Philippines My Philippines

Philippines my Philippines 1989 is a feature length documentary about the situation in the Philippines two years after the notionally democratic Cory Aquino replaced the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the People Power revolution of 1986 Touching on the influence and interests of the United States and Australia it examines the social context and dimensions of the violent conflict between government and big business on one hand and the rural and urban poor led by the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People Army on the other