The mural on Masonic Avenue shows him arms linked with other activist icons of the 1980s and surrounded by a tapestry of political images. Lean Alejandro would have been amused at being part of a ...

Just days after he was assassinated in Quezon City in 1987, Lean Alejandro was reborn in San Francisco. Moved by his martyrdom, a group of artists decided to feature Lean on a mural honoring activists ...

The flyers on our dining table caught my work-worn eyes. They weren’t the typical glossy food delivery specials or announcements for home spa treatments. They were one-color bond paper handouts for a ...

‘The struggle for freedom is the next best thing to actually being free,” said the late UP student leader Leandro Alejandro. Popularly known as Lean, he was a student leader and later key figure in ...

Manila, Philippines, September 2, 2013--Revisiting scenes from the tumultuous Martial Law era in the Philippines to the People Power Revolution, up to Leandro Legara Alejandro's untimely death in 1987 ...

POOR Lean Alejandro. Perhaps he never saw the bullet that shot his face off while on his way to his office in September 1987. The former student-leader and sworn activist, a young enemy of the Marcos ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Lean Alejandro would have turned 52 this week. He was 27 when he died in September 1987. I was going to wait a couple more months before writing this, in time for the 25 th anniversary ...