Ateneo de Manila University,also known simply as Ateneo de Manila or Ateneo,is a private,Catholic research university and basic education institution in Quezon City,Philippines. Founded in 1859 by the Jesuits,it is the second-oldest Jesuit-administered institution of higher learning in the Asia-Pacific.
Raul Sevilla Manglapus was a prominent post–World War II Filipino politician and songwriter. He co-founded the reformist Progressive Party of the Philippines and the Christian Democratic Socialist Movement in 1968.
Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino and American journalist. She is the co-founder and CEO of Rappler. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN. She will become Professor of Professional Practice in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University on July 1,2024,and will be a Distinguished Fellow at Columbia's new Institute of Global Politics beginning in the fall of 2023.
Jose Wright Diokno,also known as "Ka Pepe",was a Filipino nationalist,lawyer,and statesman. Regarded as the "Father of Human Rights," he served as Senator of the Philippines,Secretary of Justice,founding chair of the Commission on Human Rights,and founder of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG),the premier group of Filipino human rights lawyers. Diokno is the only person to top both the Philippine Bar Examination and the board exam for Certified Public Accountants (CPA). His career was dedicated to the promotion of human rights,the defense of Philippine sovereignty,and the enactment of pro-Filipino economic legislation.
Sedfrey M. Candelaria,is the former Dean of the Ateneo Law School in Makati,Philippines.
The Mendiola massacre was an incident that took place in Mendiola Street,San Miguel,Manila,Philippines on January 22,1987,in which state security forces under President Corazon Aquino violently dispersed a farmers' march to Malacañang Palace in protest for the lack of government action on land reform.
The Tañada-Diokno School of Law is the law school and one of the eight schools of De La Salle University.
James Bertram Reuter was an American Jesuit Catholic priest who lived in the Philippines since he was 22 and taught at Ateneo de Manila University. He was a well-known public figure who was a writer,director and producer in theatre,radio,print and film. He was also a prominent figure in the resistance against the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos,and played a key role in the 1986 People Power Revolution that overthrew Marcos. He educated and trained students in creative works,inspired by the works of Christ,instilling the importance of prayers most especially the Holy Rosary,working alongside and continuing the mission of the Rev. Patrick Peyton,best known as the "Rosary Priest".
Jose Manuel Tadeo "Chel" Icasiano Diokno is a Filipino lawyer,educator,and human rights advocate. He serves as chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG),the founding dean of the De La Salle University College of Law,and the chairman of the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation. He has served as a special counsel of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. He was a candidate for the Senate in 2019 and 2022. He also co-hosts the radio program Oras at Bayan on Veritas 846.
Arlene "Kaka" J. Bag-ao is a Filipino human rights lawyer and agrarian reform advocate who served as Governor of the Dinagat Islands from 2019 to 2022. Bag-ao additionally served as the representative for the lone district of the Dinagat Islands from 2013 until 2019. She has been dubbed as the 'Dragon Slayer' after consecutively defeating two of the most prominent members of the influential Ecleo political dynasty of the Dinagat Islands.
Rappler is a Filipino online news website based in Pasig,Metro Manila,the Philippines. It was founded by 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa along with a group of fellow Filipino journalists as well as technopreneurs. It started as a Facebook page named MovePH in August 2011 and evolved into a website on January 1,2012.
The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. It was founded in 1974 by Sen. Jose W. Diokno,Lorenzo Tañada,J.B.L. Reyes,and Joker Arroyo during the martial law era under former President Ferdinand Marcos. It is the first and largest group of human rights lawyers established in the nation. They work on countering varied abuses against human rights and civil liberties. Its current chairman since 2003 is human rights attorney Chel Diokno,the founding dean of the De La Salle University Tañada-Diokno School of Law.
The Bantayog ng mga Bayani,sometimes simply referred to as the Bantayog,is a monument,museum,and historical research center in Quezon City,Philippines,which honors the martyrs and heroes of the struggle against the dictatorship of 10th President Ferdinand Marcos.
At 7:15 p.m. on September 23,1972,President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law,stating he had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly founded Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP),and the sectarian "rebellion" of the Muslim Independence Movement (MIM). Opposition figures of the time accused Marcos of exaggerating these threats and using them as an excuse to consolidate power and extend his tenure beyond the two presidential terms allowed by the 1935 constitution. Marcos' signed Proclamation No. 1081 on September 21,1972,marking the beginning of a fourteen-year period of one-man rule which effectively lasted until Marcos was exiled from the country on February 25,1986. Proclamation No. 1081 was formally lifted on January 17,1981,although Marcos retained essentially all of his powers as dictator until he was ousted in February 1986.
Maria Serena Encarnacion Icasiano Diokno,also known as Maris,is a Filipino historian,academic,and former government official best known for having served as chair of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and as a high-ranking official of the University of the Philippines (UP) system. She graduated UP magna cum laude and earned a PhD in African and Oriental studies at the University of London in 1983. Diokno succeeded fellow historian Ambeth Ocampo as chairperson of the NHCP on April 7,2011. She resigned from her position on November 29,2016,in response to the burial of former president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig,Metro Manila.
Marites Dañguilan Vitug is a Filipina journalist and author who co-founded the news magazine Newsbreak. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 1986 to 1987.
Romeo Jocson Intengan,S.J. was a Filipino doctor,social activist,and Jesuit priest. He was called "Archie" or "Nonoy".
Albert "Paring Bert" Eduave Alejo is a Filipino Jesuit,anthropologist,activist,and Tagalog poet. His areas of interest include:corruption and violence and the formation of social conscience;intercultural and interreligious dialogue;social research;and creative writing.
Historical distortion regarding Ferdinand Marcos is a political phenomenon in the Philippines. Ferdinand Marcos was the country's president between 1965 and 1986. Distortion,falsification,or whitewashing of the historical record regarding this period,sometimes referred to using the phrases "historical denialism","historical negationism",or "historical revisionism" as a euphemism for negationism,is an academically documented phenomenon linked to the return of Marcos' immediate family and political allies to government positions,as well as the hero's burial of Marcos himself in 2016. It continues Marcos' own efforts to create a cult of personality for himself,which in itself involved various forms of historical distortion.
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines Student Council (PUP SC) (Filipino:Konseho ng Mag-aaral ng Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas) is the official undergraduate student union and collective student representative body of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Manila campuses. It represents the interests of the students on the university,national,and global issues.
