BBM AT SARA: MGA SALOT SA BAYAN, ALIS DIYAN!
KARAPATAN Public Information
PRESS RELEASE
November 30, 2025
Reference: Cristina Palabay, KARAPATAN secretary general, 09173162831
KARAPATAN Public Information Desk, 09189790580
BBM AT SARA: MGA SALOT SA BAYAN, ALIS DIYAN!
KARAPATAN joins legions heeding calls from the Kilusang Bayan Kontra Kurakot (KBKK), Taumbayan Ayaw sa Magnanakaw Network Alliance (TAMA NA) and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) to flood Luneta, Manila and other major cities and provinces on November 30th with another big anti-corruption protest to demand accountability for large-scale bureaucratic corruption and urgently call for systemic change.
In light of recent revelations made by former Rep. Zaldy Co, the people will not only be expressing their anger against corruption but demand genuine, meaningful changes in governance all the way to the top.
While Co himself should be made accountable for his role in massive corruption, his revelations point to no less than Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the apex of the monstrous system of corruption that has emptied the public coffers of hundreds of billions of pesos worth of kickbacks from ghost and substandard infrastructure projects. Co has confirmed what the Makabayan bloc in Congress have long exposed — that it is Marcos Jr.’s authorization of unprogrammed allocations and budgetary insertions that have made many of these anomalies possible.
Yet the ongoing investigations are designed to deflect attention from the top bureaucrat capitalist himself who has stolen suitcases full of the people’s money. Marcos Jr. is attempting to mollify the people’s indignation by highlighting the arrest of government engineers linked to the flood control anomalies and the upcoming apprehension of other lower-ranking officials. But these are small fry, compared to the real big-time operators in Malacanang.
Day by day, the government-sponsored investigations lose credibility as the biggest and most corrupt politicos of them all are being deliberately spared.
The people will have none of it.
The angry legions of Filipinos who will flood Luneta, major cities and provinces, as well as other countries, are acutely aware that Marcos Jr.’s constitutional successor Sara Duterte is just as rotten to the core with her unexplained use of hundreds of millions of pesos of confidential and intelligence funds. They are likewise aware that many of the senators and congressmen, who are allies of both Marcos and Duterte, have undeniable links to corruption.
When the people flood Luneta in their numbers this November 30th, there will not only be an outpouring of outrage but a deluge of demands for a decisive end to the insidious evil of systemic corruption. It is systemic corruption that has siphoned away funds and gravely deprived the masses of affordable food, education, health care, housing, mass transport, sound public infrastructure and many other basic rights.
It would be a grievous crime to suppress the people’s right to express their rage and demand real, meaningful changes from this government that has oppressed, exploited and failed them at every turn.
To Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte, the King and Queen of Corruption, the people cry:
MGA SALOT SA BAYAN, ALIS DIYAN!
SOBRA NA, PALITAN NA!
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