February 14, 2006 · Posted in: Edsa Special, Podcasts
Edsa 20/20: Ma. Cecilia Flores-Oebanda
‘WHAT I’m fighting for today is an extension of what I fought for before’
She was a fish vendor at the age of five to help feed her family. But Oebanda grew up to become Kumander Liway, renowned throughout Negros for her exploits as a communist guerrilla. Arrested in 1982, when she was eight months pregnant, Oebanda was released with other political prisoners after Marcos fell. Moved by the tragedy of the flood in Ormoc, Leyte that killed 8,000 people in 1991, the former rebel helped form the Visayan Forum to raise funds for the victims. Since then, the Forum has rescued young Visayans brought to Manila to work as domestic helpers and maltreated by their employers. Oebanda won an international award for her work in 2005.
Fides Lim talks to Oebanda in this podcast.
Length: 00:31:51
File size: 21.8 MB
6 Responses to Edsa 20/20: Ma. Cecilia Flores-Oebanda
Gurong Bayan
February 17th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Ka Liway, salamat sa lahat lahat…i heard a lot of good things about you and your work in CHICKS area. My parents and neighbors in Binalbagan would talk about you and your work with awe and respect. Mabuhay ka.
baycas
February 18th, 2006 at 7:45 am
kahanga-hanga…
Sunday Inquirer Cover Story : Poverty stole her childhood
She’s helping child domestic workers keep theirs
http://news.inq7.net/sunday/index.php?index=2&story_id=65158&col=85
jr_lad
February 18th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
thanks baycas for the link. a truly remarkable woman. i used to hear her exploits way back in college. how famous and elusive she was as an npa comander. talk of the town in the southern negros. and now fighting a new fight.
tunay na kahang-hanga.
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