Aida Santos

Aida Santos is a poet, feminist, and teacher. She has extensive experience with progressive social movements.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: May 30, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Ana Guarino

Ana Guarino was an officer of a labor union that actively participated in protest actions in Mendiola in the 1980s. She survived the 1987 Mendiola Massacre.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.

Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: August 16, 2008
Place: Quezon City
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Carol Araullo

Dr. Carol Araullo is the chairperson of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN, New Patriotic Alliance), global vice chair for internal affairs of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) and co-convenor of the Gloria Step Down Movement (GSM), Movement of Concerned Citizens for Civil Liberties (MCCCL), PlunderWatch, DEFEND Philippines, Justice Not War Coalition, US Troops Out Now! and other broad alliances. (http://cparaullo.blogspot.com/)

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: August 14, 2008
Place: Quezon City
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Corazon Talampas

Corazon Talampas is a long-time resident of the Mendiola area.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 25, 2008

Place: ManilaPlease click this link for the interview transcript.

Crescencia L. Lucero

Sr. Crescencia L. Lucero, SFIC, is the Executive Director of the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: August 28, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Crispin Beltran

Crispin Beltran was a prominent labor leader and was the Partylist Representative of Anakpawis in the House of Representatives. A week after the interview, "Ka Bel," as he is popularly known, passed away.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: May 8, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Dolores

Dolores is a washerwoman and a long-time resident of the Mendiola area. She agreed to be interviewed if the interviewers will not use her real name.

Interviewer: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 19, 2008
Place: Manila

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Ed Lingao

Ed Lingao is the news operations manager of TV 5.

Interviewers: Sharon M. Quinsaat with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: April 9, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Edrin Aurelio

Edrin Aurelio is a resident of an area near Mendiola.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 29, 2008
Place: Manila

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Ela Ferrey Pascoguin

Ela Ferrey Pascoguin has lived in the area adjacent to Mendiola since the end of the Second World War.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 25, 2008
Place: Manila

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Epifania Esguerra

Epifania Esguerra has been selling cigarette and candies along the street of Mendiola for almost four decades now.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 31, 2008
Place: Manila

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Eric

Eric used to be a student activist. He survived the 1987 Mendiola Massacre. He agreed to participate in the Mendiola Narratives project on condition of anonymity.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: May 19, 2008
Place: Laguna

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Fidel Nemenzo

Fidel Nemenzo is professor of mathematics at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. During the last years of the Martial Law, he was shot in the chest in one of the rallies held to protest the violent dispersal of an earlier demonstration in Mendiola.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr. with Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: May 27, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Jacinto Opleda

Jacinto Opleda is a long-time resident of the area around Mendiola where he also serves as a barangay official.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 25, 2008
Place: Manila

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Jaime Tadeo

Jaime Tadeo is a known leader of the peasant movement. He led the march to Mendiola in January 22, 1987 that ended up in what is now known as the Mendiola Massacre.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: June 5, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Joel Castro

Joel Castro is a long-time resident in the Mendiola area. He was also a former student activist during his college days and was in the January 22, 1987 demonstration that ended up as the Mendiola Massacre.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 27, 2008
Place: Manila

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Jorge Baviera

Jorge Baviera belongs to the First Quarter Storm generation that eventually went underground as part of the armed Left that fought Ferdinand Marcos's authoritarian regime.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: June 2, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Jose Ergino

Jose Ergino is a long-time resident of one of the residential areas that flank Mendiola. He has witnessed the changes that took place in Mendiola since the Japanese occupation.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 12, 2008
Place: Manila

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Leonarda Eugenio

Leornarda Eugenio is a long-time resident of the Mendiola area.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 27, 2008
Place: Manila

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Liza Largoza Maza

Liza Maza is a Filipino activist and development worker. She represents the General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action (GABRIELA) Women's Party in the 14th Congress of the Philippines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABRIELA).

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: August 12, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Loretta Ann Rosales

Loretta Ann P. Rosales has just finished her three terms in Congress as Partylist Representative of Akbayan, of which she is the Chair Emeritus.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: June 16, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Luis Liwanag

Luis Liwanag is a photojournalist. He has consistently covered events in Mendiola since the 1980s.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: June 8, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Luis Liwanag also spoke on almost the same subject in Howie Severino's i-Witness documentary "Litrato." See these links for the video (part 1, part 2, part 3, end part).

Lydia Cruz

Lydia Cruz is a resident of the Mendiola area.

Interviewer: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: April 10, 2008
Place: Manila

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Maria Reina Boro Magbanua

Maria Reina Boro Magbanua is an assistant professor of history at the University of the Philippines-Los Baños. She was active in the student movement in the immediate post-Martial Law era.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: May 19, 2008
Place: Laguna

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Maria Salvacion "Inday" Espina Varona

Maria Salvacion "Inday" Espina Varona is the editor-in-chief of the Philippine Graphic.

Interviewers: Sharon M. Quinsaat with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: April 15, 2008
Place: Makati City

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Marivic de la Cruz

Marivic de la Cruz is a street vendor in Mendiola.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo with Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 12, 2008
Place: Manila

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Miriam Coronel Ferrer

Miriam Coronel Ferrer is an associate professor of political science at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. She has extensive ties with progressive social movements.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: August 1, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Neil Daza

Neil Daza was a freelance photojournalist during his college days. He witnessed the Mendiola Massacre in 1987. He is now a cinematographer and teaches at the University of the Philippines-Film Institute.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Mary Ann Joy R. Quirapas
Date of Interview: July 10, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Ramon Hormillo

Ramon Hormillo used to work as a photojournalist and also a long-time resident of the Mendiola area. He covered the 1987 Mendiola Massacre.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: July 8, 2008
Place: Manila

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Ramon Hormillo also spoke on almost the same subject in Howie Severino's i-Witness documentary "Litrato." See these links for the video (part 1, part 2, part 3, end part).

Randy David

Randy David is professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He used to be a television host of public affairs programs. He writes a regular column, "Public Lives" for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: September 4, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Rene Ofreneo

Rene Ofreneo is a professor of labor and industrial relations at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He was a participant in the First Quarter Storm.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: May 22, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Rhina Alvero Boncocan

Rhina Alvero Boncocan is an associate professor of history at the University of the Philippines-Los Baños. In her college days, she was a member of a progressive student movement fighting for student's rights and eventually transcending the fight for national issues during the Marcos regime.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: May 19, 2008
Place: University of the Philippines-Los Baños, Laguna

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Rodrigo Lacay

Rodrigo Lacay is a resident of the Mendiola area. He works as part-time carpenter and vendor to tide things over.

Interviewers: Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo and Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 19, 2008
Place: Manila

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Ronald Lumbao

Ronald Lumbao is the national president of the People's Movement Against Poverty in the Philippines.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: June 26, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Ruben Torres

Ruben Torres was an activist during the Marcos dictatorship. After Martial Law, he became a member of Corazon Aquino's cabinet, serving as undersecretary, then secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment. Under the administration of Fidel Ramos, he served as executive secretary. Later on, he was elected to Congress as representative of the second district of Zambales.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: July 15, 2008
Place: Manila

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Ruby Mendez

Ruby Mendez was a freshman at the University of the Philippines-Los Banos when she joined a rally demanding agrarian reform in January 22, 1987. She witnessed the Mendiola Massacre.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: June 5, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Satur Ocampo

Satur Ocampo is the deputy minority leader of the House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines. He represents in Congress the party-list Bayan Muna (People First).

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: July 17, 2008
Place: Quezon City

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Simeon Constantino

Simeon Constantino is a long-time resident of the Mendiola area. He also serves as a barangay official in their place.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: March 25, 2008
Place: Manila

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Teofisto Guingona

Teofisto Guingona is a former vice-president of the Republic of the Philippines.

Interviewer: Joel F. Ariate Jr.
Videographer: Alleson D. Villota
Date of Interview: May 9, 2008
Place: Quezon City

Please click this link for the interview transcript.