From the English edition of Ang Bayan, the official news (propaganda) organ of the CPP (Apr 7): Progressive youth launch 2-day caravan vs Balikatan
Youth groups roundly assailed the ongoing 29th Philippine-US Balikatan Exercises 2013, calling it a thinly veiled preparation for war by the US against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
The youth joined other patriotic groups in a two-day caravan towards Central Luzon.
The two-week military exercise, which began in Central Luzon on April 5 and will end on April 17, is being joined by up to 4,000 American soldiers. At the height of tensions between the US and North Korea, the US government sent 30 airplanes of various capacity, 12 of them F/A-18 Hornet jet fighters. This is on top of three warships led by the USS Tortuga.
The demonstrators slammed the use of the Philippines as a launching pad for US wars.
Earlier, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) lambasted the launching of Balikatan as “a show of contempt against Philippine sovereignty and a show of force in the face of heightened US war preparations in the Korean Peninsula.”
The CPP assailed the US and Aquino governments for deceiving the Filipino people by saying that the Balikatan exercises are all about humanitarian assistance and disaster preparedness. “For the past several years, the US has been using humanitarian and disaster operations in order to surreptitiously carry out combat and intelligence operations and set up their spy and communications network.”
Members of the Kabataan Partylist and League of Filipino Students gathered early on April 5 at the People Power Monument and joined a march of other patriotic groups to Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City where high-ranking military officials from the US and the Philippines were holding a meeting. They were to proceed to Central Luzon where war games were being held at Subic, Olongapo City; Crow Valley in Pampanga; Tarlac; and Nueva Ecija.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20130407/progressive-youth-launch-2-day-caravan-vs-balikatan
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