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Never Again to Tyranny!
The martyrs and heroes we honor each year at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani are silent witnesses of a past generation that faced a dictatorship and contributed its best sons and daughters in the struggle to defeat such a regime.
Repression & Resistance
Painting Repression is a montage of paintings by various artists giving an overview of PH history traversing the Marcos dictatorship.
When the rains come, will not the grass grow again?
Why does there have to be an “enemy?” The retired military officer who asked this question went on to write a book detailing his insights on the government’s Red scare campaign in the 1950s.
Consulate, Marcos agents linked to espionage case (1975)
Certain important documents went missing at a Los Angeles conference in 1975 organized by anti-Marcos Fil-Ams and Filipinos in America.
Political Detainees in the Philippines (Book, 1976)
This iconic 128-page little book, published in 1976 by the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines, destroyed the benevolent image that the dictator Ferdinand Marcos had sought to paint about his rule.
Never rest your case
“DOMINGO-VIERNES. The family and friends of these two assassinated Fil-ams never rested their case. They succeeded in proving, step by step, detail by detail, that the Marcos regime was the mastermind in the killing. I post this today because, over my breakfast table, I read again of another dastardly, cowardly killing of a supporter of Read more about Never rest your case[…]
We honor our heroes; we do not demean their memory
Our Bantayog heroes teach us a powerful lesson they had paid for with their lives, that Filipinos will fight for their freedom. If we still do not get this, if we let this oppressive law operate, if we let our heroes be called “terrorists,” if we do not jealously guard our rights as citizens, I fear we are headed towards another dark period in our history.
A Letter to the Filipino Youth of Today (Jovito Salonga, 2005)
Today, the challenge is for the youth of this nation, beset by the worsening problems of poverty, corruption and criminality, to consecrate their lives to a cause bigger than themselves, to ”dream the impossible dream” and “reach the unreachable star.”
Our statement on the draft Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020
We pray that President Duterte and our lawmakers understand this history’s most precious lesson — A law is bound to fail if it plants fear instead of confidence and sows terror instead of trust among its citizens.
Tail-end of a cold front: PAGASA weathermen and the 1986 People Power
Today the role of the PAGASA in the EDSA revolution is almost forgotten among those alive at the time and virtually unknown among younger generations of employees, much less the general public. To begin with the loyalist government soldiers clashed with the rebel Reform the Army Movement (RAM) and between them were the PAGASA employees who in an accident of history, were forced to do their duty to their country as they saw best.