A night of Solidarity for Negros
Thursday, September 5, 2019 | 7 PM
Mow’s
Kowloon House Basement, 20 Matalino St., 1100 Quezon City, Philippines
Feudal relations prevalent in Negros make it a hotbed of agrarian unrest. Despite being one of the world’s biggest producers of sugarcane or tubo, Negros farmers remain landless, mired in destitution and exploitation.
Resistance to these feudal conditions have, time and again, been suppressed. Between President Duterte taking power in 2016 and Duterte declaring a “state of lawlessness” on the island last November, 42 civilians have been killed. The declaration which came by way of Memorandum Order 32—an anti-insurgency policy—led to a spike in the atrocities. In the eight months of its implementation, the body count increased to more than 90, indicating an almost 350% increase in the rate of killings.
(Lifted from Defend Negros Network’s statement)
From defenseless peasants to human rights advocates to church workers to a sleeping 1-year-old infant, this war on the people of Negros has shown no remorse thus far.
Now is a time ensconced in a severe political climate, one that has our countrymen killed in their own homes. Justice for the slain is nowhere in sight as deeply entrenched in this political climate is a similarly ruthless culture of impunity. Thus, it is crucial to stand in solidarity with the poor and marginalized rendered vulnerable in a time when the state’s pursuit of its corrupt idea of justice grows more implacably violent each day.
As a collective outcry to #StopTheAttacks and a jolt to invigorate the peoples’ struggle at large, Kabataan Partylist Vito Cruz and Defend Negros #stoptheattacks along with Anakbayan Vito Cruz, Panday Sining CSB, DIWA, and Youth Act Now Against Tyranny bring you
Ang mga magsasakang bumubuhay sa sambayanan ay ang pangunahing inaatake ng naghaharing sistemang mapanupil. Kung hindi sila pinapatay sa sistematikong pasismo, sila’y pinapatay sa pamamagitan ng mga polisiyang nagyuyurak sa kabuhayan at nagbabaon sa kanila sa kahirapan!
Tumindig at manindigan para sa mga magsasakang ubos-lakas na tumutustos sa lipunang Pilipino! Makiisa sa laban para sa bansang malaya sa dikta ng mga aparato ng tampalasang neoliberal na ekonomya sa hanay ng mga kawani sa estado at malalaking negosyante.
MAKIISA SA LABAN NG MASANG MAGSASAKA!
Pagsapit ng 7:30 n.g., magkakaroon ng talakayan hinggil sa kalagayan ng Negros at ang lagim na pumapalibot dito at maging sa buong bansa dala ng sustinidong pyudalismo at pasismo.
Dumalo, magpadalo, at makialam sa kalagayan ng sektor ng magsasaka ng Negros at ng kabuuan dulot ng malakolonyal at malapyudal na lipunan.
TAMPOK ANG MGA PAGTATANGHAL NG
Shirebound and Busking
bp valenzuela
The Buildings
Ourselves the Elves
BLKD + Calix
Panday Sining CSB and the Vito Cruz Collective
#StandWithFarmers
#StopTheAttacks
#DefendPHAgri
