Category: Ninoy Aquino

Palitan na lang kaya ng dilaw ang watawat ng Pilipinas

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Sen. Bongbong Marcos after delivering the sponsorship speech to name Iloilo highways after parents of President Aquino and Leyte highway after his uncle.

Sen. Bongbong Marcos after delivering the sponsorship speech to name Iloilo highways after parents of President Aquino and Leyte highway after his uncle.

Siguro naman seryoso si Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. sa kanyang pag-sponsor ng mga batas na ipangalan sa maa magulang ni Pangulong Aquino ang dalawang kalsada doon sa Panay.

Ang dalawang batas ay ideya ng mga kongresista na sina Arcadio H. Garriceta, Ronald M. Cosalan, Jerry P. Treñas, Arthur R. Defensor Jr., Neil C. Tiupas, Oscar “Richard” S. Garin Jr., atd Hernan G. Biron Jr. na nakasaad sa House Bills HB 4400 at HB 4398.

Nakasaad sa HB4400 na ipapangalan kay dating Pangulong Cory Aquino ang apat na lane na circumferential road simula sa kanto ng Iloilo-Dumangas Coastal Road sa Balabago, Jaro District, Iloilo City, papunta sa Buhang, Jaro, Tacas, Jaro at UngKa II, Pavia hanggang sa Mandurriao District, Iloilo City-Pavia-San Miguel . Aabot ang kalsada sa malapit Arevalo District sa Iloilo-Antique Road . Magiging “President Cory C. Aquino Avenue” ang kalsada.

Sa HB 4398 naman, gagawing “Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr” Avenue ang buong haba ng national highway sakop ang Iloilo Diversion Road/Iloilo Capiz Road na nagsisimula sa kanto ng General Luna hanggang sa gate ng Iloilo International Airport. Dadaan ang kalsada sa bayan ng Pavia, Sta. Barbara, Cabatuan, at Iloilo City.
Hindi lang naman ang mga magulang ni Pangulong Aquino ang nasa-isip ni Sen. Marcos. Inisip din niya ang ang kanyang tiyo na si Benjamin “Kokoy” Romualdez, dating gubernador ng Leyte at ambassador ng Pilipinas sa United States.

Ipinasa sa mababang kapulungan ang HB 1042 na ginawa nina Conmgressman Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez at Ronald M. Cosalan.

Ayun daw kasi sa National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), maaring ipangalan sa mga kalsada na may “historical and cultural significance” ay makadagdag sa ating pagpahangala ng ating pagmamahal at pagmamalaki sa bayan. Kailangan daw hindi bababa sa sampung taon nang namayapa ang taong bigyan ng dangal sa pagpapangalan sa kanya ng kalsada.

Sorry, hindi pa tayo magkakaroon ng Kris Aquino Boulevard o Bimby Aquino Yap Boulevard.

Kamakailan lang inaprubahan na ang House committee on public works and highways na palitan ang pangalan ng North Luzon Expressway (NLEx) ng President Corazon C. Aquino Expressway (CAEX).

Sa Bicol naman,sabi ni Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson na ang ginagawa nilang highway sa Camarines Norte ay magiging “President Cory Aquino Boulevard.”

New Ant species named after former Pres. Cory Aquino. From ABS-CBN.

New Ant species named after former Pres. Cory Aquino. From ABS-CBN.


Hindi lang kalsada ang ipinapangalanan sa mga magulang ni Pangulong Aquino. Ipinangalanan din ng Museum of National History of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) ang bagong species ng langgam na kanilang nadiskubre sa kagubatan ng Palawan kay dating Pangulong Cory Aquino.

Kulang pa yata yan. Palitan na lang kaya natin ng dilaw ang ating watawat.

Palitan na lang kaya ng dilaw ang watawat ng Pilipinas

Ellen Leave a comment

Sen. Bongbong Marcos after delivering the sponsorship speech to name Iloilo highways after parents of President Aquino and Leyte highway after his uncle.

Sen. Bongbong Marcos after delivering the sponsorship speech to name Iloilo highways after parents of President Aquino and Leyte highway after his uncle.

Siguro naman seryoso si Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. sa kanyang pag-sponsor ng mga batas na ipangalan sa maa magulang ni Pangulong Aquino ang dalawang kalsada doon sa Panay.

Ang dalawang batas ay ideya ng mga kongresista na sina Arcadio H. Garriceta, Ronald M. Cosalan, Jerry P. Treñas, Arthur R. Defensor Jr., Neil C. Tiupas, Oscar “Richard” S. Garin Jr., atd Hernan G. Biron Jr. na nakasaad sa House Bills HB 4400 at HB 4398.

Nakasaad sa HB4400 na ipapangalan kay dating Pangulong Cory Aquino ang apat na lane na circumferential road simula sa kanto ng Iloilo-Dumangas Coastal Road sa Balabago, Jaro District, Iloilo City, papunta sa Buhang, Jaro, Tacas, Jaro at UngKa II, Pavia hanggang sa Mandurriao District, Iloilo City-Pavia-San Miguel . Aabot ang kalsada sa malapit Arevalo District sa Iloilo-Antique Road . Magiging “President Cory C. Aquino Avenue” ang kalsada.

Sa HB 4398 naman, gagawing “Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr” Avenue ang buong haba ng national highway sakop ang Iloilo Diversion Road/Iloilo Capiz Road na nagsisimula sa kanto ng General Luna hanggang sa gate ng Iloilo International Airport. Dadaan ang kalsada sa bayan ng Pavia, Sta. Barbara, Cabatuan, at Iloilo City.
Hindi lang naman ang mga magulang ni Pangulong Aquino ang nasa-isip ni Sen. Marcos. Inisip din niya ang ang kanyang tiyo na si Benjamin “Kokoy” Romualdez, dating gubernador ng Leyte at ambassador ng Pilipinas sa United States.

Ipinasa sa mababang kapulungan ang HB 1042 na ginawa nina Conmgressman Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez at Ronald M. Cosalan.

Ayun daw kasi sa National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), maaring ipangalan sa mga kalsada na may “historical and cultural significance” ay makadagdag sa ating pagpahangala ng ating pagmamahal at pagmamalaki sa bayan. Kailangan daw hindi bababa sa sampung taon nang namayapa ang taong bigyan ng dangal sa pagpapangalan sa kanya ng kalsada.

Sorry, hindi pa tayo magkakaroon ng Kris Aquino Boulevard o Bimby Aquino Yap Boulevard.

Kamakailan lang inaprubahan na ang House committee on public works and highways na palitan ang pangalan ng North Luzon Expressway (NLEx) ng President Corazon C. Aquino Expressway (CAEX).

Sa Bicol naman,sabi ni Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson na ang ginagawa nilang highway sa Camarines Norte ay magiging “President Cory Aquino Boulevard.”

New Ant species named after former Pres. Cory Aquino. From ABS-CBN.

New Ant species named after former Pres. Cory Aquino. From ABS-CBN.


Hindi lang kalsada ang ipinapangalanan sa mga magulang ni Pangulong Aquino. Ipinangalanan din ng Museum of National History of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) ang bagong species ng langgam na kanilang nadiskubre sa kagubatan ng Palawan kay dating Pangulong Cory Aquino.

Kulang pa yata yan. Palitan na lang kaya natin ng dilaw ang ating watawat.

Palitan na lang kaya ng dilaw ang watawat ng Pilipinas

Ellen Leave a comment

Sen. Bongbong Marcos after delivering the sponsorship speech to name Iloilo highways after parents of President Aquino and Leyte highway after his uncle.

Sen. Bongbong Marcos after delivering the sponsorship speech to name Iloilo highways after parents of President Aquino and Leyte highway after his uncle.

Siguro naman seryoso si Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. sa kanyang pag-sponsor ng mga batas na ipangalan sa maa magulang ni Pangulong Aquino ang dalawang kalsada doon sa Panay.

Ang dalawang batas ay ideya ng mga kongresista na sina Arcadio H. Garriceta, Ronald M. Cosalan, Jerry P. Treñas, Arthur R. Defensor Jr., Neil C. Tiupas, Oscar “Richard” S. Garin Jr., atd Hernan G. Biron Jr. na nakasaad sa House Bills HB 4400 at HB 4398.

Nakasaad sa HB4400 na ipapangalan kay dating Pangulong Cory Aquino ang apat na lane na circumferential road simula sa kanto ng Iloilo-Dumangas Coastal Road sa Balabago, Jaro District, Iloilo City, papunta sa Buhang, Jaro, Tacas, Jaro at UngKa II, Pavia hanggang sa Mandurriao District, Iloilo City-Pavia-San Miguel . Aabot ang kalsada sa malapit Arevalo District sa Iloilo-Antique Road . Magiging “President Cory C. Aquino Avenue” ang kalsada.

Sa HB 4398 naman, gagawing “Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr” Avenue ang buong haba ng national highway sakop ang Iloilo Diversion Road/Iloilo Capiz Road na nagsisimula sa kanto ng General Luna hanggang sa gate ng Iloilo International Airport. Dadaan ang kalsada sa bayan ng Pavia, Sta. Barbara, Cabatuan, at Iloilo City.
Hindi lang naman ang mga magulang ni Pangulong Aquino ang nasa-isip ni Sen. Marcos. Inisip din niya ang ang kanyang tiyo na si Benjamin “Kokoy” Romualdez, dating gubernador ng Leyte at ambassador ng Pilipinas sa United States.

Ipinasa sa mababang kapulungan ang HB 1042 na ginawa nina Conmgressman Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez at Ronald M. Cosalan.

Ayun daw kasi sa National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), maaring ipangalan sa mga kalsada na may “historical and cultural significance” ay makadagdag sa ating pagpahangala ng ating pagmamahal at pagmamalaki sa bayan. Kailangan daw hindi bababa sa sampung taon nang namayapa ang taong bigyan ng dangal sa pagpapangalan sa kanya ng kalsada.

Sorry, hindi pa tayo magkakaroon ng Kris Aquino Boulevard o Bimby Aquino Yap Boulevard.

Kamakailan lang inaprubahan na ang House committee on public works and highways na palitan ang pangalan ng North Luzon Expressway (NLEx) ng President Corazon C. Aquino Expressway (CAEX).

Sa Bicol naman,sabi ni Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson na ang ginagawa nilang highway sa Camarines Norte ay magiging “President Cory Aquino Boulevard.”

New Ant species named after former Pres. Cory Aquino. From ABS-CBN.

New Ant species named after former Pres. Cory Aquino. From ABS-CBN.


Hindi lang kalsada ang ipinapangalanan sa mga magulang ni Pangulong Aquino. Ipinangalanan din ng Museum of National History of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) ang bagong species ng langgam na kanilang nadiskubre sa kagubatan ng Palawan kay dating Pangulong Cory Aquino.

Kulang pa yata yan. Palitan na lang kaya natin ng dilaw ang ating watawat.

Memory, Martial Law, and Ninoy Aquino

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THE WORD “memory” traces its roots to the Latin word “memoria” and “memor,” meaning “mindful” or “remembering.”

It is defined as the human mind’s ability to “encode, sort, retain, and subsequently recall information and past experiences in the human brain.” The website human-memory.net also said that memory can be “be thought of in general terms as the use of past experience to affect or influence current behavior.”

Sociologists also talk about “collective memory” – coined by the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (“The Collective Memory”), which is defined as a construction of created narratives and traditions to give people a sense of community to understand an event or a “social phenomena.”

The declaration by President Ferdinand Marcos of Martial Law in the Philippines on September 21, 1972 is a social phenomena. The debate over his role and how society should judge the Marcoses who are still in power was renewed recently.

Some say that the country was better off under Marcos. They say we need need an iron fist for the Philippines to progress. Others believe that those who have not experienced or seen the horrors of Martial Law are the only ones who would favor it.

Some say, however, that the lack of understanding about Martial Law, especially those belonging to the young generation, is because the nation lack of a sense of history, a collective memory. Not much sense is made of the past, the horrors, sufferings, and hardships under Martial Law.

The most prominent victim of Martial Law was then Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., an opposition solon who was imprisoned by Marcos. He was placed in solitary confinement for more than seven years, suffered a heart attack, and was sent to the United States for treatment.

He returned August 21, 1983 and was gunned down on the tarmac of what was then the Manila International Airport that was renamed in his honor several years after his wife, Corazon Aquino, assumed the presidency through a military-backed people’s uprising in February 1986.

It was not only Aquino who suffered under the dictatorship. At least 9,000 more were imprisoned, tortured, and killed during what is now being called as the darkest days in Philippine history based on the records that TFD holds it in its files.

This is the collective memory that the Task Force Detainees want Filipinos to have to point the nation in the right direction.

This video short by PCIJ deputy producer Cong Corrales tells us about this museum as the death anniversary of Ninoy Aquino nears.

Indeed, as the movie says, without memories, there would only be “the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.”

Forgotten details from an old story

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Ninoy at the tarmacBy Luz Rimban, VERA Files

THE photograph is 30 years old, but it provides startling details to an old, almost forgotten story.

Taken by a Japanese photographer, the picture came out in the Sept. 5, 1983 issue of Time Magazine. It showed the apparent lifeless body of former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. whose murder on the tarmac in broad daylight on Aug. 21 shocked the world.

“I saw it when I first saw the photo in 1983, and no one has really taken notice of it,” said a VERA Files reader who sent the photograph, referring to a crucial detail the picture reveals.

“It shows that Ninoy raised both his feet by about two to three inches above the ground (see the shadow of the raised shoes) indicating he was still alive,” he added. “All other photos taken by other journalists later show both Ninoy’s feet flat on the tarmac.”

The photo can be considered another piece of journalistic evidence, one among many that helped piece together what really happened moments after Aquino stepped out of the China Airlines plane that early afternoon.

Please click here (VERA Files) for the rest of the story.