In Search of the Sacadas

In Search of the Sacadas

It was one of those rare moments of clarity, or one when one’s view of the world suddenly comes into complete focus. In my mind, I, of course, knew that this happens all the time, in one shape or another, in places both seen and unseen.  I only even saw  the aftermath. But some of us were there, in that exact moment when bullets rained on the farmworkers of Hacienda Luisita on November 16, 2004. In the event’s wake, I did see the slippers and st…