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Letizia: A Life in Letters

Renato Redentor Constantino | ABS-CBN News | Published Mar 06, 2025

In April we hope to stage an exhibit compelling enough it might help define 2025, at least for those who will be able to see it. Titled Letizia: A Life in Letters, it will celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of a remarkable woman, a generational intellect, the writer, nationalist, and historian named Letizia Roxas Constantino.

Letizia chose to stay out of the limelight most of her life and because of this, few young folks know her today. But the retrospective, which opens at the Linangan Gallery in Panay Ave. on April 9 till May 30, is meant to supply a bit of light to the mystery. It is an event that hopes to remedy some of the forgetting.

As the exhibit will show through handwritten letters selected from thousands of postal (and a bit of electronic) correspondences spanning close to eight decades, [READ]

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Heritage bicycle ride visits site of first PH power plant, goes inside Old Bilibid

Fair climate policy advocates joined forces again with history buffs as they pedaled in celebration of largely unheralded landmarks in Manila. Dubbed #SintangLakbay in commemoration of the 120th founding anniversary of the country’s premier Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), [...]

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PUP unveils mural hailing Filipino ‘science revolutionaries’

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) unveiled on Monday a gigantic campus mural, showing Filipino scientists Leonard Co, Maria Y. Orosa, and Eduardo Quisumbing for their contributions in the country's scientific reputation. The mural, titled "Mga Rebolusyonaryo," gave the three figures with their own descriptive, naming Co as "Bayani Ko," Orosa as "Tagapagligtas," and Quisumbing as "Muhon ng Bayan." [...]

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A post of remembrance from Alpha Phi Beta

The Constantino Foundation appreciates the post of the Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity of UP, which Renato Constantino was very much part of along with stalwarts such as Abraham Sarmiento and Hermon Lagman. In their post, the fraternity quotes our founder as a reminder to today's youth: "????????????????????, ???????? ???????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????? ???????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????... [...]

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Zamboanga: A Lecture-Provocation by Foundation president Red Constantino for faculty and employees of the Ateneo de Zamboanga

After delivering a paper on climate change, history, and the arts, the Constantino Foundation donated multiple copies of its books to Ateneo de Zamboanga University's library. May the past spark greater curiosity in our youth. It will help them understand better the links between politics, science, and the sense of nationhood our people need so much of today. In the photo is university president Fr. Ernald Andal and Floraime Pantaleta of the Ateneo de Zamboanga-Mindanao Institute. [...]

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Second #SintangLakbay

#SintangLakbay was welcomed so warmly by BJMP officials. They were so warm and professional; they gave us a tour of Old Bilibid where Sakay was hanged, a preview of the museum they'll launch end June, and the Gola, the tower of the city jail built in 1847. [...]

RENATO2026-03-02T16:22:11+08:00March 5, 2025|Tags: #SintangLakbay|

Real Life Champions: A Tribute To Unsung Heroes, by Monica Lunot Kuker, former worker at TEMIC (previously known as Telefunken Semi Conductors)

The passing of Renato Constantino Jr., or Ka RC as we used to call him, last April has brought back memories of the union strike we had in 1995. As I fly from Vienna to New York, my thoughts drift like the clouds outside the plane’s window. His loss is a significant one for the Filipino working class. He was one of those unsung heroes who worked behind the scenes for fair justice and equal rights for the working class. [...]

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One of the country’s longest running book clubs, Flips Flipping Pages, holds chose The Philippines: A Past Revisited for their monthly book discussion

Delightful Saturday discussion at the Foundation's Linangan Gallery with the book club #FlipsFlippingPages, founded 2007, centered on #aPastRevisited and #TheContinuingPast. [...]

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Decolonization and Decarbonization in the Philippines: Philippine History and the Climate Crisis, with IPCC climatologist Lourdes Tibig and Red Constantino

Only those who email can be accomodated this Saturday/Sept. 7 at the Linangan Gallery on Panay Ave. Make sure you write to constantinofoundation@gmail.com if interested. [...]

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Weathering the Storm: A PUP Lecture and Discussion on Philippine History and Climate Science with IPCC climatologist Lourdes Tibig and Constantino Foundation President Red Constantino

The lecture's open to the public this MONDAY/Sept. 9. In cooperation with the PUP College of Science, College of Social Sciences and Development, and Research Institute for Culture and Language, in commemoration of the 120th founding year of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. [...]

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Renato Redentor Constantino | ABS-CBN News | Published Mar 06, 2025