![]() Louis University Glee Club (of Baguio City) sang “Tatsulok” after the lawyers took their oath. NUPL members who took the oath as new members of the Bar wore both pink masks and masks that bear the phrase “Justice.” Photo courtesy of the NUPLĭuring the actual ceremony, which is a special en banc session of the Supreme Court, the St. There were other songs that played too, like Kelly Clarkson and Taylor Swift, and several version of Umagang Kay Ganda which was a Filipino anthem now used by Marcos as a campaign song.īut the Martial Law songs rang loud, like Asin’s Himig ng Pag-Ibig, and other progressive songs recently heard in the musical Lean, or the retelling of the life of Lean Alejandro, a leading activist during the dictatorship shot and killed in 1987 during the first few months of Corazon Aquino’s presidency. While waiting, there were Martial Law songs that played, for example “Balita” created by the band Asin to expose atrocities through music during the repressive military rule of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, father of Ferdinand Jr, the current survey frontrunner to be president. ![]() ![]() “The mask pays tribute and calls for justice for those fallen colleagues in the legal profession particularly NUPL members,” said the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL). The bar passers from the progressive peoples’ lawyers groups wore masks with “justice” written on them.
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