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Category: Cultural Sabotage 2004-12-06 2:43 PM +0800

"Did Someome said FOOD?!"
by Mark Oath
Punks,Queers,Vagrants,Homeless,Junkies get together 2 celebrate what can only be called d "Paper Bag" phenomenon. A distribution of goods to the disaffected youths in Crossing, Calamba in Dec 5 2004.

An outburst of frenzy came in when the local markets- as affected by the typhoon in the past couple of days-shelled out sacks of Corn,Rice, and Vegetable of what can only be considered one of the most festive event in punk counterculture community in the country. Another typical feeding by the poor slobs who refuse to play the role of charity group in giving away "Free Food" to the community- more immediate priority rather than taking measures by a typical protest and publicity..

The group of initiators dont know what to do with the excess of supply- the local market donated not only vegetales but poultry,fish,pork & Eggs..?!

The collective space is also facing evictions and legal threats.

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Category: Workers Resistance 2004-12-06 10:04 AM +0800

Socialist Workers Seize The Labor Department
by Manila Indymedia

The militant workers seiged the Department of Labor office in Fort Santiago Manila last week, during the Bonifacio Day celebration to demand the labor secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas be kicked-out from office together with her bloody Anti-Labor policy "Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ)".

[ Photos: 1 | 2 ]

The AJ was believed to be the prime spell that ordered the authorities to kill the hapless striking workers of Hacienda Luisita, "the back-to-work order of the Secretary of Labor became the “license to kill” for the AFP and PNP" says Solidarity of Filipino Workers(BMP) in a statement. [ Read More ]

Related Stories:
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The Legacy of Bonifacio Lives In The Struggle
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Category: Anti-Capitalism 2004-12-06 9:09 AM +0800

Buy Nothing Celebration; Activists Participated By Not Participating
by Jong Pairez (Manila Indymedia Volunteer)
BUY NOTHING DAY
MANILA, Philippines - In line with the international celebration of "Buy Nothing Day", groups of autonomous activist gathered in Manila bay to spend their time without spending. Instead, they gave out free useful stuffs to homeless and needy people, together they dubbed the celebration as "Bootleg Buy Nothing Day" last week.

[ Watch The Video ]

Manila bay is once before a homeless haven, but since the Manila authority renovated the bay for attracting tourists, the homeless were displaced and now inhabits at the Luneta Park near the bay. [ See The Photos ]


[ Manila Infoshop | Adbusters.org | Buy Nothing Day Japan ]
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Category: From the Newswire 2004-12-04 2:36 PM +0800

EarthFirst: No Pesticide Use Day
by EarthFirst!-Davao
From the newswire...........
NO PESTICIDE USE DAY

Dec. 3, 2004 a call for No Pesticide Use Day. Earth first Movement, different Environmental groups, Katribu Art Movement, Youth Sector, Tiatro kalye, students from different schools gathered at Freedom park Davao City to voice out their rage against the use of chemical pesticide.

The gathering wants to spread the news that the world's worst industrial accident occured at a Union Carbide pest plant in Bhopal, India. This accident happend on sunday Dec. 3,1984. Many countries arround the globe have been commemorating the Dec. 3 tragedy thru a no Pesticide Use Day (ACTUALLY EVERYDAY IS A NO PESTICIDE USE DAY!). It is a campaign to remember the hundreds who died, and thousands who suffered the disaster world wide including the bagobo community and other tribal community in Mindanao.

The Day is also to draw attention to the life threatening impacts of chemical pesticides on people and the environment by the plantations here in mindanao.

For more information, click here: [EarthFirst! -Davao]
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Category: Workers Resistance 2004-11-17 3:32 PM +0800

Farm Workers Strike in a Sugar plant, Brutally Dispersed
by Manila Indymedia

CENTRAL LUZON, Philippines- A month old farm-workers strike in Hacienda Luisita Sugar Plantation in Tarlac was brutally dispersed by the Philippine authorities, leaving seven people dead and hundreds wounded while dozens more were arrested, yesterday.

According to reports; from the very first start since the farm-workers had erected their picket line after a deadlock in Collective Bargaining Agreement between the management and the workers union, the workers received continuous harassment from the local authorities and hired strikebreakers. But the workers valiantly stood their ground as the numerous canisters of tear gas and endless nights of police violence tried to dismantle the workers picket.

But last night at 8p.m., the Philippine authorities brutally crushed the workers defenses by directly shooting live bullets against the striking workers who were only demanding for social benefits and job securities.

The Hacienda Luisita- a big sugar plantation in Tarlac, which is owned by the family of the former Philippine President Corazon Aquino has a numerous cases of anti-workers policy including illegal mass lay-offs and indiscriminate retrenchment of labor leaders and union members.

The Former President was also a notorious anti-farm worker during her presidency; she was the one who is responsible of the bloody massacre in Mendiola infront the President’s palace that caused several hundreds of farmers killed while they were peacefully protesting against the dubious Agrarian Reform.
[ Read More]

BREAKING NEWS:11.18.2004
MANILA- A noise barrage was held yesterday by groups of workers in Manila, expressing their solidarity with the farm-workers of Hacienda Luisita.

Together, they denounced the intervention of State violence in dealing with the workers.[ Full Story ]

Related Stories:
We need an independent and impartial investigation of the violent dispersal of the strike by Hacienda Luisita workers
APL condemns military attack demands Justice to Hacienda Luisita strikers
Ex-President Aquino Locked in Long-Drawn Battle with Hacienda Workers
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