CPP/Ang Bayan: Consecutive protests by the toiling masses against the US-Duterte regime

Propaganda article from the English edition of Ang Bayan posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (Sep 21): Consecutive protests by the toiling masses against the US-Duterte regime

Consecutive protests by the toiling masses against the US-Duterte regime were launched by various groups these past two weeks, including the national minorities of Manilakbayan. They opposed the unending extrajudicial killings of civilians under the regime’s triple war, pro-foreign economic policies and the threat of fascist rule in the whole nation.

September 8. The Movement Against Tyranny launched a Black Friday Protest against the brutal killings of minors under the war against drugs and all-out war. The protest started at 5:00 p.m. at the gate of Miriam College along Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City. They demanded justice for victims Kian Delos Santos and Carl Angelo Arnaiz, as well as Obillo Bay-ao who was killed by a CAFGU member.

Delegates from Women Asserting and Resisting (WAR) for Peace, with members from Asia and the Pacific who were holding a forum on Thailand, participated in the protest. Sandugo members marched from the University of the Philippines towards Miriam College to join the protest.

September 11. Thousands joined the protest led by CARMMA, SELDA and Sandugo in front of the Libingan ng mga Bayani where the Marcos family was commemorating the 100th birth anniversary of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. They were blocked by the police at the cemetery’s entrance.
According to Sandugo Co-chairperson Jerome Succor Abba, the Lumad national minorities will never forget the killings and landgrabbing of their ancestral lands by the Marcos dictatorship. Likewise, Bayan Muna denounced the US-Duterte regime in allowing the burial of Marcos in the said cemetery.

According to Bonifacio Ilagan, CARMMA spokesperson, the US-Duterte regime’s reversal of history is a grave transgression against the people. Its policy of imposing martial law in Mindanao and threat of imposing martial law all over the archipelago is no different from Marcos.

At the end of the program, they set afire a banner with depictions of the faces of Marcos and Duterte.

September 15. National democratic organizations, together with the delegation from Sandugo, marched towards the US Embassy carrying a large banner printed with US Imperialist No. 1 Terrorist in commemoration of the 26th year of ousting the US military bases in the Philippines. The police blocked their way and attempted to disperse the rally before reaching the embassy.

September 16. Patriotic lawyers under the National Union of People’s Lawyers launched a conference in celebration of the organization’s 10th year anniversary. The conference discussed the widespread killings of civilians and members of progressive organizations, and the patriotic lawyer’s determination to continue serving the Filipino people.

September 18. Karapatan-Sorsogon held a picket-protest in front of the Gubat Municipal Council to condemn the killing of civilian Sorsoganons.

In NCR, another picket was held by Manilakbayan delegates outside the offices of the Department of Energy, Aboitiz and Consunji (DMCI) to oppose energy projects that destroy their lands and livelihood.

 In particular, they held the DOE responsible for its collusion with the companies Aboitiz and DMCI in their nonstop plunder and mining of the national minorities ancestral lands which result in widespread violations of human rights.

September 19. Karapatan, Sandugo and Kadamay marched towards the office of the Department of Justice to censure DOJ Sec. Vitaliano Aguirre for his inaction in the face of the continuing killings of innocent civilians, widespread violations of human rights, and the filing of trumped up charges against activists.

In the afternoon, Kadamay staged a protest at Mendiola bringing along with them a large Duterte effigy and placards condemning the continuing civilian killings under Oplan Tokhang and Oplan Kapayapaan, demolitions, imposition of martial law in Mindanao and attempts to impose this all over the Philippines.

Before ending the program, they burned the effigy as a symbol of the urban poor’s anger.

September 20. PISTON held a vigil and lit candles at the foot of Mendiola bridge.

Meanwhile, Manilakbayan delegates continued to make university visits in Metro Manila to hold fora and discussions on the state of the national minorities. They were warmly received and supported by students of the University of Sto. Tomas, Ateneo de Manila and De La Salle University.

[Ang Bayan is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Philippines. Ang Bayan is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Hiligaynon, Waray and English. Download Ang Bayan from the Philippine Revolution Web Central at www.philippinerevolution.info.  Ang Bayan is published fortnightly by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines.]

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