Copy & Paste: US-Sponsored Unrest Now Targets Philippines
Protests in the Philippines matching Indonesian/Nepali unrest are being led by a number of “civil society” groups and “church” organizations, headed primarily by Tindig Pilipinas, according to both Western and local Philippine media.
Tindig Pilipinas is part of INCITEGov which is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the International Republican Institute (IRI), a subsidiary of the NED.
Some might say the current government under President Marcos Jr. is already completely subservient to US demands – but in fact – the previous election he won, the opposing candidate of the “Liberal Party Philippines” Leni Robredo, was even worse.
As I have pointed out in the past – no matter how obedient any particular targeted nation might be – any disobedience or delay ends in coercion and even regime change with someone far worse.
The fact that now THREE protests have unfolded across Asia with matching flags/slogans/grievances reinforces the already overwhelming evidence the other 2 protests were likewise US-sponsored.
Just as US Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth warned in Singapore recently – the US is pivoting from Europe/Middle East back to Asia and it is bringing all of its meddling, interference, and war with it.
In the nation’s capital, participants are assembling in various locations in the early morning before they form two main branches: one including the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and marching to Rizal Park in Manila, and the other involving the Akbayan party list group and holding its main rally at the People Power Monument on Edsa.
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The rally in Manila dubbed “Baha sa Luneta: Aksyon Laban sa Korapsyon” is expected to start at 9 a.m. For this movement, the component groups call themselves the Taumbayan Ayaw sa Magnanakaw at Abusado Network Alliance, or Tama Na (Filipino for “enough”).
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No one gets away
Meanwhile, the “Trillion Peso March” set at 2 p.m. at the Edsa People Power Monument will be led by Tindig Pilipinas, Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines, Clergy for Good Governance, and other religious groups.
Half a century after his father declared martial law, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr is confronting his own crisis: a corruption scandal of dizzying scale, coup rumours in the air and tens of thousands of Filipinos preparing to march on the streets of Manila.
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At the heart of the domestic uproar are revelations of staggering corruption in flood control. For years, billions of pesos were funnelled into supposed projects that proved dangerously inadequate, or in some cases simply fictitious. Instead, recorded evidence has shown that the funds went to line the pockets of contractors, politicians and government officials.
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Civil society, student movements and the Catholic Church have since joined forces to coordinate mass demonstrations. Two have been timed symbolically for September 21 – the 53rd anniversary of Ferdinand Marcos Snr’s proclamation imposing martial law.**
The day is set to begin with students marching to Rizal Park for a rally dubbed ‘Baha sa Luneta’ (‘Flood in Luneta’). Later, more than 200 organisations plan to converge at the People Power Monument on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa) for the ‘Trillion Peso March’, in allusion to the vast sums spent on flood control over the past two decades.
Amid calls for Marcos’ resignation, Presto said that the urgent priority at the moment is enforcing accountability among the corrupt, making them return stolen funds and fixing the flood control projects as the climate crisis worsens.
The launch brought together youth organizations such as Akbayan Youth, Student Council Alliance of the Philippines (SCAP), Liberal Youth, Kilos Ko Youth, Kaya Natin Youth, Bulakenyo for Good Governance, UP Alyansa, and PANTAY, along with many student councils nationwide.
The coalition was joined by governance champions: Akbayan Partylist Rep. Perci Cendaña, former COA Commissioner Heidi Mendoza, and Akbayan Party President Rafaela David, who expressed their support for this broad youth initiative to make corruption socially unacceptable and politically indefensible.
Another aspect of this “transparency initiative” is using civil society organizations, such as the Atin Ito Coalition, led by Rafaela David and Edicio dela Torre, to draw attention to the South China Sea. Rafaela is also the executive director of the Center for Youth Advocacy and Networking (CYAN). CYAN has been financed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which gets the majority of its funding from the U.S. Congress. With its origins dating back to the late 1960s, when the Central Intelligence Agency faced criticism for secretly supporting activists and opposition groups in nations that appeared to be leaning closer to the Soviet Union. Following the revelation of those CIA plots, the agency faced criticism for what some perceived to be devious manipulation of sovereign states. Congress established the NED in 1983 after years of discussion about whether and how the financing should continue.
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