#Malacañang

[angelhandstattoo]

Malacañan Palace, Manila - We were privileged to be given a tour of the historic facilities and living quarters of the serving President (currently “Bongbong” Marcos, son of Ferdinand and Imelda, who also grew up in Malacañan Palace) and it did not disappoint! I bought my own barong to wear for the occasion, and was fascinated with the history preserved within. Our guide was passionate and knowledgeable, and the rooms were most impressive. We ended the tour with a lovely lunch at Cabel @bycabel.ph - a wonderful new eatery in the Malacañang area 🇵🇭🎖️🍲 . . @joatwood @zaneta.encarnacion @audie.decastro @i.am.pam @livingcatrina #philippines #malacañang #malacañanpalace #manila #kapwatour2023 #visitphilippines #travelphilippines #palace #palacetour #filipino #filipina #filipinoamerican #sandiegofilipinos #barong #imeldamarcos #coryaquino #filipinohistory #mestiza #tattooer #ladytattooers #filipinatattooartist #filipinotattooartist #pinay (at Malacañang Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYtqCLN6dW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nablah]

so my neighbor diktajunior in malacañang was apparently celebrating dear old daddy's bday i hope they all die

[jrbustamante]

Christmas Lunch at Malacañang Palace

Closing 2023 with a sumptuous Christmas lunch at the palace with a special message from  Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. himself is definitely something to remember. Especially since it was a first Malacañang Palace event for me. I did not hesitate to accept the invitation to meet up and celebrate the festive occasion with fellow supporters and our hardworking leader.  Aside from learning different…

[ricisidro]

Malacañang Palace suspends government work and classes at all levels in the National Capital Region (NCR) today, July 24, 2024, due to the effects of Typhoon Carina and Habagat.

The suspension of work for private companies and offices is left to the discretion of their respective heads.

Stay safe! 🙏

[ask-emilz-de-philz]

Hadji: ''Eid Mubarak! Wishing you and your family a prosperous Eid-ul-Fitr filled with love, laughter, and togetherness.''

April 10, 2024 a regular holiday in view of Eid’l Fitr, PBBM declares

In observance of Eid’l Fitr, the Islamic festival that marks the end of the month-long Ramadan, President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. has declared Wednesday, April 10, 2024 as a regular holiday throughout the country.

Through Proclamation No. 514 dated April 4, 2024, Malacañang formally announced the said national holiday in order to pay respects to the Muslim Filipino community and their commemoration of Ramadan’s end.

This is also to “allow the entire Filipino nation to join their Muslim brothers and sisters in peace and harmony in the observance and celebration of Eid’l Fitr.” The proclamation also emphasizes the relevance of bringing awareness and consciousness regarding the cultural and religious significance of the said Islamic festival.

Source : https://www.gmanetwork.com/regionaltv/news/101254/april-10-2024-a-regular-holiday-in-view-of-eidl-fitr-pbbm-declares/story/

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24 Feb 2024, Balik EDSA! Continue the Struggle for People Power! march led by Malaya Movement NY and Anakbayan Queens, Queens, NY

From Malaya NY:

For two decades, Filipinos lived under authoritarian rule while Marcos and his allies enriched themselves through ownership of Philippine press and industry outlets and through the siphoning of funds from U.S., World Bank, and International Monetary Fund loans. From February 22 to 25, 1986, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) to protest President Ferdinand Marcos and his claim that he had won re-election over Corazon Aquino. This time, though, Filipinos refused to accept this lie. On February 22, citizens took to the streets on EDSA. On the evening of February 25, the U.S. government facilitated Marcos’s escape to Hawaii. Later that same night, protestors stormed Malacañang Palace, exposing the opulent wealth that the Marcos family had amassed during their time in power. Marcos died in Hawaii in 1989 without returning to the Philippines.

[aphroditesknife]

Today marks the 51st anniversary of the enactment of US-backed Martial Law in the Philippines by the late president/dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. One of the darkest days in the history of the country and spanning for about a decade, many human rights violations, killings, tortures, enforced disappearances, military and police abuse of power, economic downfall, environmental damages, famine, media blackout (except for those approved of the regime), and overall corruption. All for the so called "fight against communist insurgency." The Marcos family and their allies basically lived like royalites while the Filipino people suffered.

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. served as the 10th president of the Philippines for 20 years from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial law for nine years from 1972 until 1981 but kept most of his martial law powers until he was deposed in 1986. Under his regime, violence was used to enforce civil control over the citizens of the Philippines, resulting in thousands of documented cases of human rights violations.

But many people to this day continue to refer to this time as the "Golden Age" of the country, that life was good for "law abiding citizens." Here are some numbers that debunks this popular myth.

Data from the image:

Sept. 21, 1972: Date of Proclamation No. 1081 placing the Philippines under martial law.

49: Persons from the Greater Manila Area immediately arrested on Sept. 22, 1972, by the military, among them three senators, three congressmen, two provincial governors, four delegates to the Constitutional Convention and eight newsmen. First on the list was opposition senator and main political rival Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.

Sept. 23, 1972: Press Secretary Francisco Tatad announces the imposition of martial law and reads the Marcos proclamation in a nationwide televised broadcast. Marcos himself went on air at 7 p.m. to formally announce the proclamation

12-4 a.m. – Curfew was put in place

Jan. 17, 1981: Marcos signs Proclamation No. 2045 lifting the implementation of martial law ahead of the first papal visit of Pope John Paul II in February.

107,240: Primary victims of human rights violations during martial law

70,000 people arrested, mostly arbitrarily without warrants of arrests*

34,000 people tortured*

3,240 killed by the military and the police*

*Amnesty International

464: Closed media outlets after declaration of martial law

$683 million: Worth of Marcos assets in various Swiss banks declared as ill-gotten based on a July 2003 the Supreme Court ruling

$5-10 billion: Estimated alleged ill-gotten wealth plundered by the Marcoses during two decades in Malacañang

6,281: Number of Marcos laws from September 1972 to February 1986

2,036 presidential decrees

61 general orders

1,093 executive orders

1,409 proclamations and other issuances

1,525 letters of instructions

157 letters of implementation

Info from image:

Military Power

By the time martial law was in effect, the Philippine Army had an estimated strength of 17,600; the Philippine Navy with 8,000; Philippine Air Force with 9,000; and the Philippine Constabulary with 25,500.

Info from images:

Poverty

Poverty worsened over the course of the Marcos era. Whereas about 4 out of 10 families were poor before Marcos took office, 6 out of 10 families were poor by the end of his rule.

Moreover, as the graph on the left shows, this is a consistent trend across the different regions of the nation, with some regions reaching as high a rate as 7 out of 10 families below the poverty line. Only two regions saw a marginal decrease in the number of poor families: the Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley.

Daily wages of Filipino agricultural workers declined by about 30%, such that if a farmer earned Php 42 per day in 1972, he would only be earning about Php 30 in 1986. The wages of farmers even went as low as nearly half of the pre-Marcos values in 1974, right after the declaration of Martial Law (middle graph).

On the other hand, for skilled and unskilled workers in urban areas, the graph on the right shows the change in their wages from pre-Marcos to EDSA values. Skilled workers are workers with some special knowledge or skill, often having gone to college or technical school; unskilled workers are workers without this level of training.

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Deforestation

In addition to factors relating to the domestic economy, another way of assessing the Marcos regime is through its impacts on the nation’s natural resources and the environment. The graph specifically gives us an idea about how Marcos’s policies affected the country’s forest cover over the course of about 20 years.

Supposedly, about 90% of the Philippines’ 18.7 million hectares of uplands, including more than 11 million hectares officially classified as timberlands, is publicly owned. In practice, fewer than 200 individuals controlled a large fraction of the country’s forests.

In pursuit of economic gains, Marcos and his cronies’ uncontrolled exportation of timber led to a drastic reduction in forest cover. This cascades into dire environmental impacts including flooding, landslides, and even the worldwide phenomenon of global warming.

I could add more to this post, but that would be way too long.

To this day, the Marcos family, their allies, and supporters, paid or not, continue to deny these facts and claim that the Marcos family were good for the Filipino people and the country.

We must continue to remind the people of this dark time in the history, to not let history be erased and be replaced with lies, to remember the sacrifices made by the victims of Martial Law and their families, and to not let history repeat itself.

Never Forget!

Never Again!

sources:

https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/649814-martial-law-by-the-numbers?page=6

https://martiallawmuseum.ph/magaral/martial-law-in-data/

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1167808/fast-facts-the-marcos-martial-law-regime

The Martial Law Museum and the Bantayog ng mga Bayani sites are good places to start reading more about this.

[pannaginip]

The culmination of the bloodless revolt on February 25, 1986, kicked dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos out of Malacañang after an iron-fist rule that lasted more than a decade. His family soon went on exile in Hawaii, an experience that his son Marcos Jr. described as among the darkest days of their lives.

A decades-long project to rehabilitate their family’s image ultimately led to the Marcoses returning to power, capped by Marcos Jr.’s ascent to the presidency in 2022.

For 2024, the Palace downplayed its removal of the EDSA Revolution anniversary from the list of holidays, saying there would be “minimal socio-economic impact in declaring this day as a special non-working holiday since it coincides with the rest day for most workers and laborers.”

This year, democracy advocates are also using the EDSA revolution anniversary commemoration to amplify their opposition to charter change.

The present Constitution was completed months after the 1986 uprising, and ratified through a nationwide plebiscite in February 1987.

It replaced the 1973 Constitution, which helped Marcos justify his prolonged stay in office.

2024 Feb. 13

[wendellcapili]

Former UP Professor of English and Comparative Literature Josefina Dionisio (JD) Constantino (28 March 1920-19 July 2024), known to many as Sr. Teresa Joseph Patrick of Jesus & Mary, OCD, passed away at 4:00 am, on 19 July 2024. She was 104. Sister Teresa is a UP College of Education and Columbia University (English and Comparative Literature) alumna. She was a student of pioneering fictionist and creative writing teacher Paz Marquez Benitez at UP and Pulitzer-winning poet and critic Mark Van Doren at Columbia. Later, she held grants and fellowships at Edinburgh, MIT, and Michigan. In UP, she was Secretary of the University and the Board of Regents under President Vidal Arceo Tan (1951-1955). With Leticia Ramos-Shahani, she developed UP's Comparative Literature program, the only one of its kind in Southeast Asia. Her students include National Artists Amelia Lapeña Bonifacio & Gemino H. Abad, poet Virginia Moreno, Social Weather Stations President Mahar Lagmay, market research pioneer Mercy Abad, Inquirer columnist Belinda Olivarez Cunanan, and former Malacañang Press Secretary and Manila Bulletin Editor-in-Chief Crispulo Icban. She is widely remembered for her critiques on National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin: “The Woman Who Had Two Navels” (review), published in Philippine Studies [vol. 9 no. 4 (1961): 639–650], and “Illusion and Reality in Nick Joaquin,” in Philippine fiction: essays from Philippine studies, 1953-1972 [ ed. Joseph A. Galdón S.J., Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1972: 13-24]. Her other works include The Asian Religious Sensibility and Christian (Carmelite) Spirituality, The Folly is the Glory of the Cross (UP Press, 2010), and Five Letters to St. Teresa (2011). During its formative years, she was a judge for the annual Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature. Before joining the Carmelites, she became an executive of the Development Bank of the Philippines and a Manila Chronicle columnist. Before she passed, she donated her books and archival materials to Ateneo Library of Women's Writings (ALiWW), Old Rizal Library, at the Ateneo de Manila University. 📷 Jesus and Mary of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCD), Carmel of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Gilmore, Quezon City https://lnkd.in/gb2zpGYA

[normalucia]

Don’t be motivated by cash, cocaine, champagne

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte continued her broadsides yesterday against her erstwhile allies, declaring that “leaders should not be motivated by cash, cocaine or champagne… And most certainly, leaders should not be made to hold champagne glasses.”

Duterte also admitted that she and President Marcos have not seen or talked to each other since she resigned from her Cabinet post in June.

“I don’t have a description of my relationship now with President Marcos. We no longer talk to each other. We also no longer see each other,” Duterte said yesterday in separate interviews with SMNI and GMA News.

In a public statement she posted on her personal Facebook page, which was shared by the Office of the Vice President, Duterte mentioned for the second time the word “cocaine.”

It was seen as a reference to accusations by her camp that Marcos is a cocaine user. Her mention of champagne was also seen as a reference to video footage during the diplomatic reception held recently at Malacañang, which showed First Lady Liza Marcos grabbing a champagne glass held by Senate President Francis Escudero, sipping from it and handing it back to him.

In an open letter last Wednesday, Duterte lamented how the government and its officials “continuously” allowed Filipinos to go hungry, live in poverty and remain vulnerable to crimes.

She specifically slammed the government and members of the House of Representatives over supposed inaction on the issues of health, security and foreign interference, especially of the International Criminal Court and their investigation on her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, saying that “Filipinos deserve better.”

Duterte defended her statement, saying that she was neither “pro-administration” nor “anti-administration,” but rather speaking for the welfare of the Filipinos and the country.

Addressing government officials, Duterte said: “Leadership is faithfulness to the oath of office. Leadership is faithful service to the people. Leaders should only say one thing – that ‘it is done.’”

The Vice President also criticized the recent survey of OCTA Research, which showed that fewer people are supportive of her family, claiming that someone must have paid the research group to ask if they are “pro-Marcos” or “pro-Duterte.”

“They should have asked, ‘are you pro-Philippines?’ I’m sure everyone would change their answer to ‘pro-Philippines,’” Duterte said.

Earlier this week, the research group released the results of its June 29 to July 1 survey that found only 16 percent of the respondents identify themselves as “pro-Duterte,” four points down from 20 percent in March.

Meanwhile, those who support the Marcos administration increased by five points from 31 percent to 36 percent.

OCTA Research maintained that it is non-partisan and its surveys are conducted independently.

“Our goal was to try to contribute to conversation on political preference, which is something very hard and challenging to measure,” political analyst and OCTA co-founder Ranjit Rye said in a phone interview with The STAR.

In the same interviews, Duterte said the desire to “perpetuate power” may be the motive behind the attacks on her and her family.

“It’s very obvious that everything you are hearing or seeing that is being done right now – the motive behind is that ‘I no longer want to step down. This (power) will be mine forever,’” Duterte stressed.

[cullenakingirog]

In light of the Malacañang Palace's shit stance, I am going to make it clear. I stand with Palestine. The son of a dictator and his would-be dictator of a vice president does not speak for me.

[bothermenotpls]

It's called joy when you haven't finished all of your readings, and class gets cancelled. Fortunately, class was suspended this afternoon before my 5 pm class. On the other hand, I decided not to work at the office and do all my tasks online at home.

Late this afternoon, I received an email stating that my requested document, urgently needed for my tuition discount, had been released. I immediately went to the office, but while in transit, Kaboom! Malacañang declared a work suspension at 3 pm.

When I arrived at the office, I saw almost everyone in a hurry, leaving — didn't get to accomplish my agenda for today.

August 31, 2023

[ilaw-at-panitik]

From Kristian Kordero on Instagram: The Blood Compact between Legazpi and Sikatuna in 1565 is an unquestioned fact of Philippine history. Officially it is regarded as the “first treaty between the Philippines and a foreign country.” In 1885 Juan Luna painted El Pacto de Sangre, and we take his painting—now proudly displayed in Malacañang—as confirmation of the significance of this event. But was it a treaty? What can we decipher from Luna’s painting? What really transpired between Legazpi and Sikatuna? This talk uncovers the layers of meaning that have shrouded the Blood Compact and argues that it be framed as a nonevent. See you later at 4PM here at Savage Mind: Arts, Books, Cinema for this lecture presentation by Dr. Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. of Ateneo de Manila University. Open to Public.

[hudgenssource]

pattyang_:  It has been such an honour to dress our new Global Tourism Ambassador @vanessahudgens during her visit to the Malacañang palace in a classic Filipiniana ensemble. 🇵🇭 #ForeverPhilippines #VanessaHudgens @publicityasia

[roosterarts]

Seven Days in December - The Philippine December Coup of 1989

Did this little piece for my Dad, who would often tell me stories about the December Coup. At the time he lived near Malacañang Palace (That is the Presidential Palce) and recounts seeing it being bombed by rebel piloted AT-28s. He also remembers that throughout those seven days (December 1st to 7th) the streets and malls were occupied by soldiers from both sides.

As a side note, I actually got to meet General Biazon, one of the generals who remained loyal to the government, back when I was younger. My Dad pointed him out to me while we were out at the mall and at the time the General was retired and was a serving Senator in the Philippine Congress.

Anyways, for those interested to learn more about it, I found this contemporary news report:

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IN PHOTOS: Yesterday, progressive youth groups from different schools in Iloilo along with other organizations and representatives from different sectors gathered in front of the Iloilo Provincial Capitol to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Uprising. The program was then followed by a march in the streets of Iloilo City.

After almost four decades since the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was ousted, another Marcos is back in the highest seat of power in the country, directly following the tyrannical regime of Rodrigo Duterte. 

The Marcos Jr. administration is using its power to continue the fascist legacy of both his direct predecessor Duterte and his father Marcos Sr., hence the declining socio-economic condition of Filipinos due to multiple issues such as the increasing inflation rate and oil price hikes.

Instead of uplifting the plight of the masses, the administration has only managed to worsen the situation by introducing policies that only benefit the ruling class. In addition, people’s campaigns like the call for a national minimum wage and the suspension of value added and excise taxes are disregarded, while legislators focus on the railroading of the Maharlika Wealth Fund, the implementation of Mandatory ROTC, and the prioritization of a constitutional reform, among others.

Not only are the rights of the various sectors of society endangered, but the nation’s history of struggle against the Marcos dictatorship is also being erased. Marcos Jr., with his cronies, is desperate in attempting to change the nation’s history and in covering up the crimes that his family committed against the Filipino people under his father’s tyrannical rule.

Anakbayan Panay stands with the people’s resistance against misinformation and historical distortion and against all other forms of oppression and state-sponsored terrorism. With the return of another Marcos in Malacañang comes the continuation of our struggle for genuine agrarian reform, indigenous peoples’ rights, student welfare and free education for all, climate justice, and Sahod Itaas, Presyo Ibaba.

We call on the Filipino youth to look back to the lessons we have acquired in the long course of our struggle and to keep the fight against tyranny and carry forward the people’s calls towards true national liberation and national democracy.

Makibaka, huwag matakot! Tuloy ang laban!

- Anakbayan Panay, 25 Feb 2023