![]() His only fault, his son and namesake recently told an interviewer, was that he cared too much about Filipinos.Įdita Burgos remembers the Marcos period differently. To hear him tell it, the elder Marcos – who is believed to have stolen $10 billion from the Philippines before his ousting in 1986 – was a hardworking and collaborative leader who was forced to declare a nine-year martial law to protect his country from the overwhelming threat of communism. insists that his father was not a dictator. “We only reach progressive thinkers and those who understand the importance of history.” we haven’t even scratched the surface,” she adds. Burgos says saving history from distortion “is the job of honest people,” and that new initiatives aimed at defending truth “give us – the older people who live through martial law – encouragement and hope that the dark days will never be forgotten.” Some have started digitizing 1970s archives, while others search for ways to bring survivors’ stories to new audiences. The family’s success has been a wake-up call for many Filipinos, who are rushing to protect and promote firsthand accounts of martial law. Marcos continues to harness social media to spread misinformation about his family’s legacy and ongoing court battles. in the Philippines, many are rushing to safeguard archives and promote public history. ![]() In a country where misinformation is rampant, how are truth-telling citizens working to turn the tide? After the election victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. An official for a Cleveland-area school district recently told the Monitor that “taking the time to actually listen and absorb and immerse ourselves into different cultures … has been really exciting.” In our greatest challenges are often our greatest opportunities for growth, if we are inclined to accept them. And we wrote here about a “Friendsgiving” among Jews and Muslims at Carnegie Mellon University. Today’s editorial looks at how to reset the free speech conversation on campus. And from the increasingly liberal orthodoxy of many universities to conservative book-banning, the bedrock American commitment to free speech is under threat.Yet there is another way. Cancel culture reigns, aiming to punish rather than to understand. Her comments were seen as too soft in condemning calls for a genocide against Jews. Schools and universities are facing an incredibly difficult situation, as we’ve written. It went so badly that the president of the University of Pennsylvania resigned this weekend. ![]() university presidents about antisemitism on campus. Instead of participating in Red-tagging, the AFP and PNP should maintain their neutrality, avoid partisanship, and not allow themselves to be used by the Marcos-Duterte camp to intervene in a civilian democratic exercise in the guise of an anachronistic, anti-communist crusade.Some of you might have heard about the recent congressional hearing with top U.S. Under the Duterte administration, much like the dark years of martial law under Marcos, manufactured accusations of communist infiltration have become preposterous because anyone and anything that threatens the interests of the Dutertes and Marcoses is tagged as communistic and terroristic. Duterte lamely rehashed Lacson’s line of a “communist coalition with the opposition,” the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) has chimed in with its malicious claims even as the Philippine National Police said it will already investigate the matter. Boying Remulla’s false accusations of “communist rebel” participation in Leni-Kiko’s campaign sorties in the province. This can be seen in the latest case of harassment of Anakpawis urban poor members in Cavite in the wake of Sen. Red-tagging poses a danger to the very lives of its victims. Kiko Pangilinan, and a diverse array of civil society and democratic forces. We progressive faculty at the University of the Philippines Diliman under the Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy expresses alarm over the Duterte regime’s warning of “communist infiltration” of opposition campaign rallies to “disrupt the elections.” We believe President Duterte’s baseless fabrications of a “communist plot” is a flimsy excuse for a brewing crackdown on the broad political opposition led by Vice President Leni Robredo and Sen.
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