Anakpawis solon says AFP red-baiting of students as 'malicious'
Published Oct 4, 2018 05:32 pm
By Charissa Luci-Atienza
Anakpawis partylist Rep. Ariel “Ka Ayik” Casilao branded on Thursday as “malicious” the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) red-baiting against youth-students in 18 universities.
Anakpawis partylist Rep. Ariel “Ka Ayik” Casilao (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
He said the military was just implicating the young activists to the government’s trumped up ouster propaganda branded as “Red October.”
AFP claimed that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) was recruiting among students for the ouster of President Rodrigo Duterte.
“We condemn this malicious and bankrupt measure of the AFP to red tag young activists, who are intellectuals and critical, immune of falling for fake news the government is peddling,” Casilao said in a statement, urging the public to condemn the AFP’s red-baiting against youth-students.
He said the youth-students cannot tolerate the Duterte administration’s ceaseless extra-judicial killings brought about by the sham war on drugs, corruption and rehabilitation of the Marcoses, price shocks and economic crisis generated by the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law, rice shortage, political persecution, adulteration and breach of rule of law.
“This simply means that the students are taking on their historical task to be agents of social change, especially by immersing with the basic masses, the workers, peasants, indigenous peoples, urban poor and others. They are able to relate their concrete conditions as direct consequences of government programs and policies, thus, they join their struggle,” the lawmaker who was a founding regional leader of Anakbayan for the Davao region said.
Casilao maintained that “Red October” is sham, a distraction against broad public attention to concrete issues such as the economic crisis.
He said the farmers’ groups will continue to hold mass actions to demand free distribution of land, protest land grabbing and displacement, and condemn human rights abuses.
During the month of October, the peasant movement led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) marks the anniversary of the Presidential Decree 27 or the sham land reform program of the Marcos dictatorship, the progressive solon noted.
KMP’s regional chapters from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao usually hold mass actions in front of the offices of the Department of Agrarian Reform to demand free distribution of land, protest land grabbing and displacement, and condemn human rights abuses, according to Casilao.
Anakpawis partylist Rep. Ariel “Ka Ayik” Casilao (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
He said the military was just implicating the young activists to the government’s trumped up ouster propaganda branded as “Red October.”
AFP claimed that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) was recruiting among students for the ouster of President Rodrigo Duterte.
“We condemn this malicious and bankrupt measure of the AFP to red tag young activists, who are intellectuals and critical, immune of falling for fake news the government is peddling,” Casilao said in a statement, urging the public to condemn the AFP’s red-baiting against youth-students.
He said the youth-students cannot tolerate the Duterte administration’s ceaseless extra-judicial killings brought about by the sham war on drugs, corruption and rehabilitation of the Marcoses, price shocks and economic crisis generated by the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law, rice shortage, political persecution, adulteration and breach of rule of law.
“This simply means that the students are taking on their historical task to be agents of social change, especially by immersing with the basic masses, the workers, peasants, indigenous peoples, urban poor and others. They are able to relate their concrete conditions as direct consequences of government programs and policies, thus, they join their struggle,” the lawmaker who was a founding regional leader of Anakbayan for the Davao region said.
Casilao maintained that “Red October” is sham, a distraction against broad public attention to concrete issues such as the economic crisis.
He said the farmers’ groups will continue to hold mass actions to demand free distribution of land, protest land grabbing and displacement, and condemn human rights abuses.
During the month of October, the peasant movement led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) marks the anniversary of the Presidential Decree 27 or the sham land reform program of the Marcos dictatorship, the progressive solon noted.
KMP’s regional chapters from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao usually hold mass actions in front of the offices of the Department of Agrarian Reform to demand free distribution of land, protest land grabbing and displacement, and condemn human rights abuses, according to Casilao.