After AfestA was SONA
WHAT is SONA or State of the Nation Address? It is an annual spectacle of the Philippine Government, representating the head of the State on her best fashionable attire infront the television screen while blabbering about her reports of "Progress". Her blabs also includes a new set of promises for the miserably battered Filipino people.
As the head of the State spits a mouthful of saliva on a seemingly Pulpit platform inside the House of Congress, her cohorts clap their hands in unison as if they were cheering to a great Dictator. Meanwhile, as the head of the State (President) is enjoying herself with those complementary bullshits, hundreds of thousands of Police and Military was stationed outside the House of Congress to control the People from expressing dissent and for showing the real State of the Nation.
Among those who went out to the Streets and Protested against the State and its Authoritarian abuses were the various autonomous collectives in Metro Manila who recently participated with the AfestA event. Together they slammed the State for continously tolerating Human Rights abuses and Political Killings, Environmental Destruction and for selling-out all the local Resources through WTO, GATT and World Bank.
The following photographs were taken during the State of the Nation Address (SONA) this July 24, 2006.
Meanwhile, down south the Philippine archipelago, autonomous collectives from Davao and their close neighborhood provinces converged together and took part with the Nationwide action against the State of the Nation Address (SONA). You can view all the pictures by clicking here.
GROUPS: (Manila) Cainta Collective, Local Anarchist Network, Anarchist Initiative for Direct Democracy, Autonomous Manila, Project Aperture, Food Not Bombs Manila, Anarchist Study Circle, EarthFirst! Manila, DieMedia
(Davao) As Awhole Collective, Kinaiyahan, Davao Anarchist Resistance Movement, Kauban Movement, Food Not Bombs Davao, Kontaminado
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Comment by you dont wanna know who — August 13, 2006 @ 2:52 am
all i know was that the “anarchists” run like scared chicken shit when the police finally took them seriously. and all the pigs got to do was just be there without lifting a singel finger of brutality. so much for propaganda of the deed.
Comment by anonymous — September 5, 2006 @ 10:23 am