LMK Iligan at Marawi City lalahok sa mga Pagkilos para sa Kalayaan laban sa Kurapsyon

Matapos ang desisyon ng mga kilusan at organisasyon sa Iligan at Marawi City na lalahok sa mga pagkilos sa iba't-ibang panig ng Pilipinas ngayong ika-12 ng Hunyo 2014 bilang pagpapakita ng pagkamuhi nito sa Kurapsyon at pagkilos upang maging malaya dito at sa pananamantala't kahirapan ay abala na ang lahat sa preparasyon at iba pang gawain tungo sa nasabing araw.

Dahil sa ang araw na ito ay ang pagdiriwang ng pamahalaan sa araw umano ng kalayaan mula sa dayuhang pananakop ay nais iparating ng mga progresibong grupo't mga mamamayan ang kanilang diskontento at mga panawagan sa mga kapwa mamamayan at sa mismong pamahalaan. Nakikita natin ito na litaw at walang esensyang kalayaan dahil mas nalugmok pa sa kawalan ang taumbayan sa pamamayagpag ng Kapitalistang Demokrasya na naghahari.

Batid ng lahat ang usad-pagong na imbestigasyon sa kasong bilyones na kurapsyon at tila ba namimili ng masasagasaan ang "tuwid na daan" ng administrasyong Noynoy Aquino (P-Noy), kaya ang sigaw ng mga kilusa't mamayan ay IKULONG na ang LAHAT na SANGKOT!

Ang Liga Ng Makabagong Kabataan ay makikiisa rin sa mga pagkilos na ito dala ang adyendang PALAYAIN ang SANGKATAUHAN at KALIKASAN mula sa KAPITALISMONG PAGHAHARI at PANDAYIN na ang EKOSOSYALISMONG BALANGKAS sa Ekonomiya, Politika at Kultura.

Panawagan lalo pa ng LMK na palayain ang hanay ng kabataan mula sa karahasan sa loob ng mga paaralan at sa pagsasapribado ng mga panlipunang serbisyo lalo na ang edukasyon, sa halip ay gawin itong prayoridad at taasan ng pundo.

Dagdag pa, nais ding ipanawagan ng LMK at mga kasamang kilusan na SUPORTAHAN ang Pakikibaka sa Sariling Pagpapasya ng Bangsamoro na hindi yuyurak sa Karapatan ng Mamamayang Lumad at Pilipino.

Hinihikayat natin ang lahat ng uring inaapi't manggagawa na lumahok sa mga pagkilos para sa Kalayaan mula sa Kahirapan, Kurapsyon at Pananamantala!

Ngayong Hunyo 12, 2014
Sa Iligan City Post Office
2.30 ng Hapon

KABATAAN, LUMABAN! MANINDIGAN! KUMILOS!

Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan
Iligan and Marawi City
lmkabataan@yahoo.com.ph
10 June 2014

STATEMENT ON the 116th Anniversary of Philippine Independence (LMK-MSU)

Greeting of JUSTPeace and Solidarity!

The Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan Marawi Chapter alongside other youth’s organization and movements all over Philippines commemorate the 116th Independence Day. Yet instead of joining the mainstream’s festive and extravagant celebration of today’s event, we are collective with the progressive movement’s call together the majority oppressed masses’ claim to seize and rekindle the true spirit of emancipation.

We are not a fully Independent nation- as no third world state is independent. Philippines has remained a puppet in a chain by the Imperialist US wherein the accumulation of economy, politics and military power are controlled and capitalized by Uncle Sam. Filipinos continue to stay at the periphery of human life. Filipinos are still part of international labor force exporting raw materials to other countries with minimum tariff, exploiting the natural resources by the persistent operation Multinational and transnational corporation, the prevalent commercialization and privatization of all social services (health, education, power, etc.), the continues operation of military intervention of US troops that lead to the formation of Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) that will aggravate the monopolization of US imperialist and will at stake the national security. The kind of capitalist democracy in the Philippine will always linger the backward development and to reverberate the light of continuing widespread marginalization, privatization, commercialization, bad governance, socioeconomic inequalities and injustices.

These harsh realities continue to unfold and persist in the administration of Aquino. The moral eclipse of the political system had brought the worsening situation of the Philippine government that added on the political patronage activity of the trapo’s. The continuing issue of budget cut and tuition fee increase under Pnoy and CHED in the public education is indication of abandonment and injustices of the Filipino youth. The government funding for public education at all levels has declined and in some cases plummeted, leaving students suffering in overcrowded classrooms, schools in dilapidated buildings. This is the result of ugly mechanisms that fuel capitalism in its onward quest to fall us all into a state of uttered barbarism.

We, therefore condemn this latent and manifesting bastardization at the expense of the Filipinos. We resent the policy to increase tuition and other fees as well as the budget cut in the state universities and colleges. We demand for transparency and accountability of the government! We demand for urgent action in the pork barrel scam and all forms of corruption! We demand to go out the US troops and all forms of imperialism. We demand for a better and just working condition for many graduates are prey victims of unemployment and underemployment. We are in one heart with other sectors in for the society which seek for affirmative response of their issues. We demand genuine respect of democracy! We demand true freedom!

KABATAAN! LUMABAN! MANINDIGAN! KUMILOS!

Liga ng Makabangong Kabataan (LMK) Marawi Chapter

LMK marches against corruption

June 12, 2014 the 116th anniversary of our independence --- our freedom from the colonizers. But in these 116 years, have we ever felt free or independent? FREEDOM is supposed to mean that we are free to do what we want (given that we also do not trample the freedom of others) and to be what we want. That is why we have the government on the first place, to ensure that each of us is provided the necessary things that makes us free. We gave them power to do that. But what is happening now is just the opposite. Scams and Corruption instead of education, internal political quarrels and continuous blaming within the city hall instead of housing for the typhoon victims. Politicking instead of ensuring the welfare of the workers. Due to unreasonable poverty we are not free even to live properly, an 8-hour labor for 60 pesos now where is the justice in that?

The Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan voices out the longstanding ills of those in authority and calls for change. This morning the LMK together with other groups marched on the center of Iligan for their cause. This afternoon in the Iligan Post Office at 2:30 pm a rally will be made and this time WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR VOICE!

8th Mindanao Summer Youth Peace Camp

 

ALYANSA NG KABATAANG MINDANAO PARA SA KAPAYAPAAN (AKMK)

 8^th Mindanao Summer Youth Peace Camp

Advancing an Inclusive and Peaceful Mindanao: 

Our Generation’s Responsibility

June 20-23, 2014

 Revisiting the History:

Looking back from the time the Alyansa ng Kabataang Mindanao para sa Kapayapaan (AKMK) was formally organized, the major pressing concern that echoed around the corners of Mindanao is the ongoing unrest and sporadic occurrence of armed confrontation between the government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that lead to the declaration of an All Out War. The collateral damages were so great that it further fueled the anti peoples sentiments among the inhabitants of Mindanao and its contiguous Islands without taking into account the other issues such as the continuous ecological destruction, development aggression, landlessness, and ill delivered social services that put in peril the situation of the marginalized majority of the Tri-People; the Bangsamoro, the Katawhang Lumad and the Mindanao Migrants.

The unanimous cry amongst the young sector of Mindanao was anchored primarily on the recognition of the very rights of the peoples’ taking into account the recognition to the Bangsamoro Struggle for their Right to Self Determination as inclusive to the struggles as well as to the other peoples’ Right to Self Determination.

History has unfolded, and finally the Bangsamoro are about to gain the sought after recognition of their decade old struggle that took its precedents from the century-old historical injustices that colored the historical consciousness of the people and subsequently reflected on the different programs and policies advanced by the National Government.

The Critical Support

The Alyansa ng Kabataang Mindanao para sa Kapayapaan has consistently stressed on the inclusivity in all aspects concerning the pursuit of long lasting justpeace in Mindanao, inclusivity in the sense that no other peoples’ right will be undermined in whatever initiative that would only cater the few. The alliance believes that only genuine grassroots involvement could realize and operationalize the sense of ownership in all processes.

Further, the Alliance believes in a sound balance that relates peoples’ action towards the harmony of all creations including the recognition to preserve and protect the environment for the future usage of the coming generation; that our environment is not for sale, and not for political bargaining.

The Peaceful Battle Cry

The upcoming 8^th Mindanao Summer Youth Peace Camp is anchored on revisiting the essence of what has long been campaigned by the Alliance for inclusive peace. The development of the peace process between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (GPH-MILF) opened up the opportunity for the Bangsamoro for self-governance. However, the onset of this pursuit left the tribes of Teduray Lambangian, Dulangan Manobo, Arumanen ne Menuvu, and T’Boli Indigenous Tribes question the future of their self governance as well, as they were subjected to be directly under the Bangsamoro Government. It is in this condition, that the entire membership of the alliance felt the need to address the valid struggle of the Indigenous peoples’ for recognition as well. The alliance believes that the deed of emancipating one people is all the more noble if it is inclusive in its purest sense. 

It is now or never. The young peoples of Mindanao want to make it a trend, as a popularized method of advancing the interest of all the tri-people of Mindanao. Let it be known that the Alyansa ng Kabataang Mindanao is for #InclusivePeace: Tara, Sama Ka.

 

Kalikasan at Sangkatauhan: Sentro ng Pagbabago

 5 Hulyo 2014



Sa kapanahunan ng World Environment Day ngayong araw (5 July 2014) ay ipinapahayag ng Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan ang pagbalikwas gaya rin noon sa balangkas ng Pamahalaang Aquino at ng pandaigdigang pang-ekonomiyang sistemang umiiral na mapang-wasak at mapang-hamak sa Kalikasan at Sangkatauhan.

Sa likod ng mga malawakang trahedyang kalikasan at kalamidad ay mas pinaiigting pa ng administrasyong Aquino ang panghihikayat ng mga korporasyong mamuhunan sa pagmimina at malawakang konbersyon sa gamit ng lupa at buong agrikultura.

Ipinapaabot rin ng LMK ang panawagang itigil na ang pagsasapribado sa likas na yaman at ng mundo.

Gawing sentro sa programa at balangkas ng lahat ng pamahalaan at mga kilusan ang kalikasan at sangkatauhan.

Bigyang katarungan ang mga biktima ng kalamidad sa pamamagitan ng agaran at responsableng pagtugon sa kanilang mga karapatan at kapakanan.

Mas pagtuunang pansin ang sustenable at organikong agrikultura na tutugon sa pangangailangan ng mga komunidad sa halip na ang interes ng mga Korporasyon.

Integrasyon at Pag-aaral sa buhay at kultura ng mga Katutubo at ng kanilang Sistema ng pamumuhay na mas pinapahalagahan ang kalikasan.

Sa mga kapwa namin kabataan, integrasyon sa masa sa kanayunan, kalunsuran at pagawaan ay malaking ambag sa naka-ugat nating angat na kamulatan.

Panghuli, tiyak na po na hindi kayang solusyonan ng Kapitalismo ang Krisis ng Kalikasan at Ekonomiya dahil sa sagad na katangian nitong labis-labis at ganid na akumulasyon ng kapital at tubo. Wala pong ibang tugon kundi Sosyalismo, EkoSosyalismo!

Ngayon ang Pagpapanday hanggang sa tayo ay magtagumpay!

Liga Ng Makabagong Kabataan
Mindanao, Pilipinas
lmkabataan@yahoo.com.ph

Teduray and Lambangian Youth Statement on the Bangsamoro

Gai. There will always be a time for everything.

And now is the time for us, the Teduray and Lambangian youth to take an equally-decisive stand  as our inherent right as indigenous peoples in building our socio-cultural, economic and political future in our fusaka inged or ancestral domain.

Photo Courtesy: http://tripeoplesjournal.blogspot.com

Today, we affirm our tribal title holders’ declaration in their open letter to His Excellency Benigno Simeon Aquino III on April 7, 2014 that with the guidance of our ancestors, they decided to do what is just and fair to us their children and our children in the future-“to carefully prepare the small space for our tribes to thrive as distinct peoples and contribute to the new tomorrow that waits for us in the Bangsamoro”.

We echo and strengthen their voices in our assertion for our ancestral domain where our young lives are connected to since we were born, cradled and lived the customs and traditions of our ancestors.

We reiterate their call to genuinely and properly implement the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) which forms the legal basis for our assertion of our rights in any proposition including  in the Bangsamoro Government.

Hence, we demand for the government to prioritize the immediate delineation of our ancestral domain where we can fully and freely practice our traditional justice and governance system based on our customs and traditions as is our right to self-determination as distinct peoples.

Furthermore, we emphasize our important and necessary role in all decision-making processes with regard to our socio-cultural, economic and political future.

Finally, we pay tribute to our ancestors, our elders and all those who incessantly struggle to pave the best future for us. 

Today, these assertions will not be taken for granted as we make these as our generation’s responsibility to our people and the generations that follow us.

Gai. There will come a time when we will be a “minority of the minority” no more: a time when we will stand together equally with our Moro and Migrant brothers and sisters in building a just and peaceful Mindanao.

Signed on this 4^th day of May 2014 during the 7^th Teduray, Lambangian Youth and Student Association Congress in Sitio Benuan, Brgy. Kuya, South Upi, Maguindanao.

Re-posted from: Tri-peoples Journal Blogspot