Blog Posts on human face

On borrowed earth by Iloilo Views on Aug 11, 2011As I trudged closer to the mountain’s windy peak, the dark jungle slowly broke open. Then, without warning, a million peach-colored flowers surged forward and I was swallowed waist deep in a lush ocean of color. And I thought, what place on earth i...

‘That she may dance again’ by Iloilo Views on Aug 4, 2011“To become an interruption, perhaps a prophet to the Church hierarchy that for so long has denied women of equal dignity and full humanity.” This is the opening lines of the foreword of the book “That She May Dance Again: Rising from pain of vi...

P-Noy and ‘the grace of office’ by Iloilo Views on Jul 28, 2011WILL “THE grace of office” carry him through? After Benigno Aquino III was proclaimed landslide winner in last year’s presidential elections, I did a page 1 article (May 23, 2010) on the so-called “grace of office” supposedly divinely besto...

Bantay FOI! Sulong FOI! by Iloilo Views on Jul 21, 2011The push for the Freedom of Information (FOI) law has risen from the dead. This time, we hope, the law will be passed and live on for generations of Filipinos to invoke and use to enhance their rights and freedoms. In June last year, during the dying...

Film director puts human face on assisted suicide by Filipino Celebrities News on May 24, 2011NEW YORK – It may appear morose, but the director of a heart-wrenching documentary about doctor-assisted dying in Oregon hopes his film offers an uplifting lesson on how to live life.

From Nuremberg to The Hague by Iloilo Views on Mar 10, 2011I HAVE always been fascinated by war documentaries, like those on the Nazi era filmed by a woman, Leni Riefenstahl (“Triumph of the Will”), and by soldiers and “embedded” journalists. The ugliness of raw power, the cruelty and suffering as re...

Symbolic first $1,000 for each martial law victim by Iloilo Views on Mar 3, 2011TWO DAYS ago, Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at a little past 10 a.m., I received my check for P43,200 (the equivalent of $1,000). I was the 28th martial law victim/claimant to receive a check on the first day of distribution (for those with surnames beginn...

1986 bishops’ power: like the wrath of God by Iloilo Views on Feb 24, 2011(This is a much shortened, revised version of my long article that came out in the Mr. and Ms. Special edition, Feb. 21-27, 1986. This is about how the Catholic bishops weighed in to help effect a tipping point. ) FINALLY SOMETHING was beginning to u...

Blame game in Reyes’ suicide by Iloilo Views on Feb 9, 2011A NUN I know very well keeps a photo of her grade school class to which she and former Armed Forces Chief of Staff Angelo T. Reyes belonged. Reyes, she told me, was a big, bright kid, one of the good boys who would walk her home after class hours. Th...

Hail, Heidi by Iloilo Views on Feb 2, 2011I WRITE this piece to add to the many voices and written pieces hailing the good, the true and the wonderful that have risen out of the deadly scum that threatens to drown this nation. This hurried piece may not sound like a piece of erudition but I...