“The interest of the students is not just to get a good education, but to be living in a just and humane society. In the Philippines, it’s clear that poverty and inhumanity is being perpetrated by the world’s number one imperialist power, the United States.”

This was the statement of Aki Merced, spokesperson for the League of Filipino Students, as students from all over the country burned flags of the United States of America to express rage over the parasitic control of the United States to the Philippines and continued puppetry of the Aquino regime to the United States. The group also commended Marjohara Tucay, Editor in Chief of the Philippine Collegian, for standing up and protesting inside the Hillary Clinton forum held at the National Museum yesterday.

“All over the world, people are rising up against the greedy monopoly capitalists and banks of the USA. The Philippines is not saved from the crippling effect of the global capitalist downfall, especially because we are in the throes of US imperialist control. In time of great economic depression, the US turns to its semi-colonies like the Philippines to suck more blood and attempt to revive its economy.”, said Merced.

Merced continued that even the problems of the Philippine education sector are due to the ongoing policy control of the US and its instruments—the IMF, WB and WTO. “Deregulation and continued slashing of the education budget is directly attributable to the profit-promoting policies of these financial institutions. The people have retaliated and the US government, together with Aquino, has responded with intensified military campaigns against naysayers.”

“We commend Marjohara Tucay for serving as a great example for the Filipino youth, standing up with militancy and principle. It is for Ms. Hillary Clinton’s benefit, now that she knows that the Filipino youth is not happy with the US troops staying in our islands and pinning down the iron hold of the United States on the Philippines.”

‘Today, on the International Students Day, we collectively call for the junking of all unequal and onerous US-PH agreements, and vow to intensify the struggle for genuine patrimony and sovereignty. We are one with the Filipino people in saying: Down with US Imperialism!”

LFS Spokesperson, Aki Merced, hands Marjohara Tucay, a torch as a symbol of the youth’s admiration for his bravery for protesting at yesterday’s forum, the torch that will burn the US Imperialist greed to flames