Walden Bello
| Walden Bello | |
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| Member of the Philippine House of Representatives for Akbayan Partylist | |
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In office June 30, 2007 – March 16, 2015 |
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| Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at University of the Philippines | |
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Walden Flores Bello November 11, 1945 Manila, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Political party |
Communist Party of the Philippines (1970s-2000s) Akbayan Citizens' Action Party (2000s-present) |
| Alma mater | Ateneo de Manila University, Princeton University |
Walden Flores Bello (born November 11, 1945) is a Filipino academic who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South.
Bello was born in Manila, Philippines. His family paid for his Jesuit schooling at Ateneo de Manila University and he attended grad school at Princeton University. While attending Princeton in the United States, he was introduced to the anti-war movement and led an occupation of the Woodrow Wilson Center. The confrontation with police during these protests radicalized Bello and inspired him to pursue a life of activism. For his graduate studies, he traveled to Chile and stayed in shanty towns following Salvador Allende's socialist rise to the presidency.
When he returned to the United States to defend his dissertation, he lost his ability to return to the Philippines after his passport had been revoked when the declaration of Martial Law by then-President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972.
After earning his PhD in sociology in 1975 from Princeton, he then became part of the anti-Marcos movement, began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley and became a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines. In 1978 after being arrested multiple times during protests, he was arrested after leading the takeover of the Philippine consulate in San Francisco. Bello was later released following a hunger strike to bring attention to the situation the Philippines was facing. In the early-1980s, Bello also broke into the World Bank headquarters and stole 3,000 pages of confidential documents that he said would show the connection of the IMF and World Bank to Marcos. He later wrote Development Debacle: the World Bank in the Philippines in 1982 surrounding the documents stating that this publication contributed toward the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines, with Bello returning to his native state two years later.
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