'Harana.' food and memories

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo These past weeks and months I’ve been watching stage productions, documentaries and films, attending events and gatherings that dealt mostly with our human rights and the tyrants, despots and plunderers that oppressed us in times past, on how to be vigilant so that we will not be in shackles ever again. So it was quite a change to receive an invitation to a “harana songfest” honoring and...

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Preists, religious fought Marcos tyranny

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   Etched on the Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani are the names of 27 priests/pastors and religious (women and men) who fought the Marcos dictatorship. A number of them died violent deaths or are counted among the desaparecidos (the disappeared). Many of them fought and died without seeing the dawn. The others continued the fight to end tyranny and died after freedom had...

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'Pagsambang Bayan, the musical': liturgy of the masses

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by MA. CERES P. DOYO In 1977 I watched the staging of Bonifacio Ilagan’s “Pagsambang Bayan” at the University of the Philippines and was blown away. Martial rule was then in effect under the Marcos dictatorship. But Ilagan, just freed from detention, came up with the daring opus. That version was directed by Behn Cervantes who was rearrested and jailed soon after. After 40 years, “Pagsambang Bayan” is again...

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