We are collecting donations to contribute towards Typhoon Carina relief efforts by Consortium for People’s Development – Disaster Response. Donate to this campaign at ichrp.net/CarinaFundraiser
On July 24, Super Typhoon Carina brought severe winds and heavy rainfall across the Philippines. The impacts of Typhoon Carina have been harsh and deadly: roads have closed due to landslides, 600,000 are without power, tens of thousands of Filipinos been forced from their homes and fled to evacuations centers, and the death toll stands at at least 14, including a pregnant woman and three children in Batangas.
While the Marcos regime brags of infrastructure and flood prevention projects, the effects of the typhoon further prove his regime’s incompetency in responding to the needs of the people. While the streets of the Philippines are flooding and the Filipino people suffer, Marcos focuses his time on pandering to US economic and military interests in the Philippines. This upcoming week, he even plans to welcome US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, to receive a $500 increase in foreign military financing and to further collude with the US on their war provocations against China.
The Philippines should be a place where Filipinos should thrive and where the people’s right to land, health and development should be respected. Instead, Marcos, along with the regimes before him, sell out the land of the Philippines as a launching pad for US war and neglect the people amid their suffering. In this urgent time, we call on the international community to support people’s initiatives like the Consortium on Development and donate to support relief and rehabilitation efforts amid state neglect.
