MANILA — The Supreme Court has extended for the second time the status quo ante order (SQAO) temporarily stopping the plan to give the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos a hero’s burial. The high court has extended the SQAO until Nov. 8. The petitioners were expecting the SC to issue its decision over the petitions…
Outright censorship was replaced by the dominant media’s standards of “newsworthiness.”
“The Marcos dictatorship failed to crush the revolutionary movement. …and no reactionary government can defeat it as long as the societal bases and factors for their existence remain.”
Students nationwide stage a walkout to commemorate martial law and protest its repressive legacies.
Every year, Negrenses reenact the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 farmers in Escalante, Negros Occidental.
“Until now, we have not attained justice. We will continue to fight for it.”
“Martial Law may not exist today but the social conditions that gave rise to it remain.”
Survivors of martial law, former Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares and Bonifacio Ilagan, vice chairperson of Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Aresto (SELDA) insist that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos should not be accorded a hero’s burial. Video and editing by RONALYN V. OLEA
“It’s so painful. It’s like erasing the sins of Marcos.”
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective When pressed about why he is allowing the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani despite the numerous protests, President Duterte justified his decision by saying: “He was a president and a soldier. Simple.” Well and good if the matter is as simple…
He’s been dead all these years, although the debate over where to finally bury his remains is yet to end. But Ferdinand Marcos, who installed himself as this country’s first, and so far only, fascist, though “constitutional,” dictator in 1972 by placing the entire country under martial law, still casts a long shadow over Philippine…