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...killed campaigning Methodist pastor Isaias Santa Rosa in August, carried army identification and orders for a "secret mission" from army intelligence. (The papers were discovered on the hit man after he himself was killed, apparently by friendly fire.) Before his murder by two unidentified men last year, left-wing activist Edison Lapuz told friends he was under military surveillance. And journalist George Vigo, before his death, heard from an intelligence source that his name was on an "OB" or "order of battle." OBs are widely believed by activists to be code for hit lists; the military denies such orders exist...
Ruby Sison is waiting for someone to kill her. I met Sison a few months ago at a cemetery in Kidapawan, a town on the lawless Philippine island of Mindanao. We were paying our respects to the activists and journalists George and Maricel Vigo, who were shot dead in June in broad daylight by motorbike-riding assassins while returning home to their five children. The killers were still at large, and local reporters were braving multiple death threats by keeping the Vigo murders in the news. A friend and left-wing activist, Sison had heard that...
...political rants by their English-speaking cast mates. Ashley Johnson (“Nearing Grace”) and Paul Dano (“Little Miss Sunshine”) complete the fast food trinity as employees at the local branch of Mickey’s, infusing teen angst with lofty activist undertones or unchecked crudeness, respectively. While most roles have at least a hollow function in the film, the most over-hyped actors play characters with no redeeming value whatsoever. Ethan Hawke’s (“Before Sunrise”) pithy role lets him communicate several assertions of idealism...
...emerge out of the population, a leader with some vision, not a professional politician,” he said.He also praised college students in particular. “College kids have the luxury where they find that they can sit down, read some books, inform themselves, and be an activist, and that’s important,” he said. “I hope the film doesn’t belittle that in any way because that’s where change actually comes from.”That belief in the power of action and in taking...
Many idealistic students brought to Israel by ISM, including Rachel Corrie, could be described as naïve pawns of Palestinian extremists looking to garner sympathy from the Western media. This sentiment was probably best expressed by a Hamas activist, who said of Corrie: “Her death serves me more than it served her. Going in front of the tanks was heroic. Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs...