#JunkTerrorBill

[heyrosiebee]

FILIPINOS URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP: A CALL TO ACTION

art by the wonderful @franshookie-art (DO NOT REPOST this image without their specific permission. check out more of their art on twitter.)

hi, all.. i know that a lot of our focus is on the BlackLivesMatter movement atm (which is wonderful and should’ve happened a long time ago), and i hate to distract you from that, but there’s something horrible happening in my country, the Philippines (yes, the one being lead by the so-called Filipino version of Donald Trump), right now.

our national government has passed a bill that’ll essentially take away our constitutional rights to freedom of speech and fair trial. it’s called the Anti-Terrorism Bill, but we’ve dubbed it Terror Bill. here’s a summary of what it entails:

if you want to read the actual bill in its entirety, here’s a link to the official Senate of the Philippines website, where you can download a pdf copy. i’d like you to keep in mind the political climate in our country, though, and just how rampant corruption and police brutality are here.

it has already been passed by the Senate; all it needs is the House of Representatives’ approval, and it will be enforced. if you want to help stop this from happening, here are a few ways:

sign and share this petition. we’re so close to 300,000 signatures!!!

send e-mails to the Office of the President and the Senate. there’s an e-mail protest currently going on. i have qualms about copy-pasting the message, but ultimately, this method is a lot more effective than petitions:

these posters were made and posted by @tentenyukki on twitter.

educate yourself about the bill and how it will affect us when it’s approved. here are some news articles, editorials, and thought pieces to get you started:

🗞 gov’t endorsing/defending the bill: 1, 2, 3, 4

🗞 reactions to the bill’s passing: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

spread the word. on social media, our tags are #JunkTerrorBill and #JunkTerrorBillNow, but don’t stop there; tell your friends and family. please. people need to know this is happening.

your help could save the lives of millions of Filipinos, and we’d really, really appreciate it. i don’t usually ask for much, but when it comes to urgent issues like this, i can’t stay silent. unlike with BLM, i can speak my truth about this because i know personally what it’s like to be a Filipino citizen and to live in the Philippines. i hope it’s heard, and we keep an ounce of what little dignity we have as a “sovereign” country and rights as a “sovereign” people.

some of you might unfollow or get mad because this isn’t strictly studyblr content, but it’s not about aesthetic right now. i need your help. we need to hurry.

thank you for taking time to read! let’s uphold human rights together. #JunkTerrorBillNow!

#current events #social issues #junkterrorbill #junk terror bill #terror bill philippines #junkterrorbillnow #sonderstudy #benestudy #stillstudies #studylustre #eveistudying #heypat #heykenzie #greenlightstudyblr #itshannyb #moonshinestudies #filipino studyblr

[one-time-i-dreamt]

#JUNKTERRORBILL please sign the petition

#not a dream #philippines #junkterrorbill

[muchymozzarella]

A stunning photo showing Filipinos practicing social distancing during a protest to #JunkTerrorBill #JunkTerrorBillNow 

Because Filipinos aren't undisciplined. They simply know what rules protect them and what do not.

Also shown: Protesters kneeling in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. 

MORE PHOTOS AND SOURCE CAN BE FOUND IN THE REBLOG BECAUSE TUMBLR HIDES POSTS WITH LINKS. If you have Facebook, share the original post there, which has more amazing photos of the protest. 

#junkterrorbill #junkterrorbillnow #junk terror bill #black lives matter #philippines #covidー19 #covid19 #covid-19

[thewhizzyhead]

OKAY BITCHES LISTEN UP as you can probably see my dear country happens to be trending rn and if you look at the tag you'll mostly see vacationy stuff and beautiful beaches! Well ERASE THAT CAUSE I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT SUMMER AINT THE REASON WHY THE TAG IS TRENDING. There is so much bullshit happening here in the Philippines and it can all be summarized to some dick trying to establish a dictatorship here by proclaiming the martial-law-without-a-label that is the Anti-Terrorism Bill. With this bill, the police are allowed to arrest without warrants on the basis of suspicion so basically if you're a filipino and you criticize the president on social media or in rallies YOU CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT WARRANTS AND IT WILL BE LEGAL and this infringes on Section 4 of our Bill of Rights which is our Right to Freedom of Speech. There are other laws that this bill directly violates but all in all the safety and lives of many Filipinos will be endangered. Check the hashtag #JunkTerrorBill to find out more and help spread the news. Things are definitely not as happy go lucky as the tumblr trend algorithm portrays.

#you bet your ass i'll be protesting here and on other social media sites #philippines #philippines stuff #oustduterte #junkterrorbill #oustdutertenow

[beameized]

#JunkTerrorBill: On a Bill that impedes the right of the Filipino People

On May 29, the Philippine Congress approved the senate version of the the Terror Bill which posses as a major threat to freedom of speech, especially during this times when dissent in media platforms is becoming a trend for the modern-day Filipino.

(Credits to College Editors Guild of the Philippines, CEGP)

Now, you might think that this bill just happened to come around but the timing is all too convinient. The reason why dissent is rising among the masses is because the executive branch of the government has frankly done a piss poor job at handling the Pandemic. They have continued to keep us quarantined, with only those considered essential businesses allowed to remain for months. It is only now in June that they have allowed people to work as long as they keep at a skeletal system. The main problem comes down to the fact that the government has yet to implement mass testing and even contract tracing for the matter, making the quanratine lose all meaning in the first place. To add up to all this, the administration continues to accumulate debt to “fight the pandemic” but claim they do not have the budget for mass testing. 

And to make matters worse, the head of the administration decides to fight a virus the only way he’s been fighting things, with machismo and guns. There have been cases where the police overstepped their bounds under the banner of ‘keeping the quarantine safe’ wherein they broke into a private residential building and also a homeless shelter because these places allegedly did not follow quarantine protocols. There was also a case of a soldier killing a veteran having an episode despite the residents of the area shouting he had PTSD and to leave him be. We cannot also discount the rapid increase of the Extrajudicial Killings fueled by the executive’s drug war that pretty much ramped  up police brutality in the Philippines by quite a lot.

Now, this bill is giving them more power to by-pass the Judiciary which is the only thing keeping them in check. As per Rappler: “ the bill would allow the Anti-Terror Council (ATC), made up of top cabinet officials, to do functions otherwise reserved for courts, like ordering the arrests of people it has designated to be terrorists.” 

Here are some as cited by CEGP. Below are some of the sections of Bill 1083, aka Terror Bill, although it feels rather more approriate to be called Martial Law 2.0. Below are some of the questionable provisions in the bill.

These two provisions are quite questionable as their vagueness could allow tagging of dissenters as terrorists. The head of the executive branch is actually quite fond of using mixed words and blurring the lines between dissenters who only criticize in hopes of improvement of the system as opposed to terrorists who seek to destroy it. This only adds oil to the fire, really.

Here we see that included in the wiring tapping are those individuals accused solely upon mere suspicion that would allow the police to invade our privacy just because we criticized the government a little too much more than they like. Now, there have been restrictions here either like between lawyers and clients or doctors and patients but this still stands that this is an invation of privacy,

Now Sec. 29. Detention Without Judicial Warrant of Arrest that takes the cake out of them all. Persons again tagged as terrorists by the ATC under mere suspicion can be detained for up to 24 days without a warrant, which is the first line of defense you have against a police violating your human rights. Although, if you do look up the entire provision, included is a follow up action of reporting to a court Judge “immediately”, there lacks a specific timeframe around the word “immediately” that again could allow the police advantage via vaugeness of this bill in their favor. 

The purpose of this bill is so obvious that National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers chair Neri Colmenares even spoke up, stating that “ This isn't really to go after the Abu Sayyaf or terrorists, or whoever they call as terrorists... I think the reason they actually need this bill is for the dissenters, the opposition.” (translated from Tagalog).

Save the voice of the Filipinos. Do not let them change the narrative. Hold the government accountable for their lapses. Dissent is not terrorism. Dissent is duty. #JunkTerrorBill

(Since tumblr eats up links, links will be provided with with a reblog. Included there is a petition to junk this bill. Please sign!)

#junkterrorbill #philippines #junk terror bill #police brutality #police abuse #pilipinas #ph

[appleflavoredkitkats]

so, the philippines is trending but there aren't really major posts that tell people what to do with it. here's what you can do to help:

1. reblog posts.

2. sign this petition.

3. EMAIL PROTESTS. this is the main thing that is proven to be most effective. i prefer doing this over the petition because petitions have a lower chance of working. what you can do is email our government anoymously about junking the terror bill and the instructions and templates for the email are all here.

please spread this around. this anti terror bill is just a way for them to implement martial law without saying its name. the first time martial law was implemented, thousands of people were tortured and murdered for being activists. this bill is forcing us to be silent, forcing us to stop criticizing everything bad our government has done. we desperately need your help because i cannot emphasize enough how apolitical majority of the families here are. we need your help.

#philippines #politics #oust duterte #junkterrorbill #very tellings that majority of people protesting online are gen z kids #it's scary to think that literally every adult doesn't care about our human rights until itd be too late

[ano-po]

What will happen to us?

From this video by Kurzgesart.

They explained that Anti-terrorism bills all-over Europe only destroyed the liberty of non-violent civilian citizens, creating terror, violence, and civilian deaths. The police themselves were doing the terrorisms to their own countrymen, which only made their country more prone to civilian danger, totally undermining the cause of anti-terrorism bills. It happened last decade and reforms were already done. We should learn from examples.

They also explained why war on drugs is a destructive, counterproductive and old-fashioned way to solve drug addiction. If people up there knew research, they would have found a better solution that Switzerland had done back in the 1980s.

Also, if you kids want to peacefully junk terror bill, stay respectful. You know how adults react when you agitate them. They turn to corporeal punishment. Please stay peaceful. Don't bombard government sites with more violence. Show them you are worth the trust. Don't mention names. Especially of the Executive branch, as they have not decided yet. Say you are disappointed with the legislative, and hoping the executive will do better. Be passive-agressive. Be peaceful.

Just inform, educate, advise. And be professional while doing so.

I'll tell you this, just post links of professional scientific journals about the topic. Post intellectual screenshots of impactful sentences. (and make sure they are not biased click-baiting video essays. You have to stay professional.) Do not start toxic fights on twitter or facebook. You will not win against idiots. Stay calm, stay chill, fight smiling.

#philippines #terror bill #junk #junkterrorbill #no to violence

[yukheistics]

hello! please spread the word and help the filipino community out on junking the anti-terror bill. if this bill gets passed, our basic human right to freedom of speech gets taken away. so, please, if possible, email them. and refrain from using personal accounts as well.

#junkterrorbill #JUNKTERRORBILLNOW #philippines

[h-doodles]

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#philippines #ANYWAYS CHECK Y'ALL'S FB AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES I AM NOT JOKING #THEY ARE!! FUCKING DOING THIS #junkterrorbill #oustduterte

[slnnohan]

please check my rereblog in the notes for the twitter thread w more info

+ please reblog if you can

#junkterrorbill #philippines #this may have been posted already but i havent seen it #so im placing it here #psa #important #boss.txt

[mark-tuan-and-jinyoung-lover]

THE PHILIPPINES IS ABOUT TO LOSE THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRIVACY.

The president has signed an unconstitutional bill that allows authorities to accuse anyone of terrorism with or without evidence or a warrant.

Please use the hashtag #JunkTerrorBill and spread awareness about this extremely troubling issue that the people of Philippines are currently facing at the moment.

#junkterrorbill

[elementarymydear]

Please help the Philippines. This is for everyone seeing this right now, especially to non-Filipinos.

There is a bill called “The Anti-Terrorism Bill” which gives law enforcement agents and military personnel to be able to arrest anyone suspicious without any warrant. This bill can be abused and used to target anyone who is giving criticism about the government, the military, the police, etc.

Imagine getting arrested for posting a meme. That’s a possibility if this bill gets approved by the president. The thing is, the president just made the bill urgent. He wants this bill to be made into a law. Doing so will silence the Filipinos.

So please please help us. Especially those out of the country since there’s no chance that you will be arrested.

I will post some pictures for more information including how to help us.

#philippines #anti terror bill #junk terror bill #oustduterte #junkterrorbill

[tired-of-living-life]

And in my own fucking country wow.

Anti-terrorist bill?

Are you fucking serious rn?

Out of all the times right now?? Srsly?

If the police have suspicions over you they can arrest you without warrant. Get detained to up to 24 days just because you’re suspected to be a terrorist??

What the actual fuck.

What has gotten into this so called “more fun in the Philippines” country?? Because i tell you now. It is not fucking fun here.

What kind of unacceptable bill is this!

So what anyone “suspected” to be a terrorist and the definition of terrorist for the government is if people join rallies and donate to non state recognized oragnizations AND MORE!

Why tf is the governement obstructing our freedom of speech??

We’re not allowed to rally? Wtf. What if we are rallying for a good cause huh? To make everybody hear our voices and to fight for what’s right?

Will the government suspect us of being terrorists?

Well they will now. It’s just absolute shit what the world and my country has come into.

This bill causes flagrant violations to our human rights.

We’re giving power to these police officers who of course have their own set of bigotries.

And that there is the resume button of the collapse of this economy.

What the fuck.

So what now being an outspoken activist gives out the suspicion of being a terrorist?

Fucking bullshit.

#JunkTerrorBill #anti-terrorism bill #anti-terrorismbill #Philippines #injustice #stupid #angry #humanrights #violationsofhumanrights #whereisourfreedomofspeech #tired #exhausted #fuckedup #crazy #bullshit #rage #notoanti-terrorismbill #politics

[thewhizzyhead]

TO THE FILIPINO SIDE OF TUMBLR REMEMBER THESE NAMES:

REMEMBER THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS OF THE BILL THAT IS DIRECTLY VIOLATING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM.

#FUCK THEM #oustduterte #philippines #philippines stuff #junkterrorbill

[beameized]

#FreePiston6: 6 Jeepney Drivers & piston members jailed on June 2. Please help!

Now, the idea of the Philippine Jeepney ‘Dyipni’ might be foreign to you but they prove to be an essential form of transport for the Filipino. After WW2, Filipinos repurposed the Jeepneys used in war to be forms of transport we use today.

(Here is a sample of a Jeepney from wikipedia) Jeepneys are essential to us. They are cheaper than other forms of transport and many Filipinos use them are their mode of transport. Although, the Department of Transport has already talked about the banning of Old Jeepneys that did not meet their criteria back in 2019 to be implemented in July 1, 2020, the setting now is very different as we face the pandemic and many of the Jeepney drivers haven’t the time to get ready for the phase out as we have been stuck in Quarantine for months now. It is noteworthy to mention that the Philippine transport system has been a big mess as too many people are in need of transport but the transport allowed into operation is just too little. This only pushes for further need for the Kings of the Raod to serve the people yet again.

( NO RIDE. Passengers returning to work wait for augmentation buses along Commonwealth Avenue Quezon City on June 1, 2020, the first day of the General Community Quarantine in NCR. Photo by Darren Langit/Rappler)

( METRO MANILA’S GCQ DAY ONE: As always, ordinary folks get the raw deal. PHOTO/ Gab Pabico Lalu)

*Sources to follow in a reblog because tumblr apparently flushes out posts with links in them

#philippines #masstestingnow #junkterrorbill #freepiston6

[appleflavoredkitkats]

if y'all can support posts about donations to bailing funds in the US, can you please spread this around as well? protesters from the university of the philippines cebu were arrested for protesting against the anti-terror bill (info in pinned post) and six jeepney drivers were arrested for protesting to get their jobs back (info also in pinned).

*important note: if you donate to the jeepney drivers via bank transfer, please note it's about #FreePiston6 or freeing the piston six.

please spread this around!!

#philippines #politics #junk terror bill #junkterrorbill #anti-terror bill