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Podcast: Howie Severino Presents
Episode: [VIDEO] Malakas na malakas ang patriotism ng Pilipino – Manolo Quezon
Description: In time for the 125th anniversary of June 12, 1898, public intellectual Manuel L. Quezon III, grandson of the country's second president Manuel L. Quezon, questions whether that is even the right date to mark the nation's independence.Howie and Manolo discuss Filipino victories over Spanish forces in many provinces that led to a short-lived independence, before the US arrived to occupy and colonize the country. Manolo reminds listeners that even after defeat in the Philippine-American War, Apolinario Mabini wrote that the struggle for independence would continue through other means, which did happen through lobbying and advocacy when the United States granted...