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Six women and their stories in pursuit of justice
By Lindy Rosales On a cloudy spring day, it was a pleasure to walk through the verdant grounds of Harvard University on the way to the Asean Center. Parking is a scarcity in this university town unless you have a resident permit, or it’s a Sunday. We were to attend the book launch of “Six […]
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Continuing the Philippine Independence Day tradition of marching on Madison Avenue
By Cristina DC Pastor The parade weaved the crowd together, one organization after another: The nurses with the Knights of Rizal with the indigenous dancers with the provincial floats with the teachers with the pageant beauties in their flashy tiaras and so on, their magnificent colors blending into the lingering line of marchers. It was […]
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What have we learned from the GomBurZa past?
By Allen Gaborro In 1872, in what was pre-revolutionary Philippines, an atmosphere of intrepidness, nationalism, and self-awakening descended on Filipinos as three Roman Catholic priests were unjustly put to death by the Spanish colonial authorities. The trinity of priests (Mariano Gómes, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora), were garroted—after what was widely believed to be a […]
