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Sino Ba Talaga ang Bayani?
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Sino Ba Talaga ang Bayani?

We have been taught to recognize heroism by its monuments: a name carved in stone, a face printed in textbooks, a death dramatic enough to become a national memory—but perhaps a country is also built by the people whose names never make it onto one. If the hands that feed, build, clean, carry, and keep the country alive are rarely called heroic, then who exactly gets to be a hero?

Censored Freedom
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Censored Freedom

Press freedom is celebrated so often that the calendar itself seems crowded with reminders of it. Perhaps that is the cruel irony of commemorating freedom in a country where the press must constantly prove that it is free. How free are we, really?