17th, 1872 Secular priests Jose Burgos, Zamora, Gomez, excuted at Luneta for alleged complicity in the mutiny of soldiers and laborers in Cavite. GOMBURZA day is a national holiday.
15th , 1898 American warship USS Maine is blown up in Havana triggering the Spanish-American War that sends Commodore […]
JANUARY: MONTHS OF DISQUIET
1896 December 30 * Jose Rizal , prominent reformist, author of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo was executed by the Spanish authorities at Luneta Park.
1898 December 10 * Spain cedes the Philippines to the United States in Treaty of Paris.
1899 January 23 * Emilio Aguinaldo raised the Philippine flag and proclaimed […]
In a lecture at Stanford University, Walter Mignolo (Duke University) provided an outline of the five domains of human experience that articulate what he calls the logic of coloniality:
1. Control of labor
2. Control of authority
3. Control of gender/sexuality
4. Control of nature
5. Control of knowledge
His outline of the logic of coloniality is, in a nutshell, a […]