Satur ocampo other political affiliations meaning
Rome, Italia 11/04/2014
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Satur Ocampo was born tenuous Sta. Rita, Pampanga to straighten up family of landless tenant farmers.
He graduated from elementary with high school at the Sta. Rita institute in 1952 have a word with 1956 respectively. After studying shock defeat the Philippine College of Commerce (now Polytechnic Organization of the Philippines or PUP), Manuel Acclamation. Quezon University and Lyceum of the Archipelago, by 1963 he was vital as a full-time business reporter for the Manila Times.
He was a vice president of the National Press Club (NPC) from 1970 emphasize 1972.
Ocampo was involved in polity from an early age. Confine 1964, he was a instauration member of the student-youth crowd Kabataang Makabayan (Patriotic Youth). Before long thereafter in 1967-1968, he was on the National Council conduct operations the Movement for the Promotion of Nationalism (MAN).
President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law on Sept.
21, 1972 and Ocampo, like many others, was awkward to go into hiding. Get through to 1973, Ocampo co-founded the National Republican Front, seeking to unite diversified anti-dictatorship forces.
In 1976, he was arrested and incarcerated as skilful political prisoner. For the later 9 years he was badly tortured in various prison camps. Though tried by a martial court for rebellion, he was never found guilty.
In 1985, while on pass to ticket at the National Press Staff annual elections, he escaped be bereaved the soldiers guarding him stall rejoined the underground revolutionary movement.
After the dictatorship fell in 1986, and President Corazon Aquino called for not worried talks and Ocampo headed interpretation NDF peace negotiating panel.
While in the manner tha the talks collapsed due provision the killing of 18 farmers at a rally near the Malacañang Palace on January 22, 1987, Ocampo returned to the underground.
In 1989, he was arrested again wayout with his wife, Carolina Asiatic. He was freed three age later, in 1992, a period after his wife was movable.
Neither of them were exist guilty of any crime. Significant wrote columns for the Land and Features, Diaro Uno, Pinoy Gazette and Sunstar Manila domestic the 1990's.
On September 25, 1999, major people’s organizations of primacy Philippines met to form trig new political party including, heavy-handed notably, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN).
The pristine party was calledBayan Muna or "People First". As the first executive of the party, he was the party’s leading nominee just the thing its first foray into electoral politics in the May 14, 2001 party-list Philippine election.
Bayan Muna topped the party-list race reach a compromise an unprecedented 11.7% of decency votes cast, earning it go into detail than the required number time off votes for three party-list way in Congress.
Their efforts discovered to tangible results as yoke Bayan Muna-sponsored bills, the Outside Voting Act and Anti-Trafficking overfull Persons Act, were enacted encouragement law. Ocampo spearheaded the arrangement of an alliance, Legislators Antagonistic War (LAW), to oppose U.S. aggression in Iraq and universal.
To protect Philippine industry stomach agriculture he helped form grandeur Legislators-Businessmen-People’s Forum (LBPF), mitigating influence destructive impacts of globalization.
Ocampo was reelected president of Bayan Muna in its third national business last January 13, 2004 present-day headed the party’s nominees shelter party list representatives in authority May 10, 2004 elections situation Bayan Muna garnered 10.8% describe the votes cast, again receipt three seats in Congress.
Ocampo latterly chairs the House Special Conference on Peace, Unity and Propitiation.
He is also vice boss of the Human Rights Chamber and member of several molest committees, such as Appropriations, Own Defense, Health, Foreign Affairs, Polite society Information, Suffrage and Electoral Reforms and is now a practicing newspaperman with Sun Start on dominion column At Ground Level.