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its of what i used to believe as the limits to my abilities and skills but apart from these i learned and still learn from ka raffy how to live with integrity i know this sounds stilted but this is the only way i can describe this rafael baylosis is a great father a loving husband a supportive comrade an intellectual and a dreamer he has since he became an activist at 18 in up diliman a friend and comrade of the likes of then 21 year old jose ma sison and other veterans of the first quarter storm and the diliman commune lived plainly and simply but always his actions and thoughts have been profoundly in service to a cause greater to himself after presiding over important campaign or consultation meetings he washes the dishes after meal times in the anakpawis headquarters and cleans the conference room he always ask after the health of kasamas or how they re doing in their respective line of work he makes silly and corny jokes that people often laugh at not so much because the jokes themselves are funny but because they are amused at ka raffy s boyishness he is a calm and confident leader in rallies and demonstrations a fiery public speaker a well read ideologue a lover of music and a great cook well they say he is i m too finicky an eater to actually try his more complicated ilocano dishes made up of well various vegetables i m not crazy for vegetables ka raffy is capable of compelling such fierce loyalty because to put it plainly he is such a good person and worthy of the highest respect approachable and light hearted young activists like myself can always rely on ka raffy to give comforting but well grounded advice while an understanding and tolerant person he is strict when it comes to the core activist principles and their application to work and living i am no end humbled and awed at how such an evolved human being a well known and highly respected individual in the kilusan sees it fit to trust me with his confidence and guide me through my political work and growth as an activist though right now and often in the last seven years i give him headaches because of my stubborn nature it is one of my life s highest ambitions to make ka raffy proud of me because i am so proud and honored to say that what i am today and what i am capable of doing and achieving for the kilusan is largely because of his influence he is my jedi master and i hope never to be like anakin skywalker but to be as obiwan kenobi he trains and teaches by example and this i think is the best way to teach he along with crispin ka bel beltran are the biggest political and personal influences in my life from them i learn not only how to be activist but to be hopefully a good person often to be worthy of one s teachers to be a good person are the highest and best things one should hope to be comments leave a comment tags anakpawis ndfp rafael baylosis categories personal reflection oplan bayanihan 4 04 2011 habi arts a los angeles based u s filipino cultural organization designed this image poster to remind the public that nothing has changed under the new oplan bayanihan human rights violations persist under the military s watch comments leave a comment tags armed forces of the philippines noy noy aquino oplan bayanihan categories kultural art as a weapon eman lacaba the brown rimbaud 3 04 2011 the tenth of december is marked as international human rights day the first international human rights day fell on december 10 1948 when the universal declaration of human rights which declares all people to be free and to have equal rights and dignity and enumerates all human rights was adopted by the united nations general assembly by alexander martin remollino bulatlat com eman lacaba poet and warrior the tenth of december is marked as international human rights day the first international human rights day fell on december 10 1948 when the universal declaration of human rights which declares all people to be free and to have equal rights and dignity and enumerates all human rights was adopted by the united nations general assembly on international human rights day it is fitting to remember the late filipino writer and revolutionary emmanuel agapito eman lacaba he was born on the very day the universal declaration of human rights was adopted by the un general assembly he lost his life at the height of martial law a victim of a human rights violation eman lacaba was born and raised in pateros in an essay he wrote as a high school student personal statement of emmanuel lacaba which his brother jose more popularly known as pete believes was written in connection with his application for an american field service afs scholarship he described his family thus our family is neither rich nor very poor at least we have enough to live on enfant terrible eman lacaba has often been compared to the french poet arthur rimbaud a fact he himself alluded to in one of his poems open letters to filipino artists where he told of his being called the brown rimbaud the comparison stems from the fact that he was like rimbaud an enfant terrible a literary virtuoso at a very young age he started writing poetry at 14 and did so like a master even then the similarity between them became all the more striking when he lost his life without reaching his fortieth year just like rimbaud he began to display vast and varied talents at a very young age he learned to read early and was a very voracious reader before he was in high school reading everything as he said from the bible to mad from newspapers to encyclopedias from physics to law and business books from mathematics to poetry from first grade to his last year in high school he was at the top of his class a brilliant and prolific writer at a young age he became editor in chief of the high school paper he was also a versatile athlete he played basketball soccer and was into track and field he was an excellent actor on the stage in recognition of his leadership skills his schoolmates gave him many of the top positions in school organizations he was class president from fifth grade to his last year in high school he became president of the high school drama club and the high school student council he received almost all of his pre university education from the pasig catholic college while still a student of this school he applied for and received an afs scholarship through which he got to spend an entire school year in the united states after high school he had the chance to choose among no less than three scholarships from the university of the philippines up the ateneo de manila university and de la salle university he chose the manuel de leon scholarship at the ateneo de manila university where he took a bachelor of arts in humanities and maintained it until he completed his course this despite the fact that he spent much of his time away from the classroom writing or doing research writer activist if there is something eman lacaba is most noted for it is for having been a writer activist he was a poet essayist playwright fictionist and scriptwriter who joined the protest movement in his student days and later lost his life as an armed revolutionary it was at the ateneo that he began to be involved in social and political causes he was part of a group which fought for the filipinization of the university administration which was then largely american led and the use of filipino as medium of instruction his group also called on their schoolmates to immerse themselves in the issues which had begun to galvanize their fellow students at up in his early days as an activist his poetry began to show signs of the road he was to take for the rest of his life with his increasingly frequent use of the image of icarus a greek mythological character who burned his wings fell to the sea and died because he flew too close to the sun an often used symbol for those who perish in the pursuit of lofty causes he also joined panday sining the cultural arm of the militant kabataang makabayan and is believed to have participated in the first quarter storm in his college days he frequently commuted between the bohemian life and activism it was only after college that he would turn his back on the former before he graduated from college he won a major literary award for punch and judas a short novel depicting the transformation of an intellectual felipe philip angeles from bohemian to activist after college he taught rizal s life and works at up and got involved in the labor movement he also became a member of the militant writers group panulat para sa kaunlaran ng sambayanan just two months before the declaration of martial law he was among a number of picketers at a small factory in pasig who faced threats and truncheons from the police while the strike was being dispersed he was arrested and briefly incarcerated after that he became active on the stage writing and acting in plays he also assisted in film productions and among his compiled writings are a number of unfinished film storylines he wrote the lyrics for the theme song of the lino brocka directed movie tinimbang ka ngunit kulang which takes potshots at the hypocrisy of society in 1975 he set out for mindanao to cast his lot with the armed revolutionary movement to become a people s warrior as he later called himself in a poem such was his passion for writing that he wrote even while leading the life of a revolutionary guerilla it was in the hills in fact that he wrote one of the poems he is best remembered for open letters to filipino artists where he wrote of the armed revolutionary movement thus we are tribeless and all tribes are ours we are homeless and all homes are ours we are nameless and all names are ours to the fascists we are the faceless enemy who come like thieves in the night angels of death the ever moving shining secret eye of the storm death of a people s warrior at dawn sometime in march 1976 death came for eman lacaba at this time he was set to go back shortly to the city for a new assignment that would have used his writing skills and had even agreed to write a script for lino brocka once he got back there it was not yet six in the morning eman and three other companions were having breakfast in a peasant s hut outside the house were their wet clothes and shoes left there to dry elements of an armed team made up of philippine constabulary pc men and members of the civilian home defense front chdf were with a certain martin a member of eman s unit who had earlier been captured by the military they happened to pass by the house where eman and his companions were having breakfast martin recognized the clothes and shoes and pointed out the house to the pc chdf team who immediately opened fire without calling on the occupants to surrender after a brief gunfight two of the hut s occupants were killed including the leader of eman s group while eman and estrieta a pregnant teenager were wounded the pc chdf team headed for tagum with eman and estrieta with villagers carrying the corpses however a few kilometers from the village the sergeant of the pc chdf team decided not to bring back anyone alive estrieta was the first to go the sergeant then handed a 45 to martin and ordered him to shoot eman he did not want to but in the end eman himself said to him go ahead finish me off a bullet was fired through his mouth crashing through the back of his skull as he fell another bullet was fired at his chest he was 27 bulatlat co comments 1 comment tags 1st quarter storm brown rimbaud eman lacaba kabataang makabayan kaunlaran ng sambayanan open letters to filipino artists panday sining categories kultural art as a weapon poem testament of an unknown revolutionary 20 03 2011 after a one year hiatus i am back with a repost of testament of an unknown revolutionary flames of revolution still continue in the philippines and around the world despite counter insurgency tactics led by u s imperialists their allies and their reactionary puppets testament of an unknown revolutionary by robert whymant published in the guardian on january 21 1974 whether solita esternon is her real name her alias in the revolutionary movement or an arbitrary invention still remains unknown to the interrogators in the military prison at sorsogon what they have established so far is that the woman they are holding is a 24 year old university student and a cadre in the maoist guerrilla organization the new people s army npa until she was caught in december they have found too that she is four months pregnant according to her captors the para military philippines constabulary she s a hard core case she was carrying a loaded 3 calibre pistol when arrested and is believed to have been entrusted with the delicate task of establishing a base in sorsogon city her rigid espousal of the necessity for armed struggle her refusal to compromise by disclosing information about her comrades whereabouts will make her a tough subject to re educate they say read the rest of this entry comments 1 comment tags ferdinand marcos lorena barros maoist new people s army npa philippines robert whymant solita esternon sorsogon city categories women hold up half the sky who watches the watchmen 19 01 2011 courtesy of getty images when disgruntled former senior inspector rolando mendoza of the manila police district mpd stormed and hijacked a tour bus carrying 25 people 20 of whom are from hong kong on august 23 rd of 2010 he set the world s eyes on the philippines and the world was about to find out the inadequate handling of the justice and legal system that filipino families have lived through for generations on tuesday the department of interior and local government dilg and national police commission nalpolcom chairman jesse m robredo had been on the job for only 6 months before scandals littered his office with inquiries what will the police commission do to discipline and guide the department out of a national crisis 150 dismissed cops became the scapegoat to a larger issue of corruption policeman in manila tortures a man for stealing a youtube video gone viral internationally also showcased the philippine national police pnp who swore an oath to serve and protect the people but tortured a man for stealing the tortured man was whipped and had his genitals pulled by a rope from the cases it was learned that two top dilg officials who are responsible for the day to day operations of the philippine national police pnp were not seeing eye to eye and were fighting over the department s resources and control failure from the government to properly and diligently handle the police crisis prompted several foreign governments to issue a traveling ban to the philippines worst the filipino people were ashamed and alarmed of the national scandals that seemed to make headlines every week filipino confidence in their protectors eroded since then nearly 800 policemen faced dismissal almost 700 policemen were forced to undergo retraining 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