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... ...Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948 -- "A Cause for Celebration" ... 'Demands of Dignity' 'Demands of Dignity' <DEVELOPING THE DISCOURSE ON OUR DECEMBER 1Oth DECLARATION>
On-Line Edition of the Book by Ed Aurelio C. Reyes About the Publisher |
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CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK: Response
to the Spanish Response Response to the American Non-Response Demands of Dignity
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About the Publisher ---------------------------------- Kamalaysayan KAMALAYSAYAN is actually a word with two distinct but very closely interrelated meanings. The first is a common noun, a coined word in Filipino for "kamalayan sa kasaysayan" or sense of history; the second is a proper noun referring to a formal organization formed in late 1991 as a campaign network. This association was born as the Kampanya para sa Kamalayan sa Kasaysayan, which sought to campaign for the appropriate commemoration of the then forthcoming founding centennial of the organization that started the revolution and birthed our nationhood -- Kataas-taasan, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, more popularly known simply as Katipunan (Gathering). Ed Aurelio C. Reyes had harbored long before this a keen sense of hi-story. About two years before, he wrote The Philippines, A Century Thence, an open letter to Rizal. Much earlier, he wrote under a penname a novel patterned after Rizal's Noli Me Tangere, and also wrote under another penname, an op-en letter to the American people about Philippine-American relations for almost a century and began with the words "Four score and seven years ago..." By that time, he had already learned as an editor-level journalist the value of familiarity with history, a required subject that he had disliked when he was a student. Reyes and some friends, decided to organize an association for the purpose of making history a well-liked subject helping people to learn from it what people really have to know about our own life-story to make it helpful in looking back to the past to understand the present, in making analyses and decisions guided by real lessons from the past, and thus actively prepare well for a better Philippine society in the future. Kamalaysayan immediately declared upon its birth that history is not at all about memorizing dates, names of persons, places and boats, and details of events. Membership grew mainly through decentralized and highly participatory activities that encouraged creativity and autonomous initiatives. These were woven through thematic focuses and calls and a secretariat providing active coordination, promotion and research-support work.
The first major project Kamalaysayan undertook despite lack of time and the bigger lack of central funds was Katipu- nan, Sandaan!, the decentralized commemoration of the Katipunan founding centennial, with participating groups raising funds for and from their own activities for which the campaign center was providing research, linkaging and promotional services. Projects for this were initiated early on by the Asosasyon ng mga Dalubhasa, May-Hilig at Interes sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipi- nas (ADHIKA) which soon became a member-organization of Kamalaysayan, along with the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA). Among the activities was the first-ever holding of the Pagti- tipon ng mga Anak ng Bayan solemn ceremony centered on the "Kartilya ng Katipunan." This was held twice on the exact centennial day within the Folk Arts Theater within the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex, the same venue that hosted the Katipunan, Sandaan! Concert that evening. Other activities at Folk Arts that same date were the books exhibit and story-telling for children. The People's Alternative Study Center for Research and Education in Social Develop- ment (PASCRES), Pambansang Koalisyon ng Musikong Pilipino (PAKOMPIL), and Foundation for Media Affairs (FMA) all member-entities of Kamalaysayan later mounted a very successful song-writing contest that culminated in another concert and produced an audio-cassette tape for wider popularization of the beautiful songs entered in the contest. The final output of this festival was the Katipunan, Sandaan! souvenir magazine. Four years later, with the Kartilya-centered Pagtitipon ceremony spread-ing throughout the country and even overseas, and two dried-leaves-mosaic portraits finished, Kamalaysayan prepared to commemorate the centennial of the Birth of the Nation in the 1896 Revolution. Sentenaryo '96 was a much bigger success, fulfilling its banner call, "Kasali tayong lahat!" That call encouraged a multitude of diverse groups (among historians, artists, environment-alists, churchpeople, women issues advocates, indigenous people, sportsmen, journalists and others to initiate and fund a multitude of projects and activities. Kamalaysayan had no central funds, but it got to have a radio program in partnership with Radyo Veritas, a television show for children, in partnership with ABS-CBN foundation, and a regular section in the Manila Chronicle. Its activities were regularly being reported on in a Kamalaysayan column syndicated by the Kamalasyayan Media Service, Philippine News Agency, Mabuhay News Service, and later by Sun*Star News Service for newspapers all over the country and overseas. That year, PETA staged a major production, 1896, written by Kamalaysayan member Charlie de la Paz. The following year, Kamalaysayan spearheaded Sente- naryo Bonifacio '97: The People's Symbolic Funeral of Andres Bonifacio. Over a hundred people, composed of descendantsof this national hero, members of the academe, youth and other people, joined a vigil at Tutuban near Bonifa- cio's birthplace and a symbolic funeral march in Montalban, Rizal to "bury" a replica of his burial urn inside the legendary Pamitinan cave, acknowledged to be the "Temple of the Kati- punan Spirit." It was done on May 10, 1997, centenial of the date widely recognized as the death of Bonifacio. Before yearend 1998, Kamalaysayan teamed up with the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) in having a Philippine Declaration of Felicitation and Protest of 1998 composed, signed, and delivered to formal addressees, including the Makati office of the United Nations System and the respective embassies of Spain and the United States, demanding formal apologies from these two govern- ments. It was then the Golden Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and no less than the Centen- nial of the Treaty of Paris (the two main subjects of this book). In 2002, Kamalaysayan teamed up with the National Eco- nomic Protection-ism (NEPA) and the Galing Pilipino Move- ment (GPM) to form the Katipunang DakiLahi for national synergy building, our preferred term for "nation-building." That same year, the cluster initiated the Rise in Bataan annual April-9 symposium project in Balanga City, capital Bataan, regularly preceded in the morning by a festive "Mabuhay Motorcade" from Capas, Tarlac, thus reversing the both the "Fall of Bataan" and the consequent "Death March." This is one of the consciousness-reversal projects of Kamalaysayan, which also came out with a pamphlet, titled 1521: Filipinos Discov- ered Magellan. Years later, another pamphlet came out, titled Mayaman Ka! Hindi nga Lamang Halata! (You are Rich! But it's Not Obvious!), featuring a "Dozen Distinct Endow- ments" from our ancestors of thousands of years before colonization by Spain. The material focuses our cultural-spiritual heritage. Recently, Kamalaysayan started a team-up with the Manila Historical and Heritage Commission and the University of the Philippines Manila, for an ongoing series of tertullas at Museo ng Maynila on historical topics, inviting resource persons from various parts of the country and overseas. It has also teamed up many times with its Katipunang DakiLahi fellow-members, now including SanibLakas ng mga Aktibong Lingkod ng Inang Kalikasan (SALIKA). Currently, Kamalaysayan is preparing to help some village communities set up "living libraries and museums" to house the records, artifacts, and living processes where community peo- ple would root themselves deep in their heritage and chart the tragectories of their years and decades ahead, a vital part of the process of getting the peoples of the Philippine archipelago to chart their separate and collective futures deliberately and in real synergy. Together with the Lambat-Liwanag Network for Empow- ering Paradigms and the Philippine Institute of Futuristics, the organization will soon formally launch this and Kaganapan ng Bagumbayan 2021, the broad and tho-roughgoing campaign for the full decolonization of the Filipino praxis. The Demands of Dignity campaign is being pursued precisely within this context. For information on current projects and activities, including the Demands of Dignity discourse campaign, please visit often the website: <http://kamalaysayan.8m.net> back to top
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