 2019 0

Get out and vote!

We must not just vote. We must use all our powers as social media users to encourage others to vote and to guard the vote. Today, familiarize the look of your ballot by trying out the template [read more]

May 11, 2019 0

May 13, 2019 election monitoring: What to report

I will be at Kontra Daya Election monitoring center. One can report incidents on vote-buying, harassment, illegal campaigning, malfunctioning Vote Counting Machine (VCM), and Voters’ Registration [read more]

May 8, 2019 0

Fighting back election-related disinformation by sharing the truth

This is my presentation for “Fighting election-related disinformation” for Kontra Daya’s People’s Assembly Against Election Fraud held today at St. Thomas Hall, Colegio de San [read more]

May 1, 2019 0

The only survey that matters is the one on May 13, 2019

In his book, The Opinion Makers, David Moore makes the startling conclusion that pollsters “do not measure public opinion, they manufacture it.” He anchors this contention on the practice of [read more]

May 1, 2019 0

Truth-telling in the age of disinformation

An inconvenient truth is that the May 13 elections may again be a manifestation of our people’s political literacy, as mentioned by former ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales during the [read more]

April 24, 2019 0

What party-list group should I vote for in the May 13, 2019 elections? Download this guide.

Download Voter’s guide to the 2019 party-list elections What is the party-list system in the first place? The party-list system of election was intended by the Constitution to ensure that the [read more]

April 22, 2019 0

I’m voting for the opposition, here’s why

In the past three elections, I never shared my list of Senate candidates because I wanted to stay neutral. Instead, I came out with a “consider list” based on a selection criteria. Staying [read more]

April 20, 2019 0

Generosity & patience made me reconsider the senatorial candidates to vote for this upcoming May 2019 elections

I came across Ding Velasco’s post from Inday Varona’s timeline.The post struck me because it was generosity and patience from my readers that made me reconsider my original list of [read more]

April 17, 2019 0

How to vote in the May 13 elections

Do you know how to vote? You think marking a small circle is a simple enough task? Check your precinct, polling center, voter status https://www.gov.ph/web/precinctfinder Download your ballot [read more]