ICHRP is calling for urgent financial support for over 330 arrested protestors in the Philippines, and to support the ongoing grassroots activities protesting ASEAN, Trump, and Pax Silica!
Over the last two days, the Philippine National Police (PNP) have arrested:
- over 300 participants in the anti-Pax Silica Lakbayan (caravan) from Southern Tagalog;
- 21 participants in the Lakbayan from Central Luzon and blocked its progress;
- and 9 individuals at a workers-led mobilization in Liwasang Bonifacio.
The PNP have also surrounded the Kampuhan (camp-out) at the University of the Philippines – Diliman campus.
This is one of the largest mass arrests by the PNP in recent years.
The Lakbayan and the Kampuhan represent a people’s movement drawn from across the Philippines to oppose US-led war and plunder – whether through AI data centres, destructive mining projects, land-grabbing of ancestral land, militarization of communities, and other threats to people’s land, livelihood, and lives. This is a movement for genuine self-determination of the Filipino people.
Beyond the US, other foreign governments have signed or pursued unequal or militarist agreements with the Philippines, such as Canada’s Carney concluding an agreement for data centres and drones at the ASEAN summit.
Your donations will go to support the legal fund for those arrested, as well as toward the costs of the Kampuhan and the Lakbayan to ensure that the people of the Philippines can hold the Marcos Jr. Admin, the US and other exploiting foreign governments, and foreign corporations accountable for their violations of people’s rights.
