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"Those who profess to favor freedom
and yet deprecate agitation
are men who want crops without
plowing up the ground;
they want rain without thunder and
lightning.
They want the ocean without the
awful roar of its waters.
This struggle may be a moral one
or it may be a physical one
or it may be both moral and physical
but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a
demand
It never did, and never will." – Frederick Douglass, American Abolitionist, Lecturer, Author and Slave, 1817-1895)
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and yet deprecate agitation
are men who want crops without
plowing up the ground;
they want rain without thunder and
lightning.
They want the ocean without the
awful roar of its waters.
This struggle may be a moral one
or it may be a physical one
or it may be both moral and physical
but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a
demand
It never did, and never will." – Frederick Douglass, American Abolitionist, Lecturer, Author and Slave, 1817-1895)
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Below analysis though dated is very relevant in understanding recent history of our homeland, the Marcos dictatorship and our "continuing past" (to borrow a coined-phrase by our late/great nationalist Prof. Renato Constantino, of our unchanged, mendicant, servile, master-slave relationship with our former colonial master America).
We native Filipinos can not afford to stay ignorant of our past and not learn its lessons; ignorance and apathy have only lead us natives to our national and perpetual perdition: at a high cost for ourselves, our children and their children's children unless we admit that we just don't care and remain the individualist Filipino -at best helpful only to his extended family/friends and at worst, a self-proclaiming Christian and not acting as an authentic one.
Prof. Shalom co-edited with the late Daniel B. Schirmer the excellent book: The Philippines Reader (South End Press, 1987) which is still available from the South End Press, $24.00).
THE PHILIPPINE READER: A collection of essential readings and documents providing background on the continuing struggle of the Philippines people for true independence and social justice—from the turn-of-the century US war of conquest to the administration of Corazon Aquino.
PROMOTING FERDINAND MARCOS
We native Filipinos can not afford to stay ignorant of our past and not learn its lessons; ignorance and apathy have only lead us natives to our national and perpetual perdition: at a high cost for ourselves, our children and their children's children unless we admit that we just don't care and remain the individualist Filipino -at best helpful only to his extended family/friends and at worst, a self-proclaiming Christian and not acting as an authentic one.
Prof. Shalom co-edited with the late Daniel B. Schirmer the excellent book: The Philippines Reader (South End Press, 1987) which is still available from the South End Press, $24.00).
THE PHILIPPINE READER: A collection of essential readings and documents providing background on the continuing struggle of the Philippines people for true independence and social justice—from the turn-of-the century US war of conquest to the administration of Corazon Aquino.
Analytical articles from varying authors explore, among other topics, the nature of the US colonial regime, the role of the church, conflicts with national minorities, the situation of labor, peasants and women, and US policy, as well as prospects for the future. Documentary selections in this Philippines Reader come from such diverse sources as the CIA and the State Department; US Presidents McKinley and Reagan; Philippine leaders Aguinaldo and Aquino; Philippine nationalist and Left organizations such as the Anti-Bases Coalition, Bayan, Kaakbay, and the New People's Army; and US opponents of foreign intervention.]
- Bert
***************- Bert
PROMOTING FERDINAND MARCOS
One of the ironies of the neocolonial relationship between
the United States and the Philippines is that leaders in Manila
are as dependent on Washington for their power as they are on
any of the sectors of the Philippine population. No ruler of the
Philippines was more aware of this than Ferdinand Marcos
during his more than two decades in power.
The chief means by which Marcos secured the backing of
Washington was by serving U.S. political, economic, and
military interests.
-written by Prof. Stephen R. Shalom.
Stephen R. Shalom got his Bachelor's degree from M.I.T., his Master's from Northeastern, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston University. He began teaching at William Paterson in 1977.
He is the author of The United States and the Philippines: A Study of Neocolonialism (1981); editor of Socialist Visions (South End Press, 1984); author of Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U.S. Intervention After the Cold War (South End Press, 1993); co-editor of The Philippines Reader (South End Press, 1987), Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001); author of the text Which Side Are You On? An Introduction to Politics (Longman, 2003); and editor of Perilous Power: The Middle East &U.S. Foreign Policy. Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar (Paradigm Publishers, 2007).
He is on the editorial boards of Critical Asian Studies and New Politics, and writes for Z Magazine and ZNet.
He is the director of the Gandhian Forum for Peace & Justice.
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