The Constantino Foundation invites the public to a Pandesal Forum commemorating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Pedro Abad Santos, an important figure in the history of Philippine social reform.
Featuring insights from Renato Redentor Constantino and Eufemio Agbayani III, with Wilson Lee Flores as moderator.
January 31, 2025 (Saturday)
10:00 AM
Kamuning Bakery Cafe, Quezon City
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Dr Ian Christopher Alfonso gave a lecture yesterday worthy of the 150th birth anniversary of the revolutionary Pedro Abad Santos. We thank our co-organizers, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the UP Department of History, and the City of San Fernando, Pampanga. Read More About The Lecture Here
by Renato Redentor Constantino
(The essay was published first in ABS-CBN.)
“If freedom is to be preserved, fascism must be destroyed at all costs.”[1]
These are the timeless words of the hero Pedro Abad Santos, born 150 years ago on 31 January 1876. He was a nationalist, a revolutionary, and a fighter who lived by the principles of the Katipunan’s Kartilya. To forget Abad Santos is to forget who we are and who we can still be as a people. Perhaps this is why so many feel so restive yet so lost today, adrift in a brutal ocean of political noise with no safe shore in sight. Divorced from our own history, we bob and roll with the waves without a rudder.
Apart from the work of theater and movie production crews in 2025, it is difficult to tell which national group or coalition organized public events last year [READ]
Join if you can, it’s free – but remember, first come, first served basis. Seats are limited! Lezzgo and let’s learn tons of insights together. It’s not everyday one gets to hear the compelling scholar, Dr. Ian Christopher Alfonso, speak. #aPastRevisited #MabuhaySiDonPerico [READ]
By Wilson Lee Flores | December 14, 2025
Between the dangerous, dazzling “ningning” (glitter) of false promises & the steady, guiding “liwanag” (light) of truth—which do we choose?
Last December 12, at 87-year-old #KamuningBakery Cafe, the non-partisan #PandesalForum honored the 150th birth anniversary of the fierce, brilliant hero #EmilioJacinto—the “Brains of the #Katipunan.”
There, the powerful words of Jacinto’s timeless essay, “Ang Ningning at Ang Liwanag,” were given voice by LIRA Chairman & @ateneodemanilau Professor @abnerdormiendo. This poignant event, suggested by historian & environmentalist @red.constantino of the @constantinofoundation, was a living testament to ideas that refuse to die.
Jacinto’s warning is urgent: to reject the seductive glitter of #corruption & choose the purifying light of integrity.
Today, as moral ambivalence & systemic #corruption shadow our society in the #Philippines, his call is not history—it is an urgent manifesto. We do not need more cynics. We [READ]
With 350 PH and Justice for Leonard Co as neighbors, we open!
Come on over and help bring justice to Leonard Co, the People’s Botanist!
Buhay si Pingkian kung nais natin! A pleasure to break bread with Wilson Flores, NHCP’ Eufemio Agbayani III, Emilio Jacinto’s descendants, LIRA’s Abner Dormiendo, and the indefatigable Vim Nadera.
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