“We’re not here to celebrate a fascist dictator. We’re here to call for an end to all fascists and dictators.”
Youth group slams Marcos, Duterte with a faux ‘birthday celebration’
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Federico Garcia Lorca and academic freedom
The ‘Real’ was not Irene Marcos. But rather, an instance in which the academe’s complicity in that violent history is being displayed like anything. What the protest action affirms is a space that will not be defeated, that will not surrender, a space that turns itself into a place that battles academic freedom’s free market version.
Filmmakers, artists, academe denounce military’s red-baiting
“Our film screenings provide an invaluable service to the youth, the students and the general audience, especially since our education system has largely failed in informing them about the systematic atrocities that happened during the martial law era.”
Gov’t scare tactics failed, thousands march against rehabilitation of Marcoses, Duterte’s tyranny
“Today, our nation is reliving the nightmare. The Marcoses have conned, maneuvered, and schemed their way back into power, and into an alliance with Duterte.”
UP president dared to join Sept. 21 protest against rehabilitation of Marcoses
The UP community called on UP President Concepcion to institutionalize the honoring of Martial Law victims and martyrs in the university, create more spaces for their historical role in overthrowing the Marcos regime, and providing courses for in-depth discussion of the Martial Law atrocities.
Outside Manila, protesters denounce hero’s burial for Marcos
In various cities throughout the country, ordinary citizens join protest actions against the hasty burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
SC urged to halt #MarcosBurial at heroes’ cemetery
“The hasty interment of Marcos’ remains will result in a grave and irreparable injury to the people’s rights as it will send the message that the late dictator, criminal manipulator of the justice system, human rights violator, and plunderer was a hero, politically reversing the many decisions of the Supreme Court, the judgment of the people in EDSA and history.”
What led to the political comeback of the Marcoses
With so much ill-gotten wealth and alliances with other members of the ruling elite, it’s no wonder the Marcoses were able to win elections.
#NeverAgain | Groups dare Duterte to remove ‘imprints of martial law’
“Martial Law may not exist today but the social conditions that gave rise to it remain.”
Salungguhit | Martial Law and back again
Victims laud passage of Marcos indemnification bill
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Twenty-six years after the ouster of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, will the victims of martial law finally receive their long overdue indemnification? House Bill 5990 or An Act Providing Compensation to Victims of Human Rights Violations during the Marcos Regime was approved this week on third…