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
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