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Time is a luxury we no longer possess

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Space Tourism Chronicles The Slingshot Saga Time is a luxury we no longer possess Our battered Subi spacecraft, a relic in the night Flickering erratic, its core a dying light On Primary Trade Lane Delta-Nine, a river of light so grand But cycles bled away, draining across the land BK slumped, pale and strained, JB with eyes closed in despair Time a luxury we no longer possessed, consumed by cosmic air. Transcript from the Slingshot Saga - Time is a luxury we no longer possess Our goddamn battered Subi spacecraft, a damn relic lost in the endless black void! Flickering like a dying firefly on the edge of extinction, its core barely clinging to life like some stubborn, flickering candle about to blow out. We’re stuck on Primary Trade Lane Delta-Nine, that blazing river of cosmic light stretching for eons, yet every damn cycle just bleeds away, sucking the lifeblood right out of this forsaken stretch of space. BK is slumped over, looking paler than a ghost at a midnight séance, and J...
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Emotional and Evocative

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Do you feel the weight of history in your city's streets? Does the same spirit that fueled Bonifacio's fight for Philippine freedom burn in you today?

Walking with Bonifacio
Chino Roces Avenue burns with history.
I imagine heroes like Andrés Bonifacio
sweating in this same overwhelming heat.
The cultural spirit that Bonifacio kindled.
Each step reveals layers of the Filipino struggle for freedom.
Skyscrapers loom but can't hide the past.
Bonifacio's soul lingers in these streets.
The fight for justice continues today.

The privileged few have stripped this city, and the desperate have been pushed to the neglected outskirts. Defiance has spread through the streets as the poor are forced to pay inflated costs. The social fabric tears under the pressure of workers trapped in endless cycles of debt. Years of witnessing wealth disparity, crushing interest rates and suppressing labour unions have moulded resistance into something unyielding.

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Bonifacio, Filipino history, colonialism, Manila, social justice, resistance, wealth disparity

Call to Action:
"Share YOUR knowledge of the history of fighting for justice in your city in the comments below."

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#Philippines #history #socialawakening  #justice #Manila #colonialism #poverty #neoliberalism #Andrésbonifacio #Katipunan #Philippinerevolution #ChinoRocesAvenue #filipino  #activism  #art #arthouse #videoart 






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