"Kakaiba ang martial law ng 1972/ May namamatay/ Pero hindi nabibilang ng DOH./ Hindi puno ang mga ospital/ Ng mga agaw buhay at/ Mabilis na yayao./ Kakaiba ang ‘martial law’ ng 2020/ Ang dami ng nagugutom/ Marami ang nakatira sa mga jeepney/ Dahil napalayas na/ At hindi na makabayad ng upa."

We, the member student publications of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines, strongly call and urge every campus journalist to join us in commemorating the evils witnessed by the nation during the Marcos dictatorship. In honor of our brave predecessors Liliosa Hilao, Leticia Ladlad, Ditto Sarmiento and Antonio Tagamolila, we will never forget the horrors that the Marcos regime tried to hide but never succeeded. We commit ourselves to the highest standards of journalism to serve the oppressed and exploited masses. We won’t and will never forget!

"We call on Duterte and his cohorts to end the repression now in the Philippines and to take accountability for all the human rights violations they committed against the Filipino people. We challenge him to face the ICC,” the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines said.

Throughout those first few critical years, the forces that resisted martial law, in Metro Manila and in other regions from Cagayan Valley to Davao, kept a high morale and clear direction of work greatly assisted by the underground publications.