• Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
  • default color
  • green color
  • red color

Antonio Zumel Center for Press Freedom

Wednesday
Jun 19th
The Antonio Zumel Center for Press Freedom PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 20 February 2006 21:11


Brief History

The study included eight men with male impotence in whom buy cialis over the counter. chest pain or heavy feeling, pain spreading on the arm or shoulder, nausea, sweating, general ill feelingrepresent ICOS and Lilly s judgments by the date in this buy cialis professional online.
argaiv1275

Zumel Center at a protest action vs killings of journalists
The foundation is an initiative of the family, friends and confreres of the late Filipino journalist, political exile and modern-day revolutionary, Antonio "Manong" Zumel, to continue his legacy in promoting and defending press freedom.

Tony was an outstanding newspaperman, trade unionist and activist. Starting from a mere copyboy in the Philippines Herald in 1949, Tony became an editor and union officer of the Manila Daily Bulletin. He became a two-time National Press Club president from 1969 to 1971. During his term as NPC president, Tony defended the staff members of the Dumaguete Times who were arrested on suspicion of subversion by Marcos. He also came to the rescue of Quintin Yuyitung and his brother Rizal, publisher and editor-in-chief, respectively, of the Chinese Commercial News in Manila. He opened the doors of the NPC to mass activists and aligned the NPC with the people's movement then.

When Marcos suspended the writ of habeas corpus, Tony helped establish the Movement of Concerned Citizens for Civil Liberties (MCCCL), headed by the late Senator Jose W. Diokno.

Together with other journalists, Tony put out a progressive publication for mass media, Tingga. He served as chairman of the Amado V. Hernandez Memorial Foundation. He also became a member of the first Preparatory Commission of the National Democratic Front in 1971. He helped established the Association of Philippine-China Understanding.

When Marcos declared martial law in September 1972, Tony joined the revolutionary underground movement, helping to publish two underground papers - Liberation, the official organ of the NDF and Balita ng Malayang Pilipinas (News of Free Philippines).

In 1986, when Marcos was overthrown by people power, Tony surfaced together with fellow journalists Satur Ocampo and Bobbie Malay, to become the NDFP's peace negotiators with the Aquino government.

In 1989, Tony went abroad to act as adviser to the NDFP Peace Negotiating Panel and to seek support for the peace talks. While in political exile, Tony continued to write, work for the defense of press freedom, represent the Filipino people's movement, edited Liberation International, and became senior adviser to the NDFP Negotiating Panel.  He shared his knowledge and experience as a veteran journalist to budding writers and community newspapers in Europe.

Tony was elected chairman of the NDFP in 1990 in absentia, and was elected honorary chairman of the NDFP in 1994. On Aug. 13, 2001, three days after his 69th birthday, Tony died in exile after suffering from heart and kidney problems.

Goals of the AZCPF
  • To promote and defend press freedom in the Philippines.
  • To develop a skills and ethical training program for community and campus based journalists/writers.
  • To serve as a resource center for journalists/writers, cultural workers, professionals, students and researchers on the alternative media or the people's press; to collect, gather, produce and circulate materials and resources on the alternative and progressive media.
  • To develop links with international media organizations/groups promoting press freedom.
  • To set up a memorabilia collection of Tony Zumel.
Activities of the AZCPF
  • Supports the publication of deserving books and other journalistic outputs.
  • Monitors processes in the media and the current events, and issues statements and letters to concerned parties to call attention to any breach in press freedom or the ethics of journalism.
  • Gives trainings on special interest topics on journalism and on the ethical standards of the profession to community and campus-based journalists/writers.
  • Provides resource materials for journalists/writers, cultural workers, professionals, students and researchers on the alternative media or the people's press.
  • Develops links and networks with progressive media organizations overseas.
  • Sets up a memorabilia of Tony Zumel's writings, books and personal memorabilia.
Board of Directors
  • Hon. Mayor Sonny Belmonte (Philippines)
  • Ms. Mela Castillo (Netherlands)
  • Mr. Carlos Conde (Philippines)
  • Prof. Helen Mendoza (Philippines)
  • Ms. Carolina "Bobbie" Malay (Philippines)
  • Mr. Nilo Mulles (Philippines)
  • Hon. Congressman Satur Ocampo (Philippines)
  • Atty. Edre Olalia (Philippines)
  • Mr. Benjie Oliveros (Philippines)
  • Mr. Deogracias dela Paz (Philippines)
  • Atty. Nilo Peña (Philippines)
  • Ms. Julie Po (Philippines)
  • Ms. Ninotchka Rosca (USA)
  • Dean Luis Teodoro (Philippines)
  • Gov. Jose V. Yap (Philippines)

AZCFP Secretariat

Philippines:
May Rodriguez
Executive Director

International:
Mela Castillo
D. Mondelo
Coordinators

Webmaster/Editor:
SpiderWeb Publishing

 

Zumel Center joining protest actions