PEOPLE POWER COMMEMORATION

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/24/2017

‘Guard against resurgence of dictatorship’ TWO victims of Martial Law warned the public to be on guard against the possible resurgence of a dictatorship. Retired Regional Trial Court Judge Meinrado Paredes said Filipinos, especially young people, should…

Intimidation tactics

01/22/2017

President Rodrigo Duterte is at it again, threatening to impose martial law if only to, according to his words, save the country from the illegal drug menace that he claimed had ravaged the Filipino youth and endangered…

A posthumous playlist

Gerard Pareja 01/05/2017

CNN was quick to call 2016 as “The Year the Music Died”—an obvious allusion of course to the line “the day the music died” from Don McLean’s song “American Pie,” which was a lament for the death…

Martial law talk anew

Editorial 12/28/2016

President Duterte’s recent statements regarding his plans to shortcut the declaration of martial law was his way of courting controversy anew right after he justified the Marcos legacy by allowing the burial of the late strongman in…

Duterte shaping up to be a dictator, say militants

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/10/2016

Sanlakas Cebu holds rally to mark Int’l Human Rights Day Two rally participants wore masks of late president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda as they marched together with over 200 people from Sto. Rosario Church going…

Crossing the Rubicon

Raymund Fernandez 12/06/2016

The Rubicon, if you must know, is a small shallow river — a creek to some writers — North of Italy. It marks the border between Italy proper and its northeastern province of Cisalpine Gaul. In 49…

‘Security nightmare ang Pasko, New Year ug Sinulog’

Lloyd Suarez 12/04/2016

Lahap ra kaayo’g dila ning ubang mga tawo nga mang-akusar nga binuhatan sa Duterte administration ang pagtanom og bomba duol sa US Embassy aron gamitong basihanan sa pag-suspenso sa privilege sa writ of habeas corpus ug pagdeklarar…

Is martial law in the offing?

12/03/2016

Filipinos have been through this before: the Plaza Miranda bombing in 1971, the “terrorist bombings” in Metro Manila and the faked ambush of then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile in the following year, which culminated in the…

SHOW OF FORCE

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/30/2016

The crowd of just over a thousand Cebuano protesters may not be as big as those in Metro Manila, but the message was the same: Marcos is not a hero and has no place in the Libingan…

19 ‘real heroes’ enshrined at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani

11/30/2016

Nineteen patriots, among them the late Inquirer editor-in-chief Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, were memorialized at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani’s Wall of Remembrance late Wednesday afternoon. The 19 were hailed as the nation’s “real heroes” for resisting repression…

Marker commemorating Cebuano martyrs to rise at Plaza Independencia

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/30/2016

A marker recognizing Cebuano martyrs and survivors of Martial Law will soon rise at the Plaza Independencia. Anti-Marcos groups led the ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony of the marker after Wednesday morning’s protest rally dubbed “Cebu Rages Against Tyranny,”…

CEBU HONORS YOU

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/29/2016

It will be a different way of remembering Gat Andres Bonifacio as seven Cebuanos will be honored today as heroes and martyrs of the martial law regime at the Plaza Independencia. In an event organized by the…

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