Ed Garcia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ed Garcia

Filipino activist and writer

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1943

Place of Birth: Manila, Luzon, Philippines

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Edmundo "Ed" Guidote Garcia (b.
February 3, 1943) is a Filipino human rights activist, peace advocate, and writer.
He served as researcher at the international secretariat of Amnesty International and is a member of the board of trustees of its local chapter.
Garcia served as peace envoy and policy adviser at International Alert, a non-governmental peace-building organization working in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe.Garcia served as one of the framers of the 1987 Philippine Constitution and advocated for the inclusion of human rights and social justice provisions in the charter.
In 1970, he co-founded the militant youth political movement Lakasdiwa (Lakas ng Diwang Kayumanggi).
The movement and its distinct political ideology (Filipino Social Democracy) sought to create a nonviolent path towards social change—an alternative to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist (MLM) Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the National Democratic Front (NDF) which called for armed struggle—drawing from diverse sources such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Liberation Theology.