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Free expression under attack, artist groups urge UN to probe PH laws
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Freedom of expression is the people s right to fight back
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Painting the presence of freedom
By ILANG-ILANG QUIJANO
– John Berger, writer and cultural critic
The absence of basic rights and freedoms. The void left by a person killed or unjustly imprisoned for their beliefs. Land that is taken away, intrepid voices that are stifled, entire cultures that are destroyed.
Such were the absences that several freshly painted murals along the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s Freedom Wall along Katipunan Avenue attempt to make present. They are the products of a live mural painting session organized by the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), SINAGBAYAN (Sining na Naglilingkod sa Bayan), and Sama-Samang Artista Para sa Kilusang Agraryo (SAKA) last February 14, in celebration of National Arts Month.
By REIN TARINAY
MANILA In line with the National Arts Month this February, progressive groups held a protest on wheels to call for the release of detained artists.
Ara Villena, spokesperson of Free the Artists, said that detained artists Amanda Echanis, Cheryl Catalogo and Alvin Fortaliza have done nothing wrong and merely used their art to present the story of the masses.
According to Sama-samang Artista para sa Kilusang Agraryo (SAKA) Echanis, Catalogo, and Fortaliza remain in jail with writer Echanis having to nurse her three-month-old baby in prison, and theater worker Catalogo unable to attend the funeral of her father who was slain last year, himself a farmer and an activist.
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