MALAYA to hold nationwide actions Feb. 25 to commemorate ‘People Power Anniversary’ of 1986
MALAYA to hold nationwide actions Feb. 25 to commemorate ‘People Power Anniversary’ of 1986
NEW YORK – Over 25 concerned community leaders launched a new U.S.-based alliance called MALAYA: US Movement Against Killings and Dictatorship and for Democracy in the Philippines on February 6, 2018. They represent a cross-section of the Filipino community of faith leaders, academe, attorneys, youth leaders, business owners, and human rights advocates.
The conveners of MALAYA said the new alliance was established to express their fullest condemnation of increasing “fascist” administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. They also pledged to mobilize more people in the U.S. to stand up for human rights, inviting people to sign MALAYA’s petition as a concrete action the public can take to prevent Duterte from imposing a new dictatorship on the Philippines.
Conveners are from the West Coast, Mid-West, and the East Coast.
According to a statement, MALAYA will hold nationally coordinated actions around the U.S. on February 25 to commemorate the “People Power Anniversary” of 1986, when millions of people poured into the streets of the Philippines to demand an end of the dictatorship of then-President Ferdinand Marcos.
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