The UP Cebu College of Communication, Art, and Design - CCAD organized its 3rd Annual Martial Law Literacy Month Series on September 1-5, 2025, where Marivir Montebon spoke on Campus Journalism at the time of Martial Law. Her talk was titled ‘The truth unmasks dictators, but will it drown with Disinformation?’

From a meaning-seeking teenager to a New York-based journalist, Montebon shares her journey in journalism, media ethics, and press freedom.

Harrowing memories of Martial Law, a Marcos legacy, came rushing back during the NYC screening of 11,103 on July 27, 2023. People teared up listening to the accounts of the survivors. Massacres, torture, rape. It was not for the faint of heart.

The 90 minute film about the Martial Law survivors in the Philippines is directed by Jeannette Ifurung and Mike Alcazaren and produced by Kara Magsanoc-Alicpala.

FilAm community leader in NY Nieva Quezon Burdick memorializes her older brother, the late Augusto Viloria Quezon, who died in a massacre during Martial Law in the Philippines. The young Quezon was a student activist in Manila and went underground when Martial Law was enforced. His family persuaded him to leave the country but he refused and said he will dedicate his life organizing poor farmers to have their equal share at justice and decent life. A year later, Augusto was killed in a massacre in Sorsogon.

Freedom is not free. It has to be earned - and defended. Freedom Memoirs is dedicated to narratives of courage of victims and survivors of Martial Law in the Philippines and other parts of the world. Like the horrors of the Holocaust, we shouldn’t forget our own collective pain - to continuously defend freedom.