#ferdinand marcos sr

[themagical1sa]

Earth, Wind and Fire: 🎶 Do you remember the 21st night of September? 🎶

Me, thinking about the Marcosian martial law era: Yes. Yes, I do. It would be criminal to forget about it.

#september 21 #marcos #ferdinand marcos #ferdinand marcos sr #martial law #philippines #philippine history

[aphroditesknife]

Today marks the 51st anniversary of the enactment of US-backed Martial Law in the Philippines by the late president/dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. One of the darkest days in the history of the country and spanning for about a decade, many human rights violations, killings, tortures, enforced disappearances, military and police abuse of power, economic downfall, environmental damages, famine, media blackout (except for those approved of the regime), and overall corruption. All for the so called "fight against communist insurgency." The Marcos family and their allies basically lived like royalites while the Filipino people suffered.

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. served as the 10th president of the Philippines for 20 years from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial law for nine years from 1972 until 1981 but kept most of his martial law powers until he was deposed in 1986. Under his regime, violence was used to enforce civil control over the citizens of the Philippines, resulting in thousands of documented cases of human rights violations.

But many people to this day continue to refer to this time as the "Golden Age" of the country, that life was good for "law abiding citizens." Here are some numbers that debunks this popular myth.

Data from the image:

Sept. 21, 1972: Date of Proclamation No. 1081 placing the Philippines under martial law.

49: Persons from the Greater Manila Area immediately arrested on Sept. 22, 1972, by the military, among them three senators, three congressmen, two provincial governors, four delegates to the Constitutional Convention and eight newsmen. First on the list was opposition senator and main political rival Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.

Sept. 23, 1972: Press Secretary Francisco Tatad announces the imposition of martial law and reads the Marcos proclamation in a nationwide televised broadcast. Marcos himself went on air at 7 p.m. to formally announce the proclamation

12-4 a.m. – Curfew was put in place

Jan. 17, 1981: Marcos signs Proclamation No. 2045 lifting the implementation of martial law ahead of the first papal visit of Pope John Paul II in February.

107,240: Primary victims of human rights violations during martial law

70,000 people arrested, mostly arbitrarily without warrants of arrests*

34,000 people tortured*

3,240 killed by the military and the police*

*Amnesty International

464: Closed media outlets after declaration of martial law

$683 million: Worth of Marcos assets in various Swiss banks declared as ill-gotten based on a July 2003 the Supreme Court ruling

$5-10 billion: Estimated alleged ill-gotten wealth plundered by the Marcoses during two decades in Malacañang

6,281: Number of Marcos laws from September 1972 to February 1986

2,036 presidential decrees

61 general orders

1,093 executive orders

1,409 proclamations and other issuances

1,525 letters of instructions

157 letters of implementation

Info from image:

Military Power

By the time martial law was in effect, the Philippine Army had an estimated strength of 17,600; the Philippine Navy with 8,000; Philippine Air Force with 9,000; and the Philippine Constabulary with 25,500.

Info from images:

Poverty

Poverty worsened over the course of the Marcos era. Whereas about 4 out of 10 families were poor before Marcos took office, 6 out of 10 families were poor by the end of his rule.

Moreover, as the graph on the left shows, this is a consistent trend across the different regions of the nation, with some regions reaching as high a rate as 7 out of 10 families below the poverty line. Only two regions saw a marginal decrease in the number of poor families: the Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley.

Daily wages of Filipino agricultural workers declined by about 30%, such that if a farmer earned Php 42 per day in 1972, he would only be earning about Php 30 in 1986. The wages of farmers even went as low as nearly half of the pre-Marcos values in 1974, right after the declaration of Martial Law (middle graph).

On the other hand, for skilled and unskilled workers in urban areas, the graph on the right shows the change in their wages from pre-Marcos to EDSA values. Skilled workers are workers with some special knowledge or skill, often having gone to college or technical school; unskilled workers are workers without this level of training.

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Deforestation

In addition to factors relating to the domestic economy, another way of assessing the Marcos regime is through its impacts on the nation’s natural resources and the environment. The graph specifically gives us an idea about how Marcos’s policies affected the country’s forest cover over the course of about 20 years.

Supposedly, about 90% of the Philippines’ 18.7 million hectares of uplands, including more than 11 million hectares officially classified as timberlands, is publicly owned. In practice, fewer than 200 individuals controlled a large fraction of the country’s forests.

In pursuit of economic gains, Marcos and his cronies’ uncontrolled exportation of timber led to a drastic reduction in forest cover. This cascades into dire environmental impacts including flooding, landslides, and even the worldwide phenomenon of global warming.

I could add more to this post, but that would be way too long.

To this day, the Marcos family, their allies, and supporters, paid or not, continue to deny these facts and claim that the Marcos family were good for the Filipino people and the country.

We must continue to remind the people of this dark time in the history, to not let history be erased and be replaced with lies, to remember the sacrifices made by the victims of Martial Law and their families, and to not let history repeat itself.

Never Forget!

Never Again!

sources:

https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/649814-martial-law-by-the-numbers?page=6

https://martiallawmuseum.ph/magaral/martial-law-in-data/

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1167808/fast-facts-the-marcos-martial-law-regime

The Martial Law Museum and the Bantayog ng mga Bayani sites are good places to start reading more about this.

#Feel free to add more to this post bc i know theres way more #martial law #martial law anniversary #marcos #ferdinand marcos sr #philippines #philippine politics #bbm #bongbong marcos #ph politics #ph #ph history #history #politics #human rights #environment #historical revisionism #revisionism

[elfilibusterismo]

From the 1969 elections (which demonstrated the porosity of cinematic and political bombas), to the First Quarter Storm (which placed the country’s youth at the center of a moral-cum-political panic), to the Dovie Beams scandal (which exposed the father of the national family as a philanderer), the intimacy governing Marcos’s national family was exposed as a mirage. The ideal of a privatized sexual culture, so dear to the U.S. notion of intimacy, was just impossible to sustain, given the blatant violations of intimacy norms in those pseudo-events. To hold on to his role as Malakas, Marcos would have to reestablish the sense of rightness and normalcy—in short, the heteronormativity—conceptually embodied in the national family. And here, heteronormativity is more than ideology or prejudice; it is the very index of a disciplined social order. Marcos’s campaign to clean up the cinema asserts a “national heterosexuality,” which Berlant and Warner describe as “the mechanism by which a core national culture can be imagined as a sanitized space of sentimental feeling and immaculate behavior, a space for pure citizenship.” Such a space of pure citizenship is secured by the spectacular demonization of any represented sex. When martial law was declared, Marcos’s version of “national sexuality” was more strongly enforced. With the heavy hand of the law, the dictator made the privatization of sex (and the sexualization of private life) an important feature of his regime’s national symbolic, whereby the body and subjectivity of the citizen was to be strictly disciplined as a precondition to entry into the political sphere.

— Talitha Espiritu, Passionate Revolutions: The Media and the Rise and Fall of the Marcos Regime

#my post #pilipinas #ferdinand marcos sr #philippine history #fave #on sex and sexuality

[mariacallous]

When Rodrigo Duterte left the Philippine presidency and returned to private life in 2022, public life seemed suddenly quiet. Duterte’s brash statements, late-night rants, and off-the-cuff threats directed at his enemies were replaced with the caution of his successor—and then ally—the mild-mannered President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

The two remained uneasy political allies, however, until a rally in January during which Duterte called Marcos a “drug addict” and suggested the idea of a military coup to unseat the president. The next week, Duterte called for the independence of his home region of Mindanao through a signature-gathering campaign.

Marcos has responded with relative calm. He quipped that Duterte’s drug accusations could result from a dependence on fentanyl, which the former president admitted in 2016 to using after a motorcycle accident. Marcos’s national security advisor, meanwhile, has said that any attempt at secession by Mindanao—an idea widely dismissed as unrealistic bluster—would be met with force.

It was a spectacular break that surprised many in the Philippines. Marcos ran in 2022 on a joint ticket with Duterte’s daughter, Sara Duterte-Carpio, and won in a landslide; Duterte-Carpio is now the vice president. Both president and vice president have said they remain aligned. But the elder Duterte has publicly lamented that his daughter didn’t run for the presidency, and he called Marcos “weak” and a “spoiled child” prior to his inauguration.

Marcos has also reoriented Manila away from Duterte’s policy of seeking closer ties with Beijing, instead reaffirming the deep alliance with Washington that solidified during the rule of his father, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

The split between Marcos and Duterte also reverberated in Washington and Beijing, both of which “are watching the developments closely,” said Jeffrey Ordaniel, an assistant professor of international security studies at Tokyo International University and the director for maritime security at Pacific Forum International. “The different approaches and convictions of [Marcos and Duterte] have a real impact on their own foreign policy agenda.”

The family feud is, on the surface, rooted in Marcos’s attempts to change the Philippine Constitution, which was ratified in 1987 after his father was removed from power. Marcos has said that he wants to ease constitutional restrictions on foreign investment.

But Duterte has accused the president of a gambit to consolidate power. Marcos and his allies want to switch the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system, where a prime minister is chosen by the congressional majority. This could scuttle plans for Duterte-Carpio to run for president in 2028, when Marcos will be term-limited from running.

Duterte-Carpio’s popularity stems largely from that of her father, who broke a dynastic cycle by winning the presidency as an outsider in 2016. The elder Duterte, who is also term-limited and cannot run again in 2028, now seeks to leave behind his own familial legacy. While Duterte-Carpio appears loyal to her father, she has also forged her own political identity, purging loyalists to her father when she served as the mayor of Davao and allying closely with Imee Marcos, the current president’s sister.

Duterte also fears an ongoing investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into his deadly “war on drugs,” which rights groups say has killed up to 30,000 people since 2016. In recent months, Marcos has wavered on whether Manila will cooperate with investigators or protect Duterte, should the ICC issue an arrest warrant.

“It is [in] Duterte’s personal interest to evade any form of accountability that is driving the feud,” Ordaniel said. “The policy disagreements he has with the current government are secondary considerations.”

The Philippines is not a member of the ICC since Duterte withdrew the country in 2019. But while Marcos recently said his government would not “lift a finger” to help the ICC, he also said its investigators are welcome to enter the Philippines “as ordinary people,” and a former senator claimed that the ICC has already visited and conducted an “initial investigation.”

The feud has kept the looming ICC probe in the public consciousness, and Marcos and his allies “have not done much to de-emphasize” it, said Herman Kraft, an assistant professor of political science at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

“It’s a very passive-aggressive approach to dealing with Duterte,” Kraft added.

This has been largely effective in keeping the former leader on the back foot. His allies have seized on simmering rumors—spread mostly by retired military generals as well as Duterte himself—of dissent among Duterte loyalists within the military.

But it’s unclear how much support Duterte really has within the military, which remained loyal to the United States even during his presidency and frequently expressed ire at his Beijing-friendly policies. Marcos’s pivot toward Washington “is clearly a positive point with the military,” Kraft said, while Duterte’s “more outlandish proclamations”—floating coup attempts and the secession of Mindanao—“have struck a wrong chord.”

As president, Duterte pulled the Philippines out of a long-standing defense pact with the United States in 2020, only to reverse his decision a year later. He also pursued trade and investment deals with China, but these policies landed with a thud among a public angry with Beijing’s repeated incursions into Philippine waters in the disputed South China Sea.

The Duterte administration was “really giving China the benefit of the doubt” on the South China Sea dispute, giving officials “opportunities to compromise and adhere to international law without losing face,” Ordaniel said, adding, “Unfortunately, China never really showed any willingness to compromise.” Many investment pledges, such as a China-funded railway in Mindanao, also stalled.

Washington, meanwhile, has expanded joint training exercises and weapons transfers to the Philippine military, and it has repeatedly stated its support for Philippine claims in maritime disputes with China.

“Ultimately, I think the Americans are presenting a more attractive proposition,” Ordaniel said.

China could still use a Duterte-Marcos feud for its own purposes. In the northern Philippine province of Cagayan—where the United States has an agreement to use two military bases, both in close proximity to the Taiwan Strait—it has sent delegations to meet the governor, a Duterte ally, and has hosted him in China twice in the past nine months.

“The U.S. has more of an advantage with government institutions that deal with security and foreign policy,” Kraft said. “But China’s economic reach gives it influence over institutions in economic areas and, more strategically, in local government units.”

Domestically, the feud has eroded the already limited presence of the political opposition, such as the Liberal Party of former Vice President Leni Robredo and former Sen. Leila de Lima, a Duterte critic who was jailed for six years on drug charges widely seen as frivolous. Marcos has abandoned Duterte’s relentless attacks on opposition figures such as de Lima and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, but he hasn’t made strident efforts to undo the popular aspects of Duterte’s legacy—for instance, by prosecuting perpetrators of Duterte’s drug war.

Instead, the country has calcified into two camps—Duterte and Marcos—leaving progressive and liberal Filipinos struggling to know where to turn. Some have become disengaged. Others, however, would like to see a final blow dealt to the Dutertes, eliminating their violent illiberalism and their friendliness to China from the political stage.

“It’s a no-brainer” to support Marcos, said Tony La Viña, the associate director of climate policy and international relations for Manila Observatory. A Duterte takeover would alienate the country and its military from the United States, he said, while also empowering the Dutertes to enact revenge.

“We can’t afford to let Duterte win, because he doesn’t care about human rights,” he said. “If he wins against Marcos, he will then go after the opposition.”

[thespoliarium]

EDSA, 38 Years After

On this day in 1986, 38 years ago, the victory belonged to the masses, as they toppled over the dictator that is Ferdinand Marcos Sr. 21 years after his presidency, and, almost 14 years after the declaration of the Martial Law, the people have had enough of his cruelty!

Considered a "bloodless revolution," not much violence went on among the masses as they unite and fight against the regime.

And so the winner is a woman! Corazon "Cory" Aquino becomes the next president (and the first female president) of the Philippines! She is the spouse of Benigno Aquino Jr., or Ninoy, who perished under an assassination in 1983. TIME Magazine named her Woman of The Year in 1986!

What's with the L? There are many symbols that came with the revolution. The L hand symbol is a sign for "Laban," meaning "Fight" in Filipino. Sadly, this has been desecrated by people who uses L as "Loser."

And why yellow? his is because of the presence of yellow ribbons in the revolution, a reference to the song "Tie A Yellow Ribbon." This symbol, too, has been desecrated by Israel to play the victim game.

This song has also been the anthem of the revolution! I cannot find the original version but here's one of the most famous renditions.

I feel like I can never do my explanations for this event any justice, but it's always dear to my heart. Whenever I get sick and tired of fighting for this country due to corruption, my motivation are the people who fought for our freedom from the cruel Marcos regime.

And with Marcos' son in power, we have to make stronger reinforcements. We must prevent the repetition of the cruelty from his father's rule. Laban!

#history #philippines #philippine history #edsa #edsa revolution #1986 #corazon aquino #cory aquino #revolution #marcos regime #ferdinand marcos #Spotify

[jbcabret]

Today marks the 51st anniversary of the Declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines.

On 21 September 1972, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. signed a proclamation placing the entire country under martial law amidst local tensions caused by the failures of his administration. He used the growing numbers of leftist, national democratic organizations in Luzon and Mindanao as a justification for enacting martial law with the support of the United States, all to extend his term and to appease imperialist nations.

The Marcos regime first came for the student protesters, leftist politicians, educators, Mindanaoan Muslims, and religious workers. Then the state came for journalists, workers, and farmers. Martial law under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos led to >70,000 incarcerations, >3,500 extrajudicial killings, >35,000 tortures, and >900 enforced disappearances.

I am with my brave predecessors, the teachers and the students, who stood against the tyranny of the fascist Marcos regime. I am with them when I say, "I WILL NEVER FORGET! NEVER AGAIN!"

#never forget #never again #marcos regime #martial law #philippines

[rayjideguia]

On October 11, 2014, Jennifer Laude, a Filipino trans woman, was killed by US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton, whose presence in Zambales was made possible by the Visiting Forces Agreement. 

In September 2020, then President Rodrigo Duterte, known for his misogyny and whose regime was marked by extrajudicial killings from his drug war and anti-communist crusade, granted Pemberton absolute pardon, cutting short his time served by four years. Months prior in the same year, during the height of the pandemic, the Congress railroaded the passing of the anti-terrorism bill amidst rampant red-tagging of activists and dissidents; LGBTQIA+ protesters were arrested, detained, and harassed by police. 

Under the current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the largest Balikatan Exercise took place in 2023, a military exercise that was bolstered by counterterrorism training since the War on Terror campaign by the US. His father, former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., serving as the blueprint of violence and repression for Duterte, formalized the export of Filipino labor through the 1974 Labor Code in an attempt to stimulate the struggling economy, resulting in the human trafficking of Filipinos to this day.

This is the political milieu that informs the narrative of “Balikbayan. Through the protagonist Stella, a trans woman, whose motivation is to find her missing sister Katrina, supposedly teaching in Texas but ended up as a victim of tokhang in the Philippines eleven years later, the play tackles the entanglements of the US War on Drugs and Terror, neoliberalism, and extrajudicial killings under the Duterte regime, and how women, both trans and cis, are subjugated and dehumanized by the same system.

Like our page and save the date! 

April 13, 2024, 7 PM @ IGB Gallery, UP Diliman 

#Balikbayan #Balikbayan2024

#theatre #jennifer laude #US imperialism #balikbayan #writing #dramaturgy

[rinascence]

If you don't know what's going on the in the Philippines, the short answer is that our elections happened on May 9, 2022 and the results are an embarrassment to our history and we, as a country, are fucked. Currently in the lead, based on the unofficial and partial results of our commission on elections (COMELEC), is the son of a dictator we ousted in 1986, whose family has yet to payback the BILLIONS they owe the people and apologies for literal YEARS WORTH of crimes against humanity. Instead, they gave history revisionism through TikTok and fake news to the masses, manipulating voters to think the years of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. were the best in the Philippines, when it was anything but. Now, his son Ferdinand "Bong Bong" Marcos Jr. (BBM) is being pushed into power when he has NO DEGREE, NO CREDENTIALS, AND HAS MULTIPLE CASES OF TAX EVASION, and that is just the tip of the iceberg for this family of thieves and plunderers. According to COMELEC's partial and unofficial results, BBM's winning over Leni Robredo, the current Vice President of the country, who has an amazing track record as VP for 6 years, an ACTUAL POST-GRAD DEGREE, and is an attorney.

I refuse to accept this result, not because Leni is my candidate, but because there have been multiple reports and evidence of around 1,800+ Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) "malfunctioning", missing or corrupted SD cards, vote-buying for Marcos and his party, some reported attacks at voting precincts, and just mass electoral fraud. COMELEC has done jack shit about all these accusations, even claiming they've received no complaints about the election when we know that's a lie. COMELEC also dismissed several disqualification cases against BBM just today, May 10, 2022. They even transmitted the unofficial results at lightning speed last night when this has not happened before and we know for a fact people were still lined up at precincts waiting to vote, some even until 3 AM, because of the aforementioned broken machines and SD cards and they refused to leave their ballots in the care of staff at the precinct for fear of tampering with their ballots. They claim it's because they were "prepared", but it's clear to us that this election has been bought and rigged in their favor.

We have hundreds of youth protesting these unofficial results and they are already being labeled "militants", when all they carry are cardboard signs and their passion to give the country a leader it deserves, while the opposition is preemptively celebrating and trying to declare themselves the winner when the fight is far from over. We are still waiting for official results, but we are not satisfied with this election. They have failed to ensure it is fair. We will not acknowledge a presidency built upon lies, deceit, and oppression.

Fuck Marcos and, if need be, kitakits sa EDSA🌸

#philippines #philippine elections #philippine elections 2022 #presidential elections #halalan2022 #eleksyon 2022

[crimethinc]

On the 2022 Philippine Elections—Anarchist Strategies amid the Dying Liberal Status Quo

https://crimethinc.com/Philippines2022

Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. ruled the Philippines as a dictator from 1965 to 1986. On May 9, his son won the presidential election. The return of the Marcos dynasty has spread dismay among those who remember the reign of the senior Marcos. How could another Marcos come to power—and how does this relate to the electoral contests playing out in Colombia, Brazil, the US, and elsewhere?

[workersolidarity]

US ACQUIRES FOUR NEW MILITARY BASES IN THE PHILIPPINES: COMPLETES "ARC" SURROUNDING CHINA

The United States has concluded an agreement with the government of Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Son of Brutal Right-wing Dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.), acquiring access to four more Military bases from the government, securing US access to the South China Sea in the area surrounding Taiwan.

This move is intended to "stitch" the gap in the string of US Military Bases and Alliances surrounding China, stretching from South Korea and Japan in the North, to Australia in the South and now plugging the gap in The Philippines to the Southeast, reinforcing any potential offensive operations to take Taiwan should China decide to secure it's Island.

Both the US proxy Govt of The Philippines, as well as the US imperialists claim this acquisition isn't permanent. But as the BBC acknowledges, it "in part reverses the US departure from its former colony more than 30 years ago."

Also, the US has declared it will invest over $82 Million in supporting infrastructure for the new Bases. Quite an investment for a "temporary" posting.

You can learn more about it while trying to read between propaganda lines here:

This update is concerning to say the least. It means the US is aggressively pursuing its goal of containment of China through military and economic means: ie. sanctions regimes, cyber attacks, espionage and sabotage, support of terrorist groups in places like Pakistan, Myanmar and Thailand to terrorise pro-Chinese politicians and infrastructure projects, propaganda and information wars through the NED and other "NGOs", and then through more traditional means like Military encirclement and proxy govts.

So whom is a threat to whom exactly?

If the situation were reversed, if China were working overtime to undermine and attack the US economy while encircling the heartland with military bases, it is unthinkable that the situation would ever have been allowed to get to that point to begin with, at least without initiating a major military engagement.

That is what the US Imperialists are risking with their current project. They risk major military engagement with a nuclear armed Superpower.

They risk our lives in order to weaken China and to subjugate its People to the resource extraction and labor exploitation of US-Backed Transnational Corporations, whose profits don't even benefit the American People in any material way.

And they will continue to use imaginary Spy Balloons, distant territorial conflicts, and other propaganda to convince you that China is a threat to Americans in order to manufacture consent for war, likely in Taiwan next.

And for how long can Nuclear armed Superpowers be at war with each other before one side or the other begins to lose and decides it's facing an existential threat to its existence?

How long from there before nuclear weapons are used?

#us imperialism #colonialism #neocolonialism #western imperialism #capitalism #the war machine #us war machine #war machine #war on china #us news #socialist news #socialist politics #communism #socialism #marxism leninism #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #politics

[aphroditesknife]

As the anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law is approaching, Robin Padilla, a celebrity AND a Senator, wants September 21 declared as ‘Unsung Heroes Day’. The same day of the anniversary when former president/dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. imposed a USA-backed Martial Law, following years of corruption, human rights abuse, military and police power abuse, environmental damages, and economic decline. All of the under the guise of "fighting against communist insurgency"

Link to the article in the photo.

He is basically indirectly saying that Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was a hero for what happened in the country under his regime. While DIRECTLY saying in the article that the people who "fought against communist insurgency" were "heroes."

This is just one of the multiple attempts of erasing the darkest days of the Philippines, and pushing this false narrative that the Marcos family were heroes and victims.

Another attempt is the following, the DepEd, led by the Marcos ally and vice president of the Philippines Sara Duterte, proposed the removal of thw term "Diktadurang Marcos" (Dictator Marcos) from the curriculum.

Link for the article in the photo

excerpt from the article

MANILA, Philippines — An ecumenical student group recently expressed its opposition to the proposal of the Department of Education (DepEd) to remove the term “Diktadurang Marcos,” referring to former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., from the Grade 6 curriculum.

In an interview with Radio Veritas last Sept. 15, the Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP) said that disassociating the term “diktadura” (dictator) from the name of the former president would be distorting the impact of his regime in the country’s history.

“Christian youth are deeply disturbed by this curriculum change proposal to distort the grim reality of the Marcos dictatorship,” said SCMP national chairperson Kej Andres.

Altering textbook materials would be downplaying the events and effects of martial law, particularly on the thousands of lives that were lost and the number of people who suffered, the group continued.

We must not let these people in power erase the history and repeat the same dark days of the country.

Never forget! Never again!

Marcos was not a hero!

#martial law #martial law anniversary #september 21 #ferdinand marcos #ferdinand marcos sr #bongbong marcos #bbm #ferdinand marcos jr #sara duterte #duterte #marcos #dds #inday sara #inday sara duterte #human rights #human rights watch #communist #communism #acab #philippines #philippine history #ph history #history #ph #philippine politics #ph politics #politics #fake news #historical revisionism #revisionism

[purpleleemon]

I rarely post anything original (or political) on Tumblr, but this is one of those moments where I can't sit by.

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The people of the Philippines need international coverage now more than ever. We're at the risk of letting the son of a dictator sit at the president's seat. We're at the risk of another Ferdinand Marcos (Jr.; nicknamed BongBong Marcos/BBM) Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the dictator that declared Martial Law, which caused 3,000+ deaths, 34,000+ tortured (in so many different horrific ways), 70,000+ to be imprisoned, and hundreds of billions of pesos* to be plundered for their greed.

(Pesos = PH currency)

It would have been very different if the son acknowledged and denounced the crimes his father had done to our people. It would have been different if he paid his estate tax (203B afaik). But he hasn't. He refuses to acknowledge these things. And so we risk history revisionism. We can't allow our history to be changed to suit these people's desire.

The dictator has been dead many years already. But his mother still pulls the strings. His mother, Imelda Marcos, who has over 3,000+ pairs of expensive shoes, who so badly wanted to have an animal "oasis" that she had her husband's military force a village of 450+ families to leave so that she could use that land for the animals. (Which, by the way, they shouldn't even be there. Those animals were bought with a portion of the Marcos' ill-gotten wealth)

The Marcoses fled with their ill-gotten wealth when the people of the Philippines finally decided to fight back during the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986. They were exiled to Hawaii. They were permitted to return to the Philippines in 1991 by then-President Corazon Aquino so that they may face the charges being placed against them. Marcos Sr. died in 1989, before the family was permitted to return.

Imelda unsuccessfully ran for president a year after returning, but lost (thankfully). But her children BBM and Imee Marcos both won seats in the House of Representatives. Then later they would both win seats in the Senate. Bear in mind, neither of these children ever denounced their parents' evil doings. They always called for fake news.

And now, more than two decades later, we're at the risk of Marcos Jr. becoming president. The elections are being rigged as his sister, Imee, is the current Chairperson of COMELEC*. The appointees of COMELEC right now are all appointed by current President Rodrigo Duterte, whose daughter, Sara Duterte, is running for Vice President under the same camp as BBM. Yet another political dynasty.

(COMELEC = Commission of Elections)

They're apparently "done counting" over 80% of the votes when, oh-so-coincidentally, there are hundreds of voting machines that are apparently malfunctioning, so many missing/broken SD cards, and vote buying. Not to mention the hundreds of people in multiple precincts that still haven't even voted (I could be wrong as of now, since I'm posting this a day late)

As I type this, tens of thousands of my people prepare to march once again in protest against these rigged decisions. They're being red-tagged* as terrorists, even though people are peacefully walking, standing for what's right.

(Red-tagged = being identified/tagged and put under a terrorist watch-list)

Please. If you can, spread this message to as many places as you can. We're all still fighting so hard to prevent this from happening. We need the Leni Robredo-Kiko Pangilingan camp to win. They're the only ones who can keep these two from winning. We're desperate.

Please.

#unapologetic #I'm done being silent #This is my future #the future of all Filipinos at stake #Philippines don't make this mistake #please help #halalan 2022 #ph elections 2022 #letlenilead #lenikiko2022 #politics #philippines #ph 2022

[upismediacenter]

MC 2024: Statement on ML @ 51

REMEMBER, REMEMBER, THE 21ST OF SEPTEMBER.

Today marks the 51st year since the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. declared Martial Law, causing the country to experience one of its worst social, political, and economic disasters – marked by extrajudicial killings, human rights abuses, and suppression of mass media. We look back, not to celebrate, but to be reminded of our fellow Filipinos who dared to resist and sacrificed their lives for the freedom we have today.

The UPIS Media Center remains steadfast in condemning the grave injustices committed during Martial Law, especially with the current threats of historical distortion daring to erase the dictatorship’s true horrors. The recent attempt of the Department of Education to shift its curriculum’s term from “Diktadurang Marcos” to just “Diktadura” only proves how determined the Marcoses are to absolve themselves of their own crimes, to wash the blood off from their hands.

In pursuit of addressing these issues, the UPIS Media Center, as the official student publication of UP Integrated School, pledges to take part and urges everyone to actively campaign against the administration’s ongoing propaganda of revising our history books towards historical denialism and removing the accountability of the Marcoses during the time of the declaration of Martial Law.

With history outwardly on the verge of repeating itself, we cry out, louder than ever– “Never Again!” to state-sanctioned lies and deceitful indoctrination. If we forget, we lose.

ANG NAMULAT AY HINDI NA MULING PIPIKIT.

#NeverAgain #NeverForget #MarcosNotAHero #MarcosHitlerDiktadorTuta #NoToHistoricalDenialism

#NeverAgain #NeverForget #MarcosNotAHero #MarcosHitlerDiktadorTuta #NoToHistoricalDenialism

[bread-roses-and-chrome]

A Little History For You

Hi all! ^~^

Today, on the 25th of February, the Philippines celebrates the anniversary of the EDSA Revolution, often commemorated as the People Power Revolution; the series of mass demonstrations, strikes, and other activities that led to the deposition of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the Cold War dictator and American puppet responsible for the arrest, death, or disappearance of thousands of Filipinos on charges of, among others, dissidence, leftist sympathies, fighting for indigenous or Muslim rights, and criticism of the regime.

May the Filipino people always know that they have challenged tyranny before. May all peoples know it. May they fight for their rights as jealously as their ancestors fought for independence and freedom.

And may they know that there is still work to be done. That they may use that strength to challenge something further; the ruling class that still binds them, and did not hesitate to engage in its venal corruption and inequality only decades after the Revolution's end.

Do not deny those shortcomings. Fight like hell to destroy them. To some, the EDSA Revolution was not enough, and I damn well acknowledge that. But it proved something. Something that the Filipino people should always remember.

That they have challenged the despots before. And can do so again.

That the people, if united, can never be defeated.

The People Power Monument. Photo source.

#edsa revolution #philippines #antifascist #history #yes #that

[scara-meow-che]

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE PHILIPPINES.

my apolgies for using this account for such matters but as to what some accounts used to see in my blog, i've stated somewhere that i am a part of a student council from a state college in my country the Philippines hence why i made this poorly drafted post in a hurry.

currently, as the 2022 election ended, atrocities and electoral anomalies were found during the vote counting process and statisticians had shown their data that had shown these anomalies (refer to this link) the normal distribution of votes as shown on their data is an indication how the vote counting process depicts a rigged tally since the population/demographics in the Philippines are unevenly distributed (we are an archipelagic country consisting of 17 regions with some congested areas such as areas in metro manila)

adding to this, as a history major myself, i am baffled with the amount of historical revisionism and distortion rampantly happening and we, as students of history and historians ourselves, are ridiculed and ignored despite countless efforts of presenting narratives, books, documentaries and photos that shows what majority dub as the "golden era" of the Philippines—this is the tyranny of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. the 14-year rule of this dictator had thousands of filipinos killed, many are still unfound, human rights violation happened left and right, millions of debt were placed under our names, the democracy of the press and students actively participating in protests of this regime were illegally arrested against their own means and were tortured. once the filipinos had kicked this tyrant out of his seat during the EDSA PEOPLE POWER but the 2022 election had let the son's dictator be put into seat as the philippine president.

(if you wish to know more about martial law, i have this link that contains resources that can help)

this marked yet another year of our lives fighting for a just and transparent governance. the philippines is at it's peril. we have already made it into international headlines with the name of that dictator staining our identities.

this is not an issue of our moral integrity being bought by money in order to cope with the rampant poverty but this lies deeper with the miseducation of the people. the education system that we have are flawed, made to glorify the dictators and the corrupts. those who shares thw teuth and fights for our rights were killed, red-tagged, shunned off by textbooks and marked as terrorists.

please, spread the truth about our country and give comfort to any filipino mutual that you have. please spread awareness as to what is happening in our country because as much as my words pass by your timeline and reaches its end, a simple share can help those unaware of our situation. i can't stand not doing anything for my country, not everyone i know of are privileged enough to flourish after we suffer the consequences dictated by our distorted past.

please, comfort any filipino mutual that you have. by being emotiional about this, i have been out in the streets mobilizing and organizing campaigns to fight for a clean election and have been receiving dead threats here and there. it is fear inducing, yes, but what lies ahead of me if i stay quiet is a life without a future in a country i love so much.

bilang aktibong lider-estudyante, magkikita tayo sa lansangan para ipagpatuloy ang laban para sa bayan 🌸✨ hindi pa tayo tapos mga kazams 💕

if you wish to ask me questions about this topic, send me an ask!!

#PSA #philippines #halalan2022 #2022 election #philippine election #2022 philippine election #pls read!!! #pls read #i hope i managed to put all impt points here #i've been crying in anger #resentment just consumes me #it's just so devastating

[poached-egg-rookie]

PH Elections 2022

I have to post this. It has been a long night here in the Philippines. We're currently having our presidential elections, and the frontrunner (and expected to win by a landslide) is a former dictator's son, who lied about having an Oxford degree, allegedly a coke addict, with no strong record of achievement in public service, in his years as a congressman and a senator. Our vice presidential frontrunner is our outgoing President's daughter, like her running-mate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., Sara Duterte has questionable credentials. She is a lawyer facing a disbarment case, and once punched a sheriff for exercising the law. Both Marcos and the younger Duterte are backed by the outgoing administration of Rodrigo Duterte. Under the elder Duterte's leadership, the war on drugs happened. Under said "war on drugs" Duterte promised to eradicate illegal drugs, once and for all in the Philippines. He also promised to "end crime" in 3-6 months. He promised to "jetski" his way to protecting our seas from China. However, instead of going after giant cartels, his presidency claimed countless innocent lives, mostly members of the lower class, in Filipino, "mga miyembre ng laylayan," the poorest of the poor. (Read: Kian delos Santos). Under the Duterte administration, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.– who was toppled in a dramatic revolution in 1986–was buried in the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani (National Heroes' Cemetery). This act happened so brazen, so evil, like a thief in the night, just like how the Marcoses managed to escape the country on the eve of Feb. 25, 1986, the Filipino people were left aghast and deeply offended, betrayed. How can they bury a man–who pillaged and raped his country of its resources, stole $10B by the end of his regime, killed 3,000 people, tortured 34,000, silenced press freedom–in a plot where supposed heroes and veterans who have actually done good for their country? It's maddening. By allowing the Marcoses to bury their father in a heroes' cemetery, the Dutertes handed one of the last nails in the coffin to reinforce a Marcos comeback in the highest position in the country. This is not something that happened overnight. This was years of manipulation, fake news, gaslighting, and rebranding concocted by the Marcoses, with the help of Cambridge Analytica. Big tech like Facebook and Tiktok are complicit in this scheme by letting online trolls paid by the Marcoses parade online with their fake news and historical revisionism. Because of this plot, the Marcoses gained a massive following of misinformed folks who are mostly poor, with no proper access to education and information. What's even more heartbreaking is that the Philippines' education system has also failed in protecting its history because of inaccessibility and poverty caused by, guess what, corruption!

Hope is barely scraping by. We're calling this election rigged because of broken vote counting machines, rampant vote buying and illegal campaigning. Our Commission on Elections is headed by three Duterte appointees, and a former lawyer of younger Marcos. The official logistics partner in this year's election is a known ally of the outgoing president. The Senate's electoral committee is headed by Imee Marcos, the sister of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Falling behind Marcos' bid for presidency is our outgoing Vice President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo. Leni is a dream candidate, with a "fine record in public service and no taint of corruption." Leni led a massive pink revolution, earning support from the youth and the working class. She and her ally, Kiko Pangilinan who is vying for the VP seat, led thousands in provincial rallies, and close to a million people in their final meet last May 7. It's heartbreaking to see this come to this because we have the perfect candidates on paper and yet we are being robbed once again by the same people who brought this country to ruin.

I cry while I write this because this is how I watch my country fail my generation, the future generations, the poor, and the disadvantaged. Through Facebook memes and TikTok trolls who revel and praise a thief and liar as their president.

#philippines #politics #elections #government #i am beyond tired