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As we celebrate Labor Day on May 1, we sat down with senatorial candidate and former Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino president, Luke Espiritu, to tackle unemployment, poverty wages, and the Philippine labor situation. What can we do to revitalize the fight for labor rights in the country, and what does it mean to elect labor leaders in public office? Find out in this episode.

For our full interview with Luke, head over to our website, www.podkas.org.

Our final episode for this mini-series isn't exactly a historical sub-discipline, but nonetheless very important and consequential to how we perceive and understand the Philippine past. Bro discusses some of the problems of history education in the country and relates potential strategies we can take to solve this.

Visit our website, www.podkas.org, for more stuff on Philippine history, politics, and society.

In the Philippines, traditional media has faced attacks by the state and is being sidelined by the rise of social media. This episode, we talked to Ayee Macaraig, journalist and academic, on the dynamics of media and politics in the Philippines and how we can continue understanding the place of media in a democracy.

Visit our website, www.podkas.org, for our full interview with Ayee and for more stuff on Philippine history, politics, and society.

For the penultimate episode of our #HistoryPrimer series, we talk about a field of history we practice through PODKAS: Public History. Join us in exploring the imperative of historical scholarship to take on a public face.

Visit our website, www.podkas.org, for more stuff on Philippine history, politics, and society.

For decades, Philippine education has been plagued with numerous challenges that have seem to have been magnified by the ongoing pandemic. We unpack many of these challenges in this episode with the help of Dr. Lorina Calingasan, former principal of the UP Integrated School and professor at the UP College of Education.

Listen to our full interview with Lorina by visiting our website, www.podkas.org.

What is Global History, and how is it different from the World History that we know and studied in high school? In this episode, our PODKAS team member Bro orients us about human interconnectivity and processes at a global scale that shaped the world as we know it today.

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At its core, economic history investigates the economic aspects of the human experience. But it is a historical subdiscipline wrought with intellectual debates on theory and method. Find out about this and more in this episode of History Primer.

Visit our website, www.podkas.org, for more stuff on Philippine history, politics, and society.

We present you our first Quarterly Catch Up! We talk about three of the biggest issues for the first quarter, January to March, 2022: the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the 2022 national elections. Join us as we wrap this quarter up before it ends!