In Cagayan de Oro City, an artist group combats disinformation and misinformation about Martial Law through a documentary film.
Cagayan de Oro youth sees value in recalling human rights abuses during Martial Law
Tags: Marcos dictatorship
First Person | One year in detention
Jail, after all, is not exempt from society’s great divide based on economic and social status. And even here, the movement for freedom and democracy considers our situation as part of the struggle.
Question Everything | ‘Like the rain falling in torrents on a thousand raging rivers’
We need more testimonies and reports highlighting the lesser-known protests that contributed to the building of a formidable resistance to the dictatorship.
Farmers in the city | The October 21 protest
An illustrated essay on the some of the highlights of the Oct. 21 peasant rally.
Progressives debunk myths about Martial Law
“They [Marcoses] are now using stolen wealth to return to power,” Reyes said in Filipino. “Do not expect Marcos Jr. to change the rotten system, he will exploit this system to return to power just as his father did.”
Mga salitang bawal, mga rehimeng nabuwal
Sa buktot na pagtingin, inaakala ng mga nasa kapangyarihan na ang pagsikil sa pagkalat ng teksto ay sapat na para tuldukan ang mga ideyang nais nilang pigilan. Subalit kasaysayan na rin ang magtuturo, gaya sa mga halimbawang nailahad sa itaas, na ang mga “subersibong ideya” ay hindi lang kalipunan ng mga salita kundi produkto ng kolektibong pagkilos ng mga taong naninindigan.
From La Tondeña to modern day unions: The continuous struggle against dictatorship and oppression
Fast forward 49 years after Marcos imposed Martial Law and used his iron fist to clamp down workers’ rights and workers’ movements, the labor sector continues to rise.
Protesters hurdle police blockades to denounce Duterte’s ‘Marcos-level corruption, tyranny’
“We reject everything that is destructive to the country. We reject those who act as dictators, the son of the dictator, and the lackeys of dictators. ”
Martial law survivors campaign against Marcos-Duterte in 2022
“This tandem will have disastrous impacts on our democracy and our quality of life as Filipinos, considering their bloody, corrupt, and anti-people records.”
The story of Macliing Dulag and the fight for indigenous peoples’ land
Author Luz Maranan said it was important to highlight Dulag’s story as his life embodied not just the fight of the Cordillera people but what it meant to be a hero nowadays, for having defeated a dictator and a destructive project like the Chico Dam.
#Bulatlat20 | Ang Bulatlat laban sa rebisyunismong historikal
Sa paglilinaw ng maraming usaping pangkasaysayan, ipinakita ng Bulatlat na hindi lamang usapin sa kasalukuyan ang paggigiit sa katotohanan. Sa pakikipaglaban sa rebisyunismong historikal, ipinakita ng Bulatlat ang malinaw na tindig, pananaw at pamamaraan ng mapagpalayang pamamahayag na nakasandig sa katotohanan.