COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACE‘Chasing Windmills’By: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM December 30, 2022Eyes are on the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands, where Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP) founder Jose Ma. Sison died on Dec. 16 after his almost four decades in the land of windmills. Utrecht is where a group of Filipinos is on self-exile, working for decades to promote the fulfillment...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEFlashback: Ceasefire 1986By: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet05:05 AM December 23, 2022With the death on Dec. 16 in the Netherlands of Jose Maria Sison, 83, founding head of the Communist Party of the Philippines/National Democratic Front/New People’s Army (CPP-NDF-NPA), speculations are rife on what’s ahead for the world’s longest running insurgency which is in the Philippines. No peace talks or ceasefire...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACE‘Christmask’ and other thoughtsBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM December 16, 2022It has been all of three years. How time moved exceedingly slow during the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic that the world went through, that you and I endured and survived, but which millions did not. How the world stood still and was shuttered. Although not totally because...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEObject of ridicule, suspicion, derisionBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM December 09, 2022Many Filipinos, when faced with something against them that seems insurmountable, go into the “if you can’t lick them, laugh at them” mode. And not just laugh, but ridicule their adversaries till the carabaos come home. They hurl satires, caricatures, jingles, and memes in the hope that they could bring the monster to its knees. (Remember the Pharmally anomaly jingle sung...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEEnd violence vs women, De LimaBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM December 02, 2022Launched in 2008 under the United Nations, the UNITE to End Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) initiative is “a multiyear effort to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls around the world.” It was initiated to support the civil society-led 16 Days of Activism...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEPrison movies and other ruminationsBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM November 25, 2022That in the movie world there is a so-called prison genre means that so many movies on prison life have been made. So these movies are in a genre of their own.ADVERTISEMENTWhen we are faced with something that seems incredible, we are likely to remark that it happens only in...

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