It was the morning of Sept. 23, 1972. A driver from the Philippine Graphic magazine, where I worked,...
I’m just like you, you’re just like me… but we’d vote so differently… My mother, Ninez Cacho-Olivares, a journalist and...
In commemoration of the Edsa Revolution, Adarna Publishing House (adarna.com.ph) released a #NeverAgain bundle, five children’s books on dictatorship, Edsa...
On the commemoration of the martial law declaration in the Philippines on Sept. 21, human rights organization Dakila launched the...
The passage of time can distort how we remember the truth. In the age of disinformation, some people use social...
I don’t mean to be all “back in the day, yo…” But recent netizen calls to #defendUP, in response to...
In a grungy cellar bar, a young crowd sings along to a melancholy ballad in Ukrainian. Nothing unusual here — except...
The musical is where ghosts of the past become the beacon of the present.
“Martial law is the best thing that happened to the Philippines in 1972. We won’t be the developing country that we are right now if it wasn’t for the Marcoses. Learn your history,” says the social media account without a real name
We purposely chose this day (Sept. 21, the infamous martial law day) so that we would not forget the lessons of history,” said CB Garrucho, president of the Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta). She spoke at the opening of the company’s 51st theater season, titled “Stage of the Nation,” at the Peta Theater Center in Quezon City.
