HIMAGSIK KAYUMANGGI

A MULTI-LINGUAL SELECTION OF WRITINGS FROM EXILE

Foreword to FILIPINA INSURGENCY (Quezon City: Giraffe Books, 1999) No uprising fails. Each one is a step in the right direction. --Salud Algabre Faithful to the injunction “Always historicize!” I would like to situate the individual essays collected here in the conjunctural “thickness” of their origins. Sometime in the mid-seventies, I edited Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win, the monthly newsletter of the Philippines Research Center (an affiliate of the anti-martial law groups in the United States), which featured in one issue the vicissitudes of the women's liberation movement in the Philippines. One reader asked why I wasted one issue on such a partial and minor trend; my somewhat protracted response took the form of an essay on socialist feminism, its background and prospect. This later evolved into chapter 8 of my book Crisis in the Philippines (South Hadley, Mass: Bergin & Garvey, 1986), included here as chapter 5. As the historical record shows, the women'...

PAHIWATIG Bumungad ka umigting panginoon ko Oo nais ko gusto ko Inay ko! gigil sumisidhi nilalanghap sinisipsip sa kirot sa hapdi Gayumang walang ligtas Gayumang walang patawad kahit na mapariwara kahit na magkasira-sira Oo unti-unti mong kitilin ang buhay ko Oo nais ko gusto ko higpitan higpitan pa kahit anong hapdi rumaragasang hininga nagpupumiglas nais ibulalas sumasagitsit Ay, naku! lumalagos walang awa ---- bumugso bumigay— …. nakagulapay walang lingon walang sisi ibulong mo sa akin sa umaga totoong walang ligtas pinagtalik tiyak na walang patawad biyaya mong inialay tadhana’t kapalaran O mahal langit sa lupa Ikaw ang tanging kal...

PURO SALITA, KULANG SA GAWA? Isang Pagsubok sa Diyalektika ng Kritika ng Sandata at Sandata ng Kritika, ayon kay Karl Marx [In Memoriam Cherith Dayrit-Garcia] Para kay CPA Pambihira ka Matatag matingkad mabagsik ang luntiang apoy sa iyong mga mata Habang dumadampi ang hamog ng umaga Sa iyong pisnging hinog sa pangarap ng dinukot at ibinilanggong kinabukasan— Nagliliyab ang iyong tapang, nakapapaso ang dingas ng iyong determinasyon— Nabighani sa alindog ng iyong dangal habang lugmok sa panaginip Nangahas ang kaluluwang lumantad madarang, nahimok ng kung anong bagwis Ng tukso sa bulong ng iyong labi’t galaw, tuloy naligaw sa paglalakbay— Walang sindak mong binalangkas ang ordeng mapanganib at binungkal ang landas Namumukod sa madla, buntalang motor/dinamo ng bukang-liwayway-- Kahit sumabog ang pulbura sa mundong binagtas ng iyong budhi, wala kang takot Hawak ang sulo ng katarungan, sumusugod ka— Siklab ng huling paghuhukom, O armadong anghel— bumabangon sa iyong bisig at kamao ang m...

SENATOR JAMBY MADRIGAL BLASTS MACAPAGAL-ARROYO STATE TERRORISM AND U.S. DOMINATION OF THE PHILIPPINES “Huwag po nating payagan na bumalik tayo sa kadiliman at takot na dinala ng martial law. Panahon na upang tumindig at lumaban.” --Senator Jamby Madrigal, “Martial Law in the Guiuse of Anti-Terrorism Bill,” Joint Statement with Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Legend Restaurant, Oct 9, 2006 BY E. SAN JUAN, Jr. (with an interview by Dr. Rainer Werning) Last June 26, we attended a historic rally-demonstration of over 4,000 people in Washington, DC. called “Day of Action to Restore Law and Justice.” It was the first national mass mobilization of this kind undertaken by the American Civil Liberties Union, a rather staid institution, in cooperation with Amnesty International (USA), Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. It was a coalition representing a fairly broad spectrum of left to right civil-society lobbying groups. A petition bearing ...

NEOCOLONIAL ELECTIONS AND STATE TERRORISM IN THE PHILIPPINES: An Interview with former president of the University of the Philippines, Emeritus Professor Francisco Nemenzo by E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Contrary to Philippine government claims, the mid-term May elections sounded a dirge to the Arroyo regime’s barbaric repression of its citizens and its subservience to U.S. imperial dictates. On the face of State terrorism carried out through military abductions, harassment and extra-judicial killings, millions of Filipinos rejected the bulk of Arroyo’s candidates for the Senate and voted into office a rebel military officer and Arroyo critic, Antonio Trillanes IV. Supported by civil-society groups like Laban ng Masa, BAYAN, and others, Trillanes vowed to investigate the rampant political killings, torture, kidnappings, and warrantless arrests ascribed by KARAPATAN, Asian Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International and United Nations rapporteurs, to the Pentagon-advised Armed Forces of the Phi...

INTRODUCING E. SAN JUAN’s On the Presence of Filipinos in the United States Anne E. Lacsamana Professor of Women’s Studies, Hamilton College, New York The 2006 Centennial marking the arrival of Filipinos to the United States as laborers on Hawaiian sugar plantations serves as the backdrop for a series of four essays by E. San Juan Jr. investigating both the past and present of Filipino migration to the metropolis. Constituting the largest group within the “Asian American” category, with roughly three million Filipinos living in the United States today, they still remain a marginalized, underpaid, and exploited population when compared to other ethnic communities. With his usual insightful analyses, San Juan’s On the Presence of Filipinos in the United States reminds readers that the contemporary situation afflicting Filipinos in the United States and throughout the diaspora is directly related to the brutal “pacification” campaign waged by the United States in the Filipino-American ...

MAKABAGONG DASAL: MADAPA KA, PRESIDENTE GLORYA! [Paumanhin kay Rex Navarette] Taym out muna tayo. ‘pare, sa kawalanghiyaan ng eleksyong nagdaan Nagkandarapa ka sa mga kalokohan nina Ruffa Gutierrez at Kris Aquino sa TV Di na natin maatupag ang huling biktimang si Mario Auxilio sa Bohol O ang huling dinukot, si Gilbert Rey Cardino—nagkandarapa sila sa paghanap sa pareng Italyano— Huwag sanang madapa ang bagong senador Trillanes IV—Tiyak ng lahat, Wala sa tatsulok ang mga desaparecido, nasa “safehouse” ng Estado Kaya madapa ka, Glorya in excelsis deo? Natagpuang bangkay sina Jun Bagasbas at Ronilo Brezuela ng partidong KABATAAN Sa lantad na sulok ng sitio Santolan, Capalonga, Camarines Norte…. Hoy GMA madapa ka kunwari di mo alam Kalat ang balitang pinatay sila ng mga sundalo ng Alpha Co., 31st Infantry Battalion— Anong dilihensiya rito? Di naman jueteng ito, walang “kickback” o payola Hoy GMA ingat lang baka madapa ka madapa ka Ilan na b’ang kasapi ng BAYAN MUNA, GABRIELA, ANA...

US IMPERIALISM AND REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES by E. SAN JUAN, Jr. due for release this September from PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, New York City ___________________________________________________________________ U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines By E. San Juan, Jr. After Afghanistan, the Philippines has become the second battlefront in the "global war on terrorism." U.S. troops have intervened to fight the Abu Sayyaf, a CIA creation, as well as the Communist-led New People's Army. This is a challenge to all Americans: will they allow U.S. imperial domination to continue? This book is a critical analysis of the social and political crisis of the Philippines under the brutal Arroyo regime. What are the stakes? Peace, social justice for 87million Filipinos and 10 million Moros, democracy, genuine independence, and the struggle for selfdetermination.. "San Juan is one of the sharpest and most clarifying voices vis-à-vis Filipino/U.S. and Filipino/world relati...

Encountering E. SAN JUAN,Jr.-- SUBALTERN MOLE BURROWING IN THE ‘BELLY OF THE BEAST” Interview by Dr. Rainer Werning, Lecturer, Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung, Bad Honef, Germany This interview was conducted in the afternoon of March 22, 2007 during the now historic Permanent People’s Tribunal Session 2 on the Philippines held at The Hague, Netherlands. The interviewer is Dr. Rainer Werning, a German political scientist educated in the universities of Osnabruck and Muenster. He is distinguished for his book of conversations with Jose Maria Sison, The Philippine Revolution: The Leader’s View (New York & London: Crane Russak, 1989), the recent Handbuch Philippinen (with Niklas Reese; Horlemann, 2006), and numerous articles published in newspapers and magazines in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Luyxemburg. He has done research at various educational institutions in the Philippines, Japan, and UK. The original interview was recently aired over German public radio. Pr...