Episode 222: Boni Ilagan
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4.5 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
We speak to Boni Illagan, renowned Filipino anti-martial law activist, journalist, and playwright about his radicalization, Martial Law under the Marcos dictatorship, and the hollowing out of Filipino historical memory. Ferdinand Marcos’s son, Bong Bong Marcos, is running for President in the May elections alongside Sarah Duterte, the current president's daughter. A nightmare for those who survived to tell the stories of their capture, torture, and years of imprisonment under the Marcos rule, Bong Bong has soared in popularity particularly with young people.
Boni Illagan is co-convenor of the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law, an organization working tirelessly to keep the memory of the Marcos’s brutality alive.
See also The Kingmaker, a documentary about Imelda Marcos.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's do this part first. My name is Brace. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I'm Liz. We are, of course, as always, joined by producer Young Chomsky, and this is Trunon. Hello. |
| 0:12.4 | Hello, before we forget, there's a few things we need to get out of the way before we forget. Number one, because I can see Young Chomsky's eyes boring into me if I don't mention this. |
| 0:21.4 | There is some ambiant noise in the background of our guests. |
| 0:26.7 | You might recognize it from your sound machine that your girlfriend hates that you use. |
| 0:34.2 | Oh, interesting reversal there. |
| 0:35.8 | She's not using the sound machine? |
| 0:37.1 | No, it's always the guy. |
| 0:38.7 | Yeah. Well, where I come from, the sound machine is the girlfriend, if you know what I mean. |
| 0:44.4 | Where do you come from? The place where they, again, they just keep talking and don't let me |
| 0:49.8 | finish my thought. No, but yes, there are African lovebirds in our guest's room, which I think is insanely |
| 0:59.0 | charming. |
| 0:59.9 | And so if you're like, oh, I'm get distracted by the beautiful chirpings of African lovebirds, |
| 1:06.1 | don't listen to this podcast. |
| 1:07.7 | Or get distracted by it and then just hit pause, rewind because you got distracted. Mm-hmm. Or maybe get some birds your own. It's okay to this podcast. Or get distracted by it and then just hit pause, rewind because you got |
| 1:11.4 | distracted. Or maybe get some birds your own. It's okay to get distracted by the loved birds. |
| 1:16.3 | They're lovebirds. But then you just hit that old pause button, little rewind, little 30 second, |
| 1:22.3 | hop over, hop on back 30 seconds, start it up again. Refocus. Exactly. Exactly. Well, Liz, we are we are |
| 1:30.5 | hopping on a little boat today and going down to the Pacific. In fact, I read some, |
| 1:37.5 | listen, I can't figure it out. Some people think it's in Asia. Some people say it's in the |
| 1:41.5 | South, or it's a Pacific Island. To me, it's both. But we're |
| 1:45.7 | going down to the Philippines. For those who do not know, there is an election coming up in the |
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