Martial Law survivors fume at renewed rights violations under Marcos Jr.
On the 52nd anniversary of the official declaration of martial law by Ferdinand Sr., the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law (CARMMA) said Ferdinand Jr. is himself gaining notoriety with 105 extrajudicial killings (EJK) under his term, in addition to 75 frustrated EJKs, 15 enforced disappearances, 145 illegal arrests and detentions, 42,426 forcibly evacuated, 44,604 victims of bombings and 63,379 victims of indiscriminate firing have been reported from July 2022.
Martial Law survivors rejoice over SC ruling on Marcos ill-gotten wealth
“[T]his would be, as far as we know, the first ruling on Marcos’ illegal wealth under the presidency of the son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who has repeatedly denied that his family amassed millions worth of wealth during the Marcos Sr. dictatorship,” CARMMA said.
Martial law survivors oppose DepEd’s whitewashing of Marcos dictatorship
“We at the [CARMMA] flag and condemn in the strongest possible terms the [DepEd]’s shameless scheme to whitewash and distort our history with its September 6, 2023 memo to change ‘Diktadurang Marcos’ to ‘Diktadura’ in the Grade 6 Araling Panlipunan curriculum of the newly-launched Matatag curriculum,” CARMMA said.
Martial law survivors see emerging scheme to recover Marcoses ill-gotten wealth
The dismissal of yet another corruption charge against the Marcoses is part of an emerging pattern to recover the family’s ill-gotten wealth, martial law survivors warned.
Human rights stalwart Marie Hilao-Enriquez passes away
“My mother, Amaryllis Hilao-Enriquez, passed away at 12 noon today. She is reunited with her sister, Liliosa, who died under martial law in the Philippines,” Andrea wrote on Facebook.
Martial law survivors urge COMELEC to cancel ‘tax evader’ Marcos Jr’s candidacy
“A thief, a liar, a convicted tax evader, and the unrepentant son of an ousted dictator should never be allowed to hold or run for public office — much more the highest and most powerful position in the land,” CARMMA said in a statement.
‘We will never accept a repeat of such regimes’
We will never accept a repeat of such regimes, which will be made worse with a Duterte-Marcos tandem in the 2022
elections. We call on all freedom-loving Filipinos to vigorously reject, campaign and vote against them and to continue to demand accountability from them.”
Batas na gawing modelo at holiday ang kaarawan ni Marcos, tinututulan
Nagprotesta ang mga progresibong grupo at mga dating biktima ng batas militar sa Bantayog ng mga Bayani, Setyembre 11, bilang pagtutol sa pagsasabatas na gawing modelo at holiday ang kaarawan ng dating diktador na si Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos.
Progressives say fight continues 31 years after EDSA
Progressive organizations marched to EDSA to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the first EDSA People Power uprising that deposed the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. While they recalled the horrors that many suffered under Marcos’ Martial Law, they said genuine change has yet to happen. The group did not join the pro-Aquino or the pro-Duterte activities which […]
Activists slam Duterte on Human Rights Day
PROGRESSIVE organizations have had enough of human rights violations under the five month old Rodrigo Duterte government. Thousands of torch-bearing activists stormed Mendiola on International Human Rights Day last December 10 to protest human rights violations under Duterte, including more than 6,000 extrajudicial killings, militarization of communities and the hero’s burial of the late dictator […]