Jose ‘Ka Pepe’ Diokno, quintessential nationalist

Jose ‘Ka Pepe’ Diokno, quintessential nationalist

By Satur C. Ocampo

Tomorrow marks the 90th birthday of Jose “Ka Pepe” Diokno: nationalist, human rights defender, progressive intellectual, and more.

Had he lived as long as his colleague, Lorenzo “Ka Tanny” Tanada who, at 91, stood up from his wheelchair at the gallery to hail the Senate voting in 1991 that ended the US military bases’ presence in the Philippines one need not wonder how Ka Pepe would feel today.

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