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FOLLOWING a demonstration in Korea last year, the Filipino martial art of arnis may be used to develop a new martial art that also includes taekwondo. Arnis became a hit in South Korea after Supreme Grandmaster (SGM)…
Cagayan de Oro City—The last time I visited the City of Golden Friendship martial law was in effect but somehow, with the exception of the presence of mobile checkpoints, one could hardly feel any tension caused by…
Last week I had an interview with a history teacher who is doing a research on student activism in Cebu, and I shared with her my experiences of educating for social consciousness and transformation even before martial…
The intense fear inflicted by Martial Law sent various signals. Some slowly left the country, private schools especially Catholic schools turned over their schools to another congregation. I am familiar with three cases of such schools. St.…
HUMAN rights lawyer Democrito Barcenas called on Cebu residents to remain vigilant in monitoring developments and take a stand against actions and policies that could lead to the declaration of martial law anew in the country. In…
Forty-five years after it was declared by the late president Ferdinand Marcos, millennials have different perspectives on how martial law had impacted the country’s history and its people. Yet Cebuano millenials Ivan Rey Tan, Ted Frances Servano…
Towards the beginning of the seventies, groups among the youth had awakened into intensified nationalism. In the positive sense, they were envisioning a future of authentic independence and a government that was actually serving the Filipino people.…
On September 21, 1972, then president Ferdinand Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081, placing the entire Philippines under martial law to address an intensifying communist insurgency. Many regard it as the Philippines’ darkest time. Under martial law there…
Two Cebuano arnisadors helped the Philippine team shine in the Fuquan International Martial Arts Festival and Congress last Sept. 15 to 19 at the Fuquan Cultural Sports Center in Guizhou City, China. Dexler Bolambao and Oswen Kenret…
It’s no small coincidence that Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s comment about the possibility, however remote, of President Rodrigo Duterte declaring a nationwide martial law came days ahead of the 46th anniversary of the declaration of martial law…
The declaration of a nationwide martial law next week is a “remote possibility,” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Friday. Wire service Agence France-Presse, which earlier came out with a report titled “Philippines’ Duterte may declare martial…
President Rodrigo Duterte earlier said that he would be forced to declare a nationwide martial law if the communist rebels bring violence to the streets on a planned protest on September 21. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said…
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