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Hey guys, I know I don’t post much in this blog anymore and I am not exactly sure who will see this but I’m posting this because today is the Philippine Presidential Elections and, just like what other people here are already saying, we’re fighting for our lives right now.
We are fighting against the return of dictatorship in the country. We are fighting against the continuation of corruption and injustice. We are fighting for a better future. We are fighting, so that we may finally know peace.
Today, multiple issues regarding the elections have come up. Vote-Counting Machines (VCMs) “malfunctioning”, SD cards missing, people getting PAID for voting for the dictator’s son and his party, and more. Even the commission in charge of ENSURING FAIR ELECTIONS is failing to fully understand the grasp said issues, wasting people’s time and votes.
If you do find this post and read it, all I ask is that you share the news about the Philippines. Anything about today (May 9, 2022),
about Halalan 2022/PH Elections 2022,
about BBM and the Marcos Family,
about Leni Robredo, Kiko Pangilinan, Chel Diokno and the rest of Robredo’s senatorial slate (+ Neri Colmenares),
and if this inspires you to learn everything else, then please do.
We are asking for your help, not in votes, but in sharing what is happening here to the rest of the world. Whatever happens, whatever the results are, we want the whole world to see what is going on. (But thank you to the foreign news outlets who have been speaking on this).
All the Filipinos are asking for is a fair government, where lives are recognized and uplifted. We cannot be kept in the dark again, we have had enough.
And if we need to meet in EDSA once again, then so be it.
#philippines#halalan 2022#elections 2022#ph elections 2022#leni rebredo for president#kiko pangilinan for vice president#leni robredo#kiko pangilinan#chel diokno#philippine elections#philippine elections 2022#philippine politics#politics#social justice
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Current president of the Philippines, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., watching F1 races while the country is in multiple crises
Current vice president of the Philippines, Sara Duterte, refusing to tell the public why she needs SO MUCH MONEY as Confidential Funds for "Education"
calling it a "shitshow" is an understatement
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NEVER FORGET. NEVER AGAIN.
On the 21st of September 1972, 51 years ago, Proclamation 1081 was signed. This would become the deadly start of the Martial Law.
However, the masses only realized that it has started on the 23rd of September. How did this happen? An ambush against the then Minister of Defense, Juan Ponce Enrile on the 22nd of September.
The Marcos regime is anti-NPA, or New People's Army, sometimes called CPP-NPA (Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army)
Now, let's have some facts about the Martial Law.
1. 107,240 people are primary victims of the HRVs during Martial Law.
- 70,000 are arrested.
- 34,000 are tortured.
- 3,240 are killed by the military police.
2. 464 media outlets were closed
- 8 major English newspapers
- 18 vernacular, Spanish and English dailies
- 60 community newspapers.
- 66 TV channels (including ABS-CBN)
- 20 radio stations
- 292 provincial radio stations.
3. 11,103 of these people are victims of human rights violations.
- 2,326 were killed or disappeared.
- 238 were r*ped and forcibly abducted
- 217 were m*tilated, abused sexually, including minors.
- 1,467 were abused mentally, psychologically, emotionally.
- 182 were subjected to inhumane treatment
- 699 are in arbitrary detention (more than 6 months)
- 1,417 are detained between 15 days to 6 months
- 1,239 are detained from 36 hours up to 15 days
- 579 were in involuntary exile involving violence and illegal takeover of business
- 2,739 were in involuntary exile involving intimidation and physical injuries
This remains a dark stain in Philippine history. And with another Marcos on the high seat, we voice out: NEVER FORGET. NEVER AGAIN.
Sources:
Fast Facts: The Marcos martial law regime | Inquirer News
https://twitter.com/indiohistorian/status/1485997495587151877
#philippine history#philippines#politics#history#marcos regime#martial law#philippine politics#never forget#never again
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What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck-
WHAT IN ACTUAL HELL IS THIS
(Link to the article)
Why.
Why the hell Is the Philippines (my country) placing down a law that pointlessly "protects" Cishet people's rights?
Cishet people aren't oppressed
They don't need these kinds of laws in place
Not to mention that it is heavily implied that any Cishet people can ridicule members of the LGBTQIA+ because it's within their "rights"
And they pulled Christianity into the reasoning which should not be a part of it in the first place.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Not only are women in the Philippines not allowed to have abortions, divorce isn't legalized, and gay marriage isn't even a thing... They just had to make a stupid pointless law that said people wont even benefit from because they aren't oppressed in the first place.
Sorry for the out of place rant and politics, especially since I post Goddamn fanart, but holy shit this is just too outrageous for me to not speak up about it.
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The state of the Philippines after the May 9, 2022 National Elections (Part 2)
continuing from here
"why are there so many tweets?"
I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF OUR SITUATION, ESPECIALLY FROM THE FILIPINOS' PERSPECTIVE.
this might as well be the only time I get to tell about it too
especially given that we have a history of being silenced and shot down by our political abusers.
read my messages. then try to understand. then read them all again.
I need you to understand and know this well. almost begging, even, because we are in a state of turmoil and we may have to fight for our rights — we might have fight for our lives
and if anyone asks what happened, and if anyone so dares to tell you that we were all fools- i hope by then you will have known the deep struggle we had to go through just to fight for ourselves and the very president we wanted to have
Filipino resilience should not be celebrated.
Accountability must be demanded.
[referring to the Commission on Elections] You are rich in funds. Even if- all we want is ONE reliable VCM (Vote Counting Machine). That's it. That's all we want. Voting should not last beyond 10 minutes, but how many hours have we been in line here?
The resiliency of Filipinos is not an honorary badge.
We should not be used to being sweaty, tired, and hungry.
— from ABS-CBN News Official Twitter
With this in mind, there have been some speculation that PayPal might pull out from the Philippines like they pulled out from Ukraine due to the Ukraine/Russia conflicts.
A freelance illustrator had to personally reach out to PayPal to clarify this.
I would like to end this with an archive of documents, news articles, and resources comprehensively detailing the Marcos era, especially during the Martial Law. He has committed heinous crimes against the Filipino people as well as robbed us of ₱203B which should have long been paid in their estate taxes.
Please help me spread awareness. I cannot trust the international media and news outlets to properly tell our experiences without dubbing us collectively as fools or idiots who let a dictator's son have power. I cannot trust them to tell how we fought so hard and accumulated too many supporters only to be let down by manipulation and exploitation.
That will be all, and thank you for reading.
#[ 🗣️ | the magical girl speaks ]#[ 📢 | the magical girl's signal boost ]#signal boost#boost#philippines#philippine politics#politics#philippine national elections#philippine elections#philippine elections 2022#elections 2022#national elections 2022#halalan 2022#fascism#dictatorship#bongbong marcos#ferdinand marcos#sara duterte#rodrigo duterte#the kingmaker
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PLEASE REBLOG!!!
Marcos and Duterte hasn't even won yet and THIS is already happening
The votes are still being counted. There are protests happening because PPCRV (Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting) volunteers in Intramuros are BEING HARRASED BY THE MILITARY AND POLICE. UP STUDENT ATHLETES ARE BEING THREATENED AND TRAUMA BY THE POLICE. They are sabotaging the lights and surrounding the innocents.
COMELEC wants to stop the PPCRV Manual Counting because it's obvious Leni and Kiko are leading. Some are even destroying ballots that voted for Leni and Kiko, and some are shading Marcos. Please help us spread awareness of what's happening.
#rwby#arknights#never again#lore olympus#anti lore olympus#leni robredo#let leni lead#Philippines#philippine elections#philippine politics#comelec palpak#comelec#legend of zelda#the legend of zelda
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A bit of a different one today!
"Happy" Philippine Independence Day! May the Filipino people truly be free one day 🇵🇭
Content Warnings:
Discussions of real life fascism, Philippine Martial Law, extrajudicial and state sponsored killings, massacres, dismemberment, red-tagging.
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Spoilers for some past Hi Nay episodes! Episode excerpts include:
Remind Me To Tell You Later: Tiyanak
Episode 11: Nakaraan (Before)
Remind Me To Tell You Later: Madre
Episode 26: Undas Part 2
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Stories included:
EDSA by Russel Molina and Sergio Bumatay III
Ito Ang Diktadura by Equipo Plantel, Mikel Casal (Illustrator), Annie Yglopaz (Translator), Kata Garcia (Translator)
You can purchase them at Adarna House.
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Songs included:
Ili-ili Tulog Anay (Visayan Lullaby) played by Monching Carpio on guitar
Bayan Ko (Kundiman by José Alejandrino) played by Monching Carpio on guitar
#hinaypod#hi nay podcast#horror podcast#filipino podcast#horror audio drama#philippine independence day#araw ng kalayaan#martial law#philippine politics#philippine history#filipino culture
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"The victorious elites affirm the triumph of democracy, the victory of the people; and the latter listen to finely crafted speeches on nationalism, social justice, and the popular welfare. But the archetypal lider in Filipino politics is still he who gets the most jobs for his followers, increases his income when his faction is in power (while paying less in income taxes), and gives the most help in various forms to his followers' families. This is the relationship between a Mafia don and his "soldiers." What is Filipino in this is that, the rewards distributed by politicians are public resources; the politicians who are out of power regard their counterparts in power with envy and admiration, and no practitioner of this highly developed Filipino art has even been accused of anything but success."
— Onofre D. Corpuz, Is There A Philippine Public Administration?
#the philippines#philippine literature#philippine politics#philippine history#words#pilipinas#my curations#my post
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I guess the Philippine Constitution does take notes from the American one.
Makes sense why both systems are all the way fucked up.
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on the 2022 philippine elections
Originally posted under @annuka‘s blog here
One thing non-Filipinos and Filipino diaspora should know is there’s been a concerted effort to reimagine the 20-year Marcos dictatorship as a purely benevolent effort that ushered a golden age into the Philippines. It’s not. Thousands of human rights violations, billions of dollars in debt, and hundreds of cronies still in power spawned from that dark age.
Along with the disinformation campaign, there’s a revival of support for the Marcoses among the demographic of middle-aged to older people who didn’t suffer from the atrocities of the dictatorship. Authoritarian nostalgia. Then there are the youth who earnestly believe in the authoritarian propaganda sown with anti-intellectualism, mistrust of journalistic institutions, and academia.
It also doesn’t help that there’s strong regional hegemony and oligarchic families who were either Marcos cronies or have vested interest in supporting this particular political dynasty over others. It should be no secret, especially to US-based people, that conglomerates such as Alliance Global and dynasties like the Cojuangcos (et. al) have significant ties to politics that allow them to influence lawmaking and more. I don’t think I have to spell out the significant economic desperation that will descend on the Philippines—and investors are already hesitant to put any stakes in our country.
In terms of international politics, the Philippines rests in a strategic area in the middle of Asia and the Pacific. We’ve long been used as a base by the US, and due to the Duterte presidency, we’re losing our sovreignty—which was supposed to be upheld with the decision by the International Tribunal Court in the Hague—over the West Philippine Sea to China. There was also a concerted effort to improve relations with Russia (though there’s some treadback on that front). In other words, the Philippines is being passed from the US to other countries. And given that the Marcoses are held in contempt by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (and banned from US territories), it’s not implausible to see relations further deteriorate.
The best thing that Filipinos can hope for, imo, is an incompetent presidency where nothing of substance happens. It’s no secret that Ferdinand Marcos Jr./Bongbong Marcos has done nothing of real impact in his time as a senator. But if he’s steered and influenced, or worse, enacts the same policies as his dictator father, the Philippines will suffer greater losses than it already has. Or just plain steal the $10 billion or more plundered by his dictator father back.
I’m sorry for the incoherent thoughts. I’m just sick and tired of this happening again and again. I’ve gone through several national elections already, and I get why leaders in the opposition are tired and jaded. I understand why veteran journalists march on, unfeeling.
We have a saying here: Pilipinas, ang hirap mong mahalin. It’s hard to love the Philippines. And it’s only going to get harder now.
All I ask at this point, to everyone who don’t live in the Philippines, is to not lose the will to fight. Help us fight for future. Don’t let us be a memory.
#philippine elections 2022#philippines#philippine politics#halalan 2022#world politics#potato post#tag: politics
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We are not the same.
#philippines#philippine elections 2022#philippine elections#halalan 2022#eleksyon 2022#eleksyons 2022#philippine politics#politics
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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.
Info for images:
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
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even if im tired, i am still a citizen of the country
im highly frustrated with things going on in the philippines, no words can describe the amount of stress that my smol body can hold.
but i will still find a way to help it.
i'm placing here a twitter thread of what none Filipino peeps can do to help regarding the situation.
we don't want the world to believe that the elections were a result of a fair process.
TWITTER LINK
i may not be the biggest blog here but at least i can reach some people! those who have a lot of international friends pls spread the word of what they can do!
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The state of the Philippines after the May 9, 2022 National Elections (Part 1)
as of May 11, 2022, 8:57 PM
The following post was initially written in Discord as a long string of messages for my overseas/international/foreign internet friends.
The original messages have been kept intact with some grammatical corrections as well as formatting modifications and minor additions for better emphasis.
Indented texts are the ones which were originally Discord messages while non-indented texts are new additions.
With that aside, the content remains the same as it was initially sent to my friends.
Now, without further ado, let me begin.
hi
it has been two days since May 9
it has been two days since my country's national elections
right now we're in massive chaos because the son (Bongbong Marcos) of a past dictator (Ferdinand E. Marcos) is threatening to become our next president // as well as the daughter (Sara Duterte) of our last president (Rodrigo Duterte) becoming vice president
policital dynasties, yall. fucking hell
anyway
you might be wondering, "is Isa ok? how is she faring?"
I'm still fairly okay, but with the way I've been vocal about the bullshit going on I might not be able to be online any longer
this country has a history of its own people being silenced by those in power
international media will tell you that we voted the dictator's son into presidency and that we are fools.
do not let them convince you.
we fought so hard. we fought so hard for the only woman running for presidency and we accumulated so many supporters and yet we failed.
wait, no. we were cheated.
how?
because of the shit we call corruption and greed
corruption and greed and power and MANIPULATION
OUR MASSES WERE MANIPULATED INTO VOTING THE DICTATOR'S SON.
lucky are the ones who are born in the middle class, and yet luckier are those who were born rich.
unfortunate are those who were born so poor that their main priority is living day by day.
votes were bought.
machines were rigged.
servers were hacked.
just for the dictator's son to be called president.
just to enable a new abuser and give him power.
please do not let the media convince you that we were fools.
we fought so hard for the right presidential candidate not to be thought like this.
compilation thread of election inconveniences, offenses, and violations
thread of movies and documentaries about the Marcoses and the era of Martial Law under Ferdinand E. Marcos
watch The Kingmaker for free [available Philippines only as per Lauren Greenfield's intentions]
The post continues here due to Tumblr's 10-photo limit.
#[ 🗣️ | the magical girl speaks ]#[ 📢 | the magical girl's signal boost ]#signal boost#boost#philippines#philippine politics#politics#philippine national elections#philippine elections#philippine elections 2022#elections 2022#national elections 2022#halalan 2022#fascism#dictatorship#bongbong marcos#ferdinand marcos#sara duterte#rodrigo duterte#the kingmaker
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(I'm sprry I posted these with various tags but I need everyone to see them)
While browsing Facebook, I saw some post from Filipino artists saying that their international clients are cancelling commissions and I just want to say... please Please PLEASE do not cut them out. Especially if they don't even support Marcos, Duterte, and their cronies.
Artists, especially in the Philippines, earn very little and this will make their situations worse. Please if you can and you like their art, please continue to support them, it will help them and their families during these difficult times.
Most of us are not happy with this. We have a fucking actor as the goddamn leading senator instead of a fucking human rights lawyer with years of experience. There is an absolutely big chance that this election is not without cheating. The Philippine Stock Market Exchange Index is slowly crashing and that is going the affect the cost of our living expenses like food and other necessities. If you can and still like their art and you still want to get more content from them, please don't stop supporting them.
#philippines#philippine elections#philippine politics#art#arknights#rwby#artists on tumblr#art commissions#commissions#commission#anti lo#lo crit#lore olympus#anti lore olympus#yang xiao long#your throne#webtoon#Filipino#ganondorf
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