Workers and peasants, including rural women, picket the Mexican embassy in the Philippines seeking justice for the murder of Gustavo Salgado Delgado, an activist-leader of the Frente Popular Revolucionario in Mexico. The embassy received a formal complaint from the Philippines Chapter of the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS-Phils).
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Quezon City Sports Club
March 5, 2015
Mendiola, Manila
February 27, 2015
Various groups today marched to the historic mendiola bridge to again press for the resignation of President Benigno Aquino III in the aftermath of the bloody Mamasapano incident. This time the multisectoral groups were joined by students from different universities in Manila who marched from different points going to Mendiola. It was the first big protest march to Mendiola one month after the Mamasapano incident.
“From EDSA we return to Mendiola, which is near the seat of power. We come from various communities, school and workplaces demanding that the current leadership step down and that a People’s Council for National Unity, Reforms and Peace be established,”said Bayan secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
“The people’s demand for genuine change is spreading across the country. The lying president must go along with the rotten social system. People Power should lead to something more beneficial than just a change of leadership and a return to the old ways,” he added.
Speakers at the protest action discussed Aquino’s role in the Mamasapano incident, corruption issues, human rights violations, failed social services and other economic issues.
The protests come at a time when the French president Francois Hollande is holding a 2-day state visit to the Philippines. “Aside from brushing up on his French, now would be good time for Aquino to read up on the French revolution to remember what motivates people to rise up in struggle,” Reyes added.
The groups decried the Palace cover-up of aquino’s role in Mamasapano. “The Palace story line changes every week. The congressional hearing are being influenced to clear the President of any liability and instead pin all blame on officials such as General Napenas and General Purisima to run the operation along with the involvement of the US government,” Reyes said.
“We will be awaiting the results of the probe of the Board of Inquiry next week. we however won’t be surprised if the report clears the President of any wrongdoing. That is already a given. Still, from what has been revealed so far, the president cannot escape accountability,”he added.
More mass protests are expected to take place in the coming weeks in anticipation of the release of the finding of the PNP Board of Inquiry and as hearings at the House of Representatives are set to resume.
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February 25, 2015
This year’s EDSA anniversary coincides with the first month of the Mamasapano incident and what could well be the worst political crisis to hit the Aquino administration. Protests across the nation were held to call for Aquino’s accountability in Mamasapano. In Manila, groups held an interfaith prayer and human chain despite being blocked by hundreds of police along EDSA Santolan.
February 25, 2015
This year’s EDSA anniversary coincides with the first month of the Mamasapano incident and what could well be the worst political crisis to hit the Aquino administration. Protests across the nation were held to call for Aquino’s accountability in Mamasapano. In Manila, groups held an interfaith prayer and human chain despite being blocked by hundreds of police along EDSA Santolan.
“The nation is at a crossroads. Whether to simply accept a lying, inept and puppet President or to continue the great tradition of People Power for genuine change. We choose the latter. We choose to fight for truth and accountability and meaningful change. Thus, Aquino must go,” said Bayan secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
“The past month has seen the President repeat one lie after another in order to escape accountability in the Mamasapano debacle. Aquino merely shuffles the blame between SAF Director Napenas to suspended PNP Chief Purisima. Aquino takes none for himself. He has no regrets authorizing a suspended general to run the operation,” Reyes added.
Bayan said that Aquino’s biggest sin to date is authorizing a suspended PNP chief to run a sensitive operation via remote control while disregarding all necessary government coordination. “The problem is not that Purisima lied to Aquino. The problem was Aquino placing a suspended official in charge and relying on that official instead of the proper government officials and agencies. The problem was the President all along. Now he lies to us repeatedly to cover-up his role,” Reyes said.
Bayan said that Aquino cannot continue invoking the memory of his parents and the anti-dictatorship struggle just to shield himself from any accountability. “EDSA was also about holding those in power accountable. Aquino cannot make himself an exception in the quest for truth and accountability,” Reyes added.
“EDSA is not about one color (yellow) nor the plight of one family. It is about the people rising up for change,” he added.
Power of the People
The group said that in the face of the lies and cover up of the President, the people are called on to summon the great tradition of “people power”.
“The power of the people is truly realized in united action. It is a potent weapon for change. Yet in the past, its fruits have largely been enjoyed only by a few, as the rotten social system remains. It is therefore necessary that people power yield something more than business-as-usual outcomes,” Reyes said.
In calling for a People’s Council for Unity, Reforms and Peace to immediately replace Aquino before holding elections, Bayan is hoping that the next people power would be more beneficial to the people and would pave the way for more meaningful changes.
“Apart from calling on Aquino to step down, the people demand land reform, national industrialization, sovereignty and peace. There is of course no illusion that one ‘people power’ would be able to achieve all these. It would necessary that the people wield their power as often as possible to advance these goals,” he added.
Bayan will lead a march to Mendiola on February 27 to again call on Aquino to step down. It is expected to be the first major protest near the Palace after the Mamasapano incident. ###
Participants in yesterday’s planned prayer and human chain activity to call for justice and accountability on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the first People Power uprising vented their ire on police officers who blocked their path and caused metro-wide gridlocks. Instead of sustaining the people’s solidarity in light of the Mamasapano debacle that butchered 44 of their colleagues, the police’s duplicity wasted the rare goodwill heaped on them by the people, the participants said.
Church leaders revealed in their speeches the excuses offered by police commanders who previously agreed to plans laid out by event organizers. These were greeted by jeers and hoots by the event participants.
A human chain was nevertheless held in the late afternoon when all efforts for the police to remove their blockade failed. It stretched from the foot of the EDSA-Santolan flyover all the way to EDSA-New York.
Panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa war on terror ng US.
February 17, 2015
5. Bakit po kaya sinasabing makapangyarihan ang US sa lahat ng mga bansa sa daigdig? Hindi po ba talaga maaaring tumutol ang isang bansa kung ayaw nila sa mga polisyang pang-ekonomiya na inilalako ng US sa kanila?
JMS: Makapangpayarihan ang US hindi lamang dahil sa monopolyo kapital nito kundi dahil sa malaking lakas militar nito, laluna ang kanyang hightech military equipment.
6. Madalas pong sangkot ang US sa mga gerang agresyon partikular sa ilang mga bansa sa Middle East, hindi po ba nauubos talaga ang kanyang mga gamit pandigma? Hindi po ba nagagalit ang mamamayang US sa ginagawa ng kanilang pamahalaan?
JMS: Ginagawang negosyo ng US ang paggawa ng mga military equipment at ginagamit nito ang mga kagamitan na ito para sa mga gerang agresyon para mangibabaw sa mga bansang may malaking likas yaman, laluna sa gas at langis. Pero magastos ang gera, masyadong magastos at itinataya ang kabang yaman ng bayan at buhay ng mga sundado. Sa agresyon ng US sa Irak at Afghanistan, naglustay ang US ng higit na 4 na trilyong dolyar at libu-libong buhay ng mga Amerikano. Kung gayon, nagagalit ang masang Amerikano sa paglustay sa malaking pera ng bayan at buhay ng mga Amerikano.
7. Maaari po ba kayong maghalimbawa ng bansang lumaban na sa US at nagwagi.
JMS: Lumaban sa US at nagwagi ang mga mamamayan ng Korea, Cuba, Byetnam, Kambodya at Laos.
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Panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa war on terror ng US.
February 17, 2015
3. Ano po ba ang relasyon ng Pilipinas sa US at bakit sinasabing sunudsunuran si Aquino sa US?
JMS: Ang Pilipinas ay malakolonya ng US. At ang gobyerno sa isang malakolonya ay papet lamang sa US. Kung gayon, tinatawag na papet at sunudsunuran ang presidente na si Aquino.
4. Ano po ang ganansya ng US sa kanyang pakikialam sa ekonomiya at pulitika ng mga bansa sa Middle East at Asya?
JMS: Malaki ang ganansya ng US sa pakikialam nito sa ekonomya at pulitika ng Middle East. Kinokontrol, dinadambong at pinagkakatubuan ng US ang mga likas na yaman (laluna ang gas at langis), ang palengke at larangan ng pamumuhunan.
(Photo from Philstar.com)
Panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Renato Reyes Jr., Secretary General ng Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) hinggil sa kanilang pananaw tungkol sa nagaganap na hearing sa Kongreso at Senado ng Mamasapano Encounter
Panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa naganap na senate hearing tungkol sa Mamasapano encounter.
February 10, 2015
2. Parang maaabswelto pa yata si Purisima bilang operator ng
Oplan Exodus at madidiin ng husto si Napeñas. May komento po ba kayo sa bagay na ito?
JMS: Si General Napeñas talaga ang piniling maging fall guy para pagtakpan ang responsabilidad nina Purisima at Aquino. Pero nasabi na niya dati na si Purisima ang nasa command at calling the shots mula sa kanyang White House sa Camp Crame. Sabi rin niya sa Senado na si Purisima ang nagdala sa kanya kay Aquino sa Pangarap (house niya). Kalokohan talaga na pinalilitaw ng mga alipures ni Aquino sa Senado at media na walang pananagutan sina Aquino at Purisima.
(Photo/Gen.Purisima?Interaksyon.com)