On the 40th year of the declaration of Martial Law, InterAksyon.com embarks on an ambitious project to literally give voice to more than 10,000 affidavits of human rights victims of the Marcos years.
If you can read and speak, you can help.
On September 21 – the 40th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law – InterAksyon.com, in cooperation with the University of the Philippines College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (UP-CSSP) and the Center for Art, New Ventures, and Sustainable Development (CANVAS), will open a Martial Law museum at the UP Palma Hall Lobby.
The installations, among others, will play digitized audio files of personal accounts of a handful of people who were arrested and tortured during Martial Law.
So far, we’ve given voice to less than 20 affidavits. Little less than 10,000 to go.
Starting 6 p.m. on September 21, at the sides of a Martial Law Concert at the Palma Hall, and then resuming from September 23 until September 28, InterAksyon.com will set up recording stations at UP Palma Hall, Room 109. We will bring copies of more testimonials from people who were tortured, or from the families of those who were disappeared and/or killed.
All we need now are volunteers. Volunteers to read out the testimonials, as we’ve done in the multimedia features we’ve posted here, in our special coverage of the 40th Year of the Declaration of Martial Law.
Do take time to listen to the samples. We want to do that for the thousands of affidavits for which we would like to lend our voice. This will be our collective contribution towards building our collective memory. So that we will #NeverForget.
To volunteer, simply go to the UP-CSSP-InterAksyon.com-CANVAS Martial Law Museum at 6 p.m., September 21, and look for the InterAksyon.com desk at the Palma Hall Lobby. Also, constantly check this page for any updates in announcements/arrangements. Our recording sessions will resume on September 23 until September 28.