Lethal

 Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Filed Under: Overseas Employment, Illegal drugs, death notices MY TENSES are getting mixed up. Present or past? Are the convicts still waiting to die, are they dying, or are they already dead? By now we should already know the fate of the three overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) who had been condemned and scheduled to die by lethal injection in China on Wednesday. Dying or being killed by lethal injection seems less brutal than OFW Flor Contemplacion’s execution in 1995 in Singapore,...

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More than just a library of her own

Sunday Inquirer Magazine/FEATURE/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Filed Under: Lifestyle & Leisure, Books, Travel & Commuting, Women “A ROOM of her own” is what it used to be. But why stop there? Why indeed, when she could have an entire home to herself. A library, gallery and archive all hers.The Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (Aliww) is proudly the first of its kind in the Philippines and in this part of the world. It is not merely a place to...

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Power books by, for, and about women

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. DoyoFiled Under: Literature, Women MARCH, WOMEN’S Month, has a lot to offer to women and women lovers. Many activities are lined up in March and one can’t seem to find time for all of them. But a launching of many books by, for and about women is something different. It is not every day that one gets to see so many such books of different genres, intents and purposes and so many women authors in...

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Remembering Tañada vs Bataan nuke plant

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. DoyoFiled Under: Disasters (general), Government FROM MY active files I just pulled out the booklet “The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant: A monument to man’s folly” subtitled “Pride and refusal to admit mistakes” by distinguished statesman, nationalist and former Sen. Lorenzo M. Tañada. The foreword was written by Jose W. Diokno, also a great nationalist and former senator.The reason I pulled out the...

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From Nuremberg to The Hague

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo  Filed Under: history, War, Armed conflict, Justice & Rights I HAVE always been fascinated by war documentaries, like those on the Nazi era filmed by a woman, Leni Riefenstahl (“Triumph of the Will”), and by soldiers and “embedded” journalists. The ugliness of raw power, the cruelty and suffering as recorded, are enough to make anyone say, “Never again.” On many of these images many...

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Symbolic first $1,000 for each martial law victim

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Filed Under: Human Rights, Government, Martial Law TWO DAYS ago, Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at a little past 10 a.m., I received my check for P43,200 (the equivalent of $1,000). I was the 28th martial law victim/claimant to receive a check on the first day of distribution (for those with surnames beginning with A to E) in Metro Manila. The checks were given out at the Commission...

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