By Tonyo Cruz (Manila)

Saturnino C. Ocampo was already an accomplished reporter and business editor of the Philippines’ biggest and most influential newspaper when in the early 1970’s, he just dropped everything.

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By Tonyo Cruz (Manila)

In January 2001, as Filipinos rose in an uprising that would eventually oust a corrupt president, popular actress Nora Aunor approached Bayan and told leaders that she wished to go to the center of the uprising to express her support to the people. Later in the day, in one of the most dramatic scenes of that uprising, tens of thousands of people cheered when Aunor arrived at the Edsa Shrine, with labor leader Crispin Beltran and a peasant leader accompanying her.

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