Young Jun Aparece pricked up his ears when Bobby Alonto began to tune the guitar. In the Muslim dormitory, on Mindanao State University’s main campus, Alonto and his brothers were about to launch into a chorus lauding their Moro people’s age-old, ongoing struggle for self-rule. It was the early 1980s, and nearly two decades of dictator Ferdinand …
Tag: History
MORO AUTONOMY: A MINDANAOAN CHRISTIAN’S THIRTY-YEAR ADVOCACY
- By Jonathan Cranston
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30.June.2015
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30.June.2015
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JUN APARECE: HARD LESSONS OF THE PURGE
- By Jonathan Cranston
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21.June.2015
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21.June.2015
During the final years of the Martial Law era in the Philippines, massive dissatisfaction with President Marcos’s brutal dictatorship prompted thousands of idealistic young Filipinos to align themselves with the Philippines’ various rebel fronts. Most joined up with the leftist revolutionaries of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA), and …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2015/06/hard-lessons-of-the-purge/
TALAANDIG DAY: ACTIVISM THROUGH CELEBRATION
- By Jonathan Cranston
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15.October.2014
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15.October.2014
Mingled with the joyfulness, feasting, fellowship, dancing and revelry of the Talaandig Day celebrations held in the heart of the Talaandig Ancestral Domain in Lantapan, Bukidnon this week there was also a measure of mourning. A doleful shadow overhung the gathering of Talaandig tribespeople and their supporters, and the dances of the tribe’s children and grandmothers …
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