In resistance, we are at the neck of injustice, holding our breath, proving our matter.

Creating a life in the shadow of the martial law years

How does it feel to watch / the seeds of your destruction / walk away from you?

I became a full-time community organizer in 1971. The Marcos government declared martial law in September 1972. A month later, the Marcos military came and arrested me.

How arts and tech can preserve intergenerational neighborhood stories and fight back against gentrification.

Reads that encourage us to resist complacency and keep searching for new ways of thinking and being in the world–all in the name of self-determination.

The newspapers were quick to christen the members of the underground movement with new names: subversives, communist insurgents, terrorists, guerrillas, rebels. Yet in my mind, they were simply family.