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- Well-known playwright Malou Jacob wonders why brilliant artists like Ericson Acosta are kept in jail by the Aquino government. In this video, Jacob, representing Women Playwrights International-Philippines, demands Acosta's immediate release from the Calbayog Sub-provincial jail.
- National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera, as president of the Philippine chapter of Poets, Essayists and Novelists (PEN) Inc., calls for the immediate release of his young colleague, the poet and essayist Ericson Acosta. Acosta was illegally arrested and tortured by elements of the Philippine Army while conducting human rights research work in Samar, Philippines.
- Dr Gary King, PhD of Amnesty International--Minneapolis expresses concern about the reported torture artist Ericson Acosta suffered from the hands of the Philippine military. King also expressed alarm over the slow resolution of Acosta's petition for review before the Philippine Department of Justice.
- The 1987 Mendiola Massacre was remembered once again in front of the Mendiola bridge in the occasion of the peasants 25 years of struggle for land and justice.
- “The Eezham people have a very direct obligation of fighting for their own sovereignty against a state that presumes to have a unitary power over them,” stressed veteran Filipino left ideologue, Prof. Jose Maria Sison. In an exclusive interview to TamilNet on Sunday, Prof. Sison spoke on the questions of sovereignty of the Eezham Tamil nation, the protracted nature of genocide that Sri Lanka imposes on Tamils in their homelands, the principled position of leftists on the national question, and on the imperative to look beyond both the human rights and reconciliation paradigm. More on http://tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=34803
A progressive Filipino musical: Makata'y Mandirigma, Mandirigma'y Makata
Inspired by Jose Maria Sison's poem The Guerilla is Like a Poet, the musical play weaves together National Artist Prof. Bienvenido Lumbera's epic poetry and the libretto of Palanca award winner Edward Perez for a history of the national democratic movement. Makata'y Mandirigma, Mandirigma'y Makata is a cultural feast of activist songs, some vintage and many new ones, modern choreography with a hint of the revolutionary Peking opera style popular during the First Quarter Storm days, and a play with a central character, Ador, poet, political detainee, husband and father.
If you wish to buy copies of the musicale's DVD please contact: International Committee DEFEND at: defenddemrights@yahoo.com Telephone No.: +31-(0)30-8895306
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Kodao Correspondents
Video correspondence from Kodao's network of alternative and progressive multimedia organizations.
