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Chel Diokno is a human rights lawyer, Chairman of FLAG, head of the Diokno Law Center and member of the Jose W. Diokno Foundation, founding Dean of the DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law, and former Special Counsel of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Chel Diokno ran for Senator twice and nearly secured enough votes to obtain a seat.
Visitors to the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, ponder the protest of 1972 while Sen. "Ka Pepe" Diokno, looks on.. The MCCCL's rallies are remembered for their scale, with the biggest one held on September 21, 1972 - just two days before Marcos' announcement of Martial Law - which was attended by as many as 50,000 people at Plaza Miranda.
Jose Rizal: National hero. Doctor, polyglot, and sculptor. Wrote Noli me Tángere and El filibusterismo. Taytay Elementary School, Taytay Filipino 2011 Jose Rizal (1861–1896) National hero. Province of Rizal named after him though the Philippine Commission Act No. 137. Rizal Provincial Capitol, Ynares Center Complex, Antipolo City Filipino 2012
Rizal Day (Spanish: Día de Rizal, Filipino: Araw ni Rizal; Tagalog:) is a Philippine national holiday commemorating life and works of José Rizal, a national hero of the Philippines. It is celebrated every December 30, the anniversary of Rizal's 1896 execution at Bagumbayan (present-day Rizal Park ) in Manila .
In 1901, the American Governor General William Howard Taft suggested that the U.S.-sponsored Philippine Commission name Rizal a national hero for Filipinos. Jose Rizal was an ideal candidate, favourable to the American occupiers since he was dead, and non-violent, a favourable quality which, if emulated by Filipinos, would not threaten the ...
The Stonehill scandal, named after American expatriate businessman Harry Stonehill, [1] was a 1962 bribery scandal in the Philippines which implicated high level government officials, including President Diosdado Macapagal, [2] future President Ferdinand Marcos, [2] [3] former President Carlos P. Garcia, [3] and numerous other top Philippine officials, who were accused of accepting bribes to ...
Later, on June 30, 2004, Senator Sergio Osmeña III authored Senate Bill No. 497, another Senate Bill seeking to rename Taft Avenue to Senator Jose W. Diokno Avenue. However, the bill is still pending in the Committee as of August 2004. [13] Moreover, a road in Bay City in Pasay and Parañaque has already been named Jose W. Diokno Boulevard.
The Sangguniang Bayan meets at the Sen. Jose W. Diokno Legislative Hall at the Municipal Hall. Father Fernando Suarez , a Catholic priest known worldwide for faith healing , was born here in 1967. Benjamin Diokno - Secretary of Budget and Management 1998–2001, 2016–2019; Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas 2019–2022; Secretary of ...