http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/international_uclacseas_ps/rss Recent eScholarship items from Philippines/Schirmer Series Tue, 19 May 2026 10:46:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hv595vq <p>For one who would like to see U.S. relations with the Philippines democratic in form and content, the landing of General Douglas MacArthur at Leyte in October 1944 inspires feelings that are decidedly ambivalent. On the one hand the landing signifies the defeat of Japanese rule in the Philippines, and so can be seen as an important link in the global victory over the fascist axis. So much is positive. But in moving from a consideration of the general and global meaning of the event to its more particular and local significance for the Philippine people, the picture becomes darker, more negative. Viewed from this standpoint the MacArthur landing bears a striking resemblance to an earlier U.S. military incursion in Philippine affairs, Admiral George Dewey’s entry into Manila Bay in 1898.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hv595vq Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d07j0n5 <p>Talk delivered by Daniel Boone Schirmer in Manila, Philippines celebrating the 1991 vote in the Philippine Senate that rejected the renewal of the treaty between the United States and the Philippines to allow the continuation of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. The bases were closed in 1992, a year after the treaty was rejected.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d07j0n5 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9207n5bf <p>Processing the papers of Boone Schirmer was a wonderful experience for an undergraduate. The papers provided a memorable education both about a unique individual, and about an important period in history. Some of Schirmer's quirks also were revealed in the process.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9207n5bf Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Anulao, Liza https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mf4v5p5 <p>Daniel Boone Schirmer had a lasting impact on the movement in the United States to oppose martial law in the Philippines from 1972 until his death in 2006. He was active in several AMLM institutions such as the Philippines Information Bulletin, Friends of the Filipino People, and the Philippines program of the Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mf4v5p5 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Gaerlan, Barbara S. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g46h2xf <p>In 1947, when the newly independent Philippine government granted the United States the right to use military bases at Subic Bay and Clark Air Field, the United States government saw to it that the terms included the right of the U.S. to install on these bases "any type of weapons." From the very beginning the Pentagon insisted on establishing the right to relate U.S. bases in the Philippines to possible plans for nuclear war. Also, from the very beginning many Filipinos opposed U.S. bases there. In April 1983, the United States government and the government of the Philippines are to begin a review of the bases agreement of 1979. Opponents of the nuclear arms race in both the Philippines and the U.S. can greatly benefit from the work of Jorge Emmanuel detailing the potential effects of nuclear war upon the Philippines.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g46h2xf Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rr2253g <p>One of the main sources of international tension in the world today arises from the opposition of the U.S. corporate elite, the U.S. multi-nationals, to the effort of Third World peoples to gain control of Third World raw materials and natural resources. An example of this is now to be seen in the Mideast. Here the United States is making massive preparations for military intervention, for war, to control the prime natural resource of the Mideast, its oil. Because of the presence of U.S. bases, the Philippines is intimately and decisively connected to these war preparations right now.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rr2253g Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kx5k473 <p>In 1980, the Friends of the Filipino People (FFP) presented a paper to the United Nations Non-Governmental Organizations' (NGO) Conference on Disarmament stating that U.S. bases in the Philippines contravened the principles having to do with national sovereignty, military intervention, and nuclear arms put forward by the Final Document of the 1978 UN Special Session on Disarmament. FFP declared that U.S. bases, by their very nature and existence, undermined Philippine national sovereignty; that they constituted launching pads for U.S. military intervention in the affairs of other nations, as in Vietnam; and that they served as storage depots for U.S. nuclear arms and weapons. The present paper will serve to reaffirm these assertions. At the same time it will focus on a new feature of the present international situation that places these bases in even more pronounced opposition to the principles of disarmament enunciated by the 1978 Special Session: the Reagan Administration's... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kx5k473 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jc9q06r <p>The political question facing the voters in the United States is this: Will they allow an escalation of U.S. military and economic aid to the dictator Marcos to occur, carrying with it the threat of U.S. intervention Vietnam-style, to save the 2 - 3 billion dollar U.S. corporate investment in the Philippines and the imperial military bases? Or will the U.S. voters and taxpayers insist on an end to all military and financial aid to Marcos (or to any other repressive and puppet regime that may follow) so that the Philippine people may, at last, be allowed to determine their own destiny without United States interference?</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jc9q06r Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gs0h7zt <p>The irrational and horrifying concept of "limited nuclear war" now being promoted by the Reagan administration cannot be divorced from the historic position of the U.S. corporate empire at this time. It is an empire in decline. Its economic and poitical influence waning, it turns to the ultimate weapon of terror, nuclear war, in a blind and desperate attempt to redress the balance and preserve U.S. commercial and military superiority. And the U.S. military-industrial complex appears to be willing to risk the lives of the Filipino people (and everybody else's, for that matter), for this ignoble cause. Should a theater nuclear war in the Mideast or Asia erupt into a general nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, U.S. nuclear installations at Clark, San Miguel and Subic would drag the Philippines in with disastrous results.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gs0h7zt Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/085136gf <p>Many in the United States have been alarmed at Ronald Reagan's casual talk of limited nuclear war in Europe and have drawn reassurance from the massive European opposition to such talk. What is not so well understood is that Asians too are threatened by Pentagon schemes for limited nuclear war; they too are rising in opposition.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/085136gf Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03w8j7r7 <p>What is at stake in the question of cutting off aid to the Marcos dictatorship in truth is directly connected to the future of democracy in the United States. Congress, when it rejected the urgent advice of President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger and moved to cut off aid to South Vietnam, was merely responding to the declared will of the American people measured in poll after poll. And public opinion on this question had been molded by the popular movement against the Vietnam War, probably one of the greatest expressions of grass-roots democracy the United States has ever seen. I urge Congress to follow the lead of the members who have spoken out against aid to the Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. In this way they will be aligning themselves with most of the people of this country who have grown sick and tired of sending U.S. taxpayers money abroad to shore up the rule of corrupt foreign dictators. They will be speaking for a democratic foreign policy.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03w8j7r7 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/64v2x47b <p>I am honored to pay tribute to Daniel Boone Schirmer. Others already mentioned Boone’s important role during the Martial Law period, especially his critique of US policies in support of the Marcos dictatorship and the role of U.S. military bases. I will use this occasion to share some personal stories about Boone for those who did not know him personally.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/64v2x47b Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Emmanuel, Jorge https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hf5v5js <p>The U.S. Naval Base at Subic Bay in the Philippines enables the U.S. government to escalate at will its military presence in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. It thus has the potential of entangling the Philippines in a U.S. war of Third World intervention. Its status will be negotiated in coming years as the treaty governing the U.S. bases in the Philippines is due to expire in 1991.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hf5v5js Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dw2z5tm <p>William H. Sullivan is a self-acknowledged champion of the executive usurpation of Congressional powers, in their ultimate, war-making capacity. In Laos, as ambassador, he directed all the military and intelligence operations of the U.S. government. Due to his experience there and in Vietnam, he has become the United States’ foremost expert on counter-insurgency warfare in Southeast Asia. His public record in word and deed indicates that he would have no qualms about the commitment of the U.S. air force and ground troops to counter-insurgency operations in the Philippines, were he sent there as ambassador. The Senate would be wise to reject his nomination. The United States cannot afford another Vietnam.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dw2z5tm Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f0235qt <p>The Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines and U.S. aid thereto are attempts to nip growing nationalism in the bud, and to check a movement for effective independence before it gets too strong. The Marcos regime and its U.S. support constitute a threat and a menace to peace and security in Southeast Asia.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f0235qt Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7wt7d023 <p>U.S. military domination of the Third World -- its role as global policeman -- serves to compensate on the international scene for its relative economic decline. This provides the context in which to understand the U.S. attempt to keep Subic Naval Base in the Philippines.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7wt7d023 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tc6m1r3 <p>Philippine-U.S. relations appear to be on the verge of a radical and retrogressive shift -- re-instating U.S. military dominance of the island nation after it had been seriously challenged by the Philippine Senate's defeat of the bases treaty in 1991 -- and returning the Philippines once again to a limited role on the world stage as Washington's military subordinate, a part first thrust upon it by U.S. colonization nearly one hundred years ago. The pivot of this threatening reversion is an "Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement" (ACSA). However, opposition is growing to the proposed agreement, especially in the Philippines.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tc6m1r3 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2h73b48s <p>Report of 1990 Philippines trip in preparation for the upcoming 1991 vote in the Philippine Senate to reject or renew the treaty between the Philippines and the United States regarding U.S. military bases. A conference, and subsequent travel around the country revealed the explosive growth of anti-bases sentiment.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2h73b48s Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2221q0zw <p>The U.S. military bases in the Philippines have been a launching pad for intervention in the Philippines itself as well as in other world areas such as Vietnam and the Middle East.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2221q0zw Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w54h011 <p>The wars of foreign intervention waged by the United States in the 20th century have made the struggle against war the over-arching moral issue facing the nation. This struggle against war and imperialism upholds the best democratic traditions of the U.S. embodied in the revolution against British imperial rule.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w54h011 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mr8q5p7 <p>An analysis of the assassination of former Philippine Senator Benigno Aquino on August 21, 1983 upon his return to the Philippines from exile in the United States. The assassination shows the desperation of the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, as well as unmasking its brutality. Schirmer predicts that it will increase the momentum for the democratization of U.S. policy towards the Philippines, especially the cutting off of aid to the dictatorship and the withdrawal of the U.S. military bases there.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mr8q5p7 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Moss, Stephen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95z8f0v4 <p>A brief overview of the history of the group Friends of the Filipino People from the vantage point of twenty-one years since its founding. Framed in answer to questions submitted by researchers.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95z8f0v4 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bh9g11h <p>A review of United States-Philippines relations from 1898-1973 drawing parallels between the Philippine-American War, U.S. support for the Martial Law regime of Ferdinand Marcos, and the war between the United States and Vietnam.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bh9g11h Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Schirmer, Daniel Boone https://escholarship.org/uc/item/52x26075 <p>U.S. policymakers and pundits have often trumpeted U.S. policy in the Philippines as a model -- of colonialism, of democracy, of counter-insurgency -- that could be applied world wide. In fact, however, the Philippine model was always based on misrepresentation, and the lessons that we should take from the Philippine case are rather different from those usually mentioned. The Philippine model is examined during the period of the conquest at the turn of the last century; in 1946, when formal independence was achieved; during the anti-Huk campaign of the early 1950s; during martial law; and during the People Power revolt of 1986. In all these versions, the U.S. government stood as an opponent of the democratic aspirations of the Philippine people.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/52x26075 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Shalom, Stephen R