Joe Dizon

Dizon was awarded the Tji Hak-Soon Justice and Peace Award in South Korea. His name was added to the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Wall of Remembrance on November 30, 2017.

He died of complications from diabetes at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute on November 12, 2013, at the age of 65.

Dizon and other leaders of the Estrada Resign Movement filed plunder charges against Joseph Estrada in 2001. Estrada was convicted of plunder in September 2007, a first against a former Philippine president. Dizon hailed the conviction as a step toward accountability and transparency in government.

Dizon became active in the Justice for Aquino and Justice for All movement to protest the 1983 assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr. During rallies, he would conduct mass to prevent violent dispersal by the government.

At the 1975 La Tondeña workers' strike, Dizon supported workers' demands that casual workers be regularized and granted sick leave benefits. Police beat the striking workers with truncheons and shoved them into police buses to be detained. Dizon and Sister Mary John Mananzan led priests and nuns who boarded police buses to protect the arrested workers. The La Tondeña strike was noted for being the first big strike to be held under martial law and was the first major act of open resistance against the Marcos dictatorship.

In the 1960s, he headed the Basic Christian Community-Community Organizing, a Catholic church program. He would later organize priests and nuns to push for the church's social justice agenda by convening the Solidarity Philippines and Clergy Discernment Group, an organization of priests and nuns.

Jose Pacturayan Dizon (September 29, 1948 – November 4, 2013), better known as Father Joe Dizon (often written as Fr. Joe Dizon), was an activist priest in the Philippines who fought against the dictatorship of then President Ferdinand Marcos.