Right now I so very badly want to be exploring the Winterfell-esque beauty contained in Bethesda's latest action-RPG epic Skyrim, but as it stands now...
The Board of the Cultural Center of the Philippines will face a Senate hearing this Tuesday morning, August 16 at 930am in the Plenary Hall of the Senate Building in Manila to answer for their 'crime' of displaying the Kulo exhibit. The CBCP and its conservative religious right allies will be mobilizing en masse to support their new inquisition, so we are putting out a call to any and all who can make it to troop to the plenary hall gallery (as its a public hearing any valid ID will get you in) and support freedom of speech.
Despite every effort made at civil accomodation, the CBCP and Pro-life Philippines have shown through their actions that they do not want discourse or discussion; they only want their demands met and their dictates obeyed.
A brief e-mail interview with Mideo Cruz, the artist behind the controversial works being displayed in the Cultural Center of the Philippines which the conservative Catholics of Pro-Life Philippines are trying to take down for blasphemy.
Having taken on the imperialist capitalist conspirators Mcdonald's and Bench Apparel, perhaps the CBCP and their ilk now finally feel confident enough to crush the greatest threat to the cultural heritage of the Philippines: the, er, Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Since life as we know it is supposed to change forever before you even finish reading this, I figured our fellow freethinkers might appreciate the following works while waiting for the world to end.