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[lebbin // @_defiantjazz]

all people deserve a safe place to live, no questions asked.

[Lance Alba #JoinAnakbayan @albalnce]

The most memorable scene of today's Labor Day protests will be this: Ka Jerome Adonis and Ka Danilo Ramos forming a hammer and sickle, symbolizing the solidarity between workers and farmers–the Filipinos the youth must fight for.

#LaborDay2025
#LaborDay

[AlterMidya @altermidya]

Family and women's rights advocates pay tribute to Lola Estelita Dy, 94, one of the last surviving Filipino "comfort women."

Lola Estelita Dy was 14 years old when she was abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II. She remained in captivity for 3 weeks. She kept her ordeal from her family until 1993 when she, along with hundreds of Filipino women, came forward publicly as “comfort women” to demand historical inclusion and accountability from the government of Japan.

According to Lila Pilipina, an organization that advocates justice for comfort wonen, Lola Estelita Dy was one of its most committed members.

📸 Vince Reasonda/altermidya

[Agham Youth UPD @AghamYouth_UPD]

Congratulations sa bagong tagapagtaguyod ng imperyalismo! 🤩

While the USA welcomes a new face, we must recognize that only its figurehead has changed, and that the fight to bring down imperialism must continue!

#ImperyalismoIbagsak
#USPaawatNaPls
#USAElection2024

[Renato Reyes, Jr. @natoreyes]

Whether it will be Kamala Harris or Donald Trump who wins in the US presidential elections, we expect that US foreign policy regarding the Philippines will remain largely unchanged.

We do not see an end to US military exercises and the pre-positioning of weapons in the country. We do not foresee an end to the VFA and EDCA and the cold-war relic that is the Mutual Defense Treaty under both Harris or Trump.

US policies in Asia, especially regarding China, are the result of the US economic crisis. The US wants to be the main economic and military power and has sought dominance in this region. China is a rising imperialist power with its own economic and military agenda threatening US economic interests . Whether it’s Harris or Trump, the economic and military contradictions between the two super-powers will remain. The US is not likely to end its policy of encirclement of China and will continue to use the Philippines as a launching pad for its own geopolitical intervention . The US has already prepositioned a missile system in the northern part of the Philippines, the first time a weapons system of the sort has been placed on Philippine soil since the US bases were kicked out in 1991.

We also do not see any meaningful shift when it comes to US military aid to the Philippines despite the terrible human rights track record of the country. Military aid has been the go-to means of the US to justify its prolonged military presence in the Philippines. Human rights groups have objected to US military aid because these are being used to commit human rights violations in the course of counter-insurgency campaigns. The US has not made military aid contingent on compliance with international human rights standards, as seen from the US support for the genocide in Gaza.

Our status as a US neocolony will remain whether it’s a Democrat or Republican who runs the White House. There should be no illusions that any meaningful change will be coming soon. The only question is how bad will the US crisis get under a new US president and how the drive to address the crisis will continue to affect countries like the Philippines.

As to China, it is important that the Philippines not tie its foreign policy to that of the US. If we are to uphold our national interests in the West Philippine Sea and exercise our sovereign rights in our EEZ, we must do so apart from or not entangled with US geopolitical interests. The US remains an imperialist power with its own goals in the region which are not identical to Philippine interests. We should pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the WPS and refrain from allowing ourselves to be used in the power-play of imperialists like the US or China.

Folks in the US are of course well within their rights to choose whom to vote for. That is their prerogative based on their objective situation . But from the POV of people affected by US foreign policy, from Palestine to the Philippines, there’s really not much hope that things will change fundamentally, whatever the outcome may be.

Whatever happens after November 5, continue to fight US imperialism and struggle for national and social liberation. ###

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

This cartoon was drawn in 2006.

[🧐 @kelanocyte]

Philippine justice system is a circus.

See how they arrested Reina Mae Nasino with made-up evidence vs Alice Guo with strong evidence of crime 🤡

[Tarantadong Kalbo @KevinKalbo]

#TaumbayanSaSenado ✊🏼

[Renato Reyes, Jr. @natoreyes]

Bakit tatakbo ang Makabayan sa Senado?

Mula nang inanunsyo ng Makabayan ang kapasyahan nitong magpatakbo ng sariling slate, upang ialay ang sarili bilang oposisyon ng bayan, slate na bubuuin ng iba't ibang aping sektor ng lipunan, nakatanggap tayo ng samu't saring reaksyon. 🧵

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru_]

NOW: Bangladeshi protesters storm the residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after she fled the country for India in a military helicopter moments earlier. Yesterday, the deadliest day since the outbreak of the uprising, shook the country with almost 100 deaths.

As news of Hasina’s resignation spread, crowds poured into the streets of Dhaka for “victory celebrations,” openly defying the nationwide curfews that had previously been brutally enforced by police and military personnel.

The PM had a violent record responding to the student-led uprising, calling the protesters criminals and saboteurs. Hasina not only imposed the nationwide curfew but also cut off access to phones and the internet for weeks to crush the uprising.

Initially sparked months ago by anger over controversial government job quotas, the protests quickly escalated into widespread unrest. This unrest evolved into a full-blown uprising against Hasina and her ruling Awami League party, culminating in the historic events that have now unfolded.

[lebbin // @_defiantjazz]

@hulu_support I cannot log in to hulu because it's linked to my old MyDisney account, an account I just deleted. I get stuck on this screen even when filled out correctly, and the "Agree and Continue" button doesn't work. I can't login to file a support ticket. please help!

[Starbucks Workers United @SBWorkersUnited]

🚨CONGRATULATIONS to workers at the NERV HQ location in Tokyo-3, who unanimously unionized today! The impact of their victory reminds us that as long as we have solidarity with one another, everything will be alright.

Congratulations! Congratulations!

[tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ @zhaabowekwe]

I’m an Indigenous woman of Anishinaabe territory, being sued for $4M, facing 1 yr jail for locking to a CAT machine at Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would serve Elbit Systems.

Our peoples will *never* die. We are the land, the land is us. We stand with you, relatives ✊🏽❤️ #IWD

[Project Gunita @ProjectGunitaPH]

“Pilipino tayo, Temy! Di tayo dapat maglaban!”
“Sumama na kayo sa amin!”
“Mga Pilipino kayo!”
“Bayan natin ito, bayan natin ito!”

Actual footage of Filipinos at EDSA pleading to soldiers to disobey Marcos’ attack orders:
#DefendHistoricalTruth
#EDSA38

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru_]

Today would've been the 83rd birthday of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton. Watch him declare that the final battle for global liberation will be waged by oppressed peoples inside the belly of the beast.

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru_]

On this day in 1899, the US started what became known as the “first Vietnam” when it began colonizing the Philippines. During the “Philippine-American War”, up to 1.4 million Filipinos were massacred. 🧵

[darius. @_dariussimpson]

message…

[Renato Reyes, Jr. @natoreyes]

January 16, 2024 Transport protest
The jeepney is the weapon.