February 4, 2026 marks the 127th anniversary of the beginning of the Philippine-American War, a badly remembered chapter in our history.

We don’t know how many died as a result of the U.S. invasion in 1899. Estimates range from a low 250,000 to as high as one million dead. In a New York Times interview published in May 1901, U.S. Gen. Franklin Bell put the figure of dead Filipinos at 600,000 in Luzon alone. The estimate did not include the slaughter of Samar or ‘pacification’ campaigns in other provinces.

Disregard for Filipino lives was widespread among U.S. troops. For instance, a soldier in the Washington Regiment wrote to his family: “[O]ur fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill ‘niggers’ . . .  We killed them like rabbits; hundreds, yes, thousands of them.” A private with Utah Battery wrote: “The old boys will say that no cruelty is too severe [READ]

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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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]

With 350 PH and Justice for Leonard Co as neighbors, we open!

𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

Congratulations, 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨 for your film 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧, which won 2nd Best Film in Indie-Siyensya, the first science filmmaking competition organized by DOST’s Science Education Institute “to bring science closer to the youth and the general public through film.”

To the Constantino Foundation, your film Damayan reflects very much the quality and grace of your body of work – a veritable cosmos that encourages Filipinos to see, smell, touch, hear, and taste the fragile abundance we must learn to appreciate better and protect.

From seeds to tiny creatures, from blooms to edible plants and towering majestic trees, your work continues to utilize language that seeds and sustains informed conversation admist the pestilence of disinformation and the slop of artificial intelligence.

Damayan reminds us to treat as treasure what is native to our land. It shows how our nation can thrive. It is a perfect representation [READ]

A historian tote bag? Why yes. See more in our tent this Dec. 13 in support of QC’s Maginhawa Arts and Food Festival!

We are part of the Maginhawa Arts and Food Festival this Dec. 13! Look for our tent – we will sell new Renato and Letty Constantino t-shirts, posters, tote bags, pamphlets, books, Alas ng Bayan 2.0 merch, and LunaRiver zines! The festival is yet another example of the kind of governance Quezon City has enjoyed under Mayor Joy, where arts, local food, local tourism, and mobility are given importance.