Esquire Philippines Asks Apo Hiking Society member Jim Paredes about how he got into activism.
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00:00I was into school, philosophy, history, even literature, English lit, but we were so politicized
00:11during that time because 1972 was Marshall Law, declared Marshall Law, 1973 we graduated,
00:18but prior to that it was really building up to it.
00:22When we would have a school, a class for example, and the teacher would say, please give me
00:28the summary of, you know, let's say, Midsummer Night's Dream, what is the relevance of that
00:37when the Sakadas are starving in the whole hood, yeah, that's right, the teacher was
00:45lost, didn't know what to answer.