Today is the eighth year of the disappearance of two well-loved progressive personalities in Panay island: five-time political detainee Luisa Posa-Dominado and peasant leader and organizer Leonilo Arado.
Desaparecidos, or the missing, are made to appear again in painted portraits.
The Kilusang Mambubukid ng Pilipinas said on Saturday that they would not be able to celebrate Father’s Day today because their peasant leader Randall Enchanis and other activists are being persecuted by the Arroyo regime. Echanis (center, foreground) is a political detainee while Nilo Arado (left, foreground) is a desaparecido. Fermin Lorico was killed in…
Luing’s life has been an extraordinary one, an exemplar of dedication to the highest ideals of a people struggling for genuine independence and a more humane social order. Luing speaks for herself here in a way that is at once starkly simple and powerfully eloquent. : Here is someone—a woman, and to me this is…