CPP/Ang Bayan: Protests for human rights, against budget cuts and dictatorship

Propaganda article from the English language edition of Ang Bayan posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Sep 21, 2020): Protests for human rights, against budget cuts and dictatorship

Various sectoral groups launched successive street and online protests in the past few weeks.

Youth groups staged a picket in front of the Congress in Quezon City in conjuction with the budget hearing on education last September 16. This was followed by a mobilization by the urban poor who asserted their right to emergency aid in conjunction with the budget hearing for the De­partment of Social Welfa­re and Deve­lop­ment.

A day earlier, teachers mounted a picket to demand higher budget for education.

On September 14, hundreds of drivers converged in front of the headquarters of the Land Trans­por­tation Franchising and Regu­latory Board in Quezon City. They demanded that all jeepney drivers be allowed to resume their operations, as well as the reopening of all routes and the junking of the jeep­ney pha­seout scheme. The agency allowed 1,159 more jeepneys to travel but drivers asserted that this is insignificant. Around 58,000 jeepneys are still not allowed to travel leaving approximately 116,000 drivers without income.

On the same day, rights group Karapatan launched the Global Day of Action for the Philippines in conjuction with the opening of the session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Five United Nations special rapporteurs, members of the European, Basque and Australian parliament, international coalitions and institutions, and human rights defenders in Hongkong, Korea, Kenya, Turkey and South Africa participated in the program.

Martial law victims and their supporters protested at the Ban­ta­yog ng mga Ba­ya­ni on September 11, in conjunction with the birthday of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. They condemned the Marcos Day bill which aims to declare September 11 as a holiday in Ilocos to commemorate Marcos.

In Davao City, members of Gab­riela, KMU and Karapatan marched across the Orcullo Drive last September 14 to protest against the continuing and widespread red-tagging and harassment campaign of the military and local government directed against local activists.

[Ang Bayan is the official news organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines and is issued by the CPP Central Committee. It provides news about the work of the Party as well as its analysis of and views on current issues. Ang Bayan comes out fortnightly and is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Ilokano, Waray, Hiligaynon and English.]

https://cpp.ph/2020/09/21/protests-for-human-rights-against-budget-cuts-and-dictatorship/