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In commemoration of the 37th Peoples’ Cordillera Day, an online storytelling featuring the life of Cordillera hero, Apo Macliing Dulag was held last week. Dulag was a celebrated tribal leader who led the people’s resistance against the controversial Chico Dam during the Marcos dictatorship. On April 24, 1980, he was killed by the military. In a book called The Pangat The Mountains, and the River written by Luz B. Maranan, Macliing’s story of fighting against the government’s development plan which would displace 100,000 indigenous people in the Cordillera. During the online program, Maranan said it was important to highlight Dulag’s story as his life embodied not just the fight of the Cordillera people but what it meant to be a hero nowadays, for having defeated a dictator and a destructive project like the Chico Dam. ....
This 2021, you can expand your reading list and consider these Filipino writers and publishers. With the country’s notoriously fickle internet connectivity and the continuing danger of physical contact, I find books a safe remedy to the growing loneliness of lockdown. Many local cultural workers and institutions, despite the punishing circumstances of this current crisis, are putting out work, which deserve a much larger audience. This 2021, you can expand your reading list and consider these Filipino writers and publishers. National Publishers The country’s biggest publishers often still have books worth checking out. Anvil Publishing has repackaged several Filipino classics for a contemporary audience, including Manuel Arguilla, Lope K. Santos, and the always fabulous Nick Joaquin. Books from the dearly departed Visprint Inc Bob Ong’s bestsellers, Agay Llanera’s heartfelt “Choco Chip Hips,” “Kikomachine,” and “Trese” comics have found a seco ....