Mental health and political leaders

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   Bigkis of the University of the Philippines Manila and other youth organizations launched last Monday the Semicolon Project, which aims to raise awareness on mental health and to push for the passage of legislation on mental health. The Semicolon Project, a global advocacy, also hopes to spread information on counseling services as well as the activities of groups espousing mental health.   Why...

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Martial law massacres

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo The vigilance and defiance of a people against a despot won in the end. Those who fell in the night did not die in vain. Tyrannical rule, abuse of power and unprecedented plunder committed against a nation forced to its knees shall not see a repeat. On the 44th anniversary of the declaration of martial law that threw the Philippines into darkness for 14 years (1972-1986), it behooves us...

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Nanlabán, patay

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo As soon as you switch on the television to watch the news in Filipino, the word you hear again and again and again is “patay” (dead). The word comes as different parts of speech (noun, verb, etc.) and in different tenses and conjugations-pinatay, pinapatay, pumatay, pumapatay, napatay. Drug-related, of course. The other word of the season is “nanlabán” (fought back). Filipino grammarians...

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Q & A with Sr. Mary John Mananzan, documenting Philippine church history from the viewpoint of the 'vanquished'

Global Sisters Report/ Q & A/ by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo There is no dearth of information on how colonial history unfolded in the Philippines and how Christianity was implanted, making the Philippines the only country in Asia with a majority Christian population for centuries until East Timor became independent from Indonesia more than a decade ago. But these historical facts were written about by the conquistadores during the early years...

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Marcos 'war medals' exposed, questioned (conclusion)

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Because of the outcry of tens of thousands of victims of the Marcos dictatorship over Pres. Duterte’s plan to bury in the Libingan ng mga Bayani the corpse of president-dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. who died in Hawaii in 1989, I serialized here, in four parts, “The Other Version of FM’s War Exploits”  by Bonifacio Gillego published in WE Forum in November 1982.  The piece had caused the raid and closure of WE Forum and the arrest of editor Jose Burgos Jr. and staff. (Read footnote below.)...

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Marcos 'war medals' exposed, questioned (3)

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Because of the outcry of tens of thousands of victims of the Marcos dictatorship over President Duterte’s plan to bury in the Libingan ng mga Bayani the corpse of former president-dictator Ferdinand Marcos who died in Hawaii in 1989, I am serializing the piece “The Other Version of FM’s War Exploits” by Bonifacio Gillego published in WE Forum in November 1982. It was written for a major US newspaper but publication was withheld because of Marcos’ state visit. The long piece caused the raid...

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