Today, we are still facing the same sadistic tyranny under Marcos Sr’s son, Bong Bong Marcos.
Bong Bong Marcos upholds his father’s legacy in 2024 by way of committing human rights violations, silencing the masses by way of the National Taskforce to End Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), police brutality, and red-tagging, a practice that tags activists and revolutionaries as communists. Red-tagging has endangered and in some cases, ended the lives of activists, journalists and concerned citizens who merely seek the government to do good for the people.
Environmental activists Jhed and Jonila Castro are recent victims of red-tagging and state repression. As these two youth organizers stood bravely to protect their community from imminent environmental disasters brought on by the Manila Bay reclamation project, Jhed and Jonila were forcefully disappeared by the local police force, emboldened by the National Taskforce to End Communist Armed Conflict.
After much outcry by their community members, they were immediately resurfaced but were coerced to denounce their activism in public.
However, these two brave youth actively went against the oppressive state’s wishes and denounced the NTF-ELCAC even after their abduction and torture.
The youth here in the diaspora stand by their side and condemn the human rights violations and state repression that youth organizers face in the Philippines.
ABOLISH NTF-ELCAC NOW!
END THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!
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(cont) Marcos Jr. also continues to pull the rug under the Filipino people’s feet by capitulating to foreign investment schemes, not real economic reforms that benefit the Filipino people by way of Charter Change. He and his lackeys lie to the Filipino people and coerce them into believing that an influx of foreign investments will uplift the lives of the masses. On the contrary, it will only push the Filipino masses into further debt! Allowing more foreign investments, namely the US, will only increase forced migration due to economic stress, handing education and locally owned industries to foreign forces. No to Charter Change! As we commemorate EDSA's 38th anniversary, President Bong Bong Marcos and VP Sara Durterte removed People’s Power as a national holiday. Why? To deny people’s history. Marcos Jr. deployed 85 hundred policemen in Metro Manila and Cebu to “secure” EDSA rallies. Using excessive police force and surveillance is an attempt to silence and intimidate the masses. But we know what the masses say, and the masses say no! NO TO HISTORICAL REVISIONISM! As youth activists, we dare to struggle against their exploitative regimes. We will not forget the sacrifice that many youth activists faced back then. We will continue to combat historical revisionism, seek justice for those who have suffered, expose politicians’ bogus reforms and legislations, fight off US imperialism and to struggle for genuine national democracy for the Philippines! Anakbayan and Sulong UBC calls for the youth to RESIST AND REJECT US-MARCOS-DUTERTE! DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM!
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