Last convo at the ER
Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura’s leader Antonio Flores joins a protest action May 11, condemning the injustices against Joseph Canlas. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat)A daughter’s last conversation with her dying father and the abominable situation inside the Angeles city jail that led to another death of a political prisoner. Joseph Canlas was the ninth under the Duterte administration and the fourth since the COVID-19 pandemic.
By SINAG JOAQUIN
MANILA “My father loved to talk. There was no dead air when he was around.”
This was how Jenelle described her father, Joseph Canlas. But on the morning of May 9 inside the emergency room of a public hospital in Angeles City, Jenelle said she did all the talking.