Teaching about martial law and its horrors

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   Holocaust survivor, eminent writer and humanist Elie Wiesel said: “How do you teach events that defy knowledge, experiences that go beyond imagination? How do you tell children, big and small, that society could lose its mind and start murdering its own soul and its own future? How do you unveil horrors without offering at the same time some measure of hope? Hope in what? In whom? In...

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Freedom, she wrote

Positively Filipino/Book Review/by Patricio N. Abinales   Book Review: Press Freedom under Siege: Reportage that Challenged the Marcos Dictatorship. Ma. Ceres P. Doyo, editor Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press 2019. 405 pp   What first fascinated me about this anthology is that the women journalists and opinion-writers far outnumbered the men. This discrepancy immediately suggested to me two things. First, despite only...

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For BuCor, a Kiran Bedi

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/ by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   1994 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service Kiran Peshawaria Bedi, a woman officer from the Indian Police Service, was cited for “building confidence in India’s police through dynamic leadership and effective innovations in crime control, drug rehabilitation, and human prison reform.”   I was lucky enough to meet her briefly when the RM Awards Foundation asked me to be in the panel of reactors at Bedi’s public lecture. What a woman! She knew whereof she spoke, and she...

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'U.G.' redux

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/ by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   Just out is the second edition of Benjamin Pimentel’s “U.G. An Underground Tale: The Life and Struggle of Edgar Jopson” (Anvil Publishing). The previous edition had a different subtitle: “The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm Generation” (2006).   This new edition is obviously for millennials and younger, but also still for everybody, among them the “millenniors”...

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