It is with deep regret that we inform the community that our beloved Prof. Arturo E. Balbastro peacefully joined his Creator on 28 September 2020 at the age of 90. Prof. Balbastro was a long time faculty of the UP College of Law, Founding Director of the OLA, and Holder of the Quintin Paredes Professorial Chair in Remedial Law. An authority in both Remedial and Commercial Law, Prof. Balbastro was also Dean of San Sebastian College Recoletos – College of Law. He was a member of the UP Law Class of 1955 and obtained two LL.M. degrees, one from UP Law and another from Harvard Law School. He is survived by his son Nonoy (UP Law Class ’93), his daughters-in-law Jaja and Carmela, and his grandchildren Alex/Violet and Enzo.

We thank profoundly Prof. Balbastro for his many years of selfless and devoted teaching and mentoring of many generations of students of the UP College of Law. We pray for the repose of his soul.

Source: UP College of Law Facebook post

Edberto Malvar Villegas, retired University of the Philippines-Manila and De La Salle University professor, book author and Marxist political economist died Monday night, September 7, after suffering a massive stroke last Friday.

Villegas, 80, died at the Makati Medical Center at 9:56pm, sources informed Kodao.

A founding member of the Kabataang Makabayan in November 1964, Villegas was a two-year political detainee under Ferdinand Marcos’ martial law and suffered intense physical and psychological torture along with his late wife Lilia.

He was chairperson of the University of the Philippines (UP) Political-Economy Department for several years and was a board member of research group IBON Foundation at the time of his death.

He also served as secretary general of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers from 1996 to 2001.

Villegas was a doctor in public administration.

A political economy expert, Villegas was a long-time National Democratic Front of the Philippines Negotiating Panel resource person on social and economic reforms.

He authored several books on economy and imperialism, including Studies in Philippine Political Economy; Global Finance Capital and the Philippine Financial System; Political Economy of Philippine Labor Laws; Japanese Capital and Investments in Southeast Asia; A Guide to Karl Marx’s Das Kapital; Oil Imperialism in the Philippines; Japanese Capitalism and the Asian Development Bank; Global Finance Capital and the Philippine Financial System as well as many pamphlets and essays.

Villegas’ political economy books are required reading for national democratic activists.

Villegas authored the novel Sebyo and Barikada: Maikling Kuwento ng mga Pilipino. He also wrote poetry.

He edited the historical book Gen. Malvar and the Philippine Revolution, authored by Doroteo Abaya and Bernard Karganilla and published in 1998.

Villegas was a grandson of General Miguel Malvar who served as interim President of the First Philippine Republic after Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by the Americans in Palanan, Isabela in 1901.

Villegas is survived by his two children, Karl and Iona, and grandchild Miguel as well as brothers Jose and Bernardo.

Abaya said Villegas will be interned at the family mausoleum in Sto. Tomas, Batangas on September 11. # (Raymund B. Villanueva)

Source: https://kodao.org/doc-ed-villegas-dies-after-massive-stroke/?fbclid=IwAR1TbVq7SDBTGT87vDvR1_uiMc0rr7uYQPtLL3ofdJwNZa5ZrxCTDI8Srrk

Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines — Maureen “Mo” Castillo Pagaduan, a champion of women’s empowerment and a retired professor in community development of the University of the Philippines (UP), died on Tuesday from a lingering ailment in Quezon City. She was 67.

Her death was announced by her husband, Jun Bandayrel, Inquirer associate editor and head of Page One operations.

Pagaduan taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in community development and in women and development at the UP College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD). She conducted classes in community organizing, feminist perspectives and strategies in women organizing, and community-based social enterprise.

She obtained her master’s degree in community development at UP CSWCD in 1981 and master’s degree in development studies, major in women and development, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.

Fruitful career

She acted as consultant to many nongovernmental organizations, several government agencies and international development institutions, as well as to the Inquirer, which led to the establishment of its training center.

Pagaduan cofounded the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies’ Alternative Development Program in 2017. Her involvement “greatly expanded and cemented the program’s engagement and cooperation with local communities of grassroots women’s organizations and indigenous peoples,” according to the center.

She served as executive director and board chair of the Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau, which has been at the forefront in the fight to end sexual violence against women and girls, and she actively worked toward empowering various communities of indigenous women, women survivors of Typhoon “Yolanda” and urban poor women. She was its treasurer before her death.

Professor Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, dean of the UP CSWCD, recalled how those who worked with Pagaduan described her as “one of the most passionate among us when it came to getting in right with the communities we serve and for the communities we serve.”

A life of caring

“People talked about how much you cared for the big issues but also your students, our partners in the community, your coworkers, your colleagues,” Claudio said of Pagaduan in a Facebook post.

In a separate entry, Pagaduan’s former student, Elmer Malibiran, said the two of them “had a lot of disagreements, but [she] always chose to love. And [she] taught me to hope even if everything seemed to fall apart.”

She “lent me [her] voice to find my own. [She] had faith in me, when I was in doubt,” said Malibiran, who is now based in New York.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1320919/maureen-c-pagaduan-67