More than a hundred Filipinos and their allies rallied outside the Philippines consulate in New York City on July 23. They were protesting P
By Stephen Millies
A worker at Jollibee — a Filipino-owned fast food chain — described how when he suffered second-degree burns as a cook, he had to keep working to avoid being fired. Workers at the Jollibee restaurant in Journal Square, Jersey City, have been fired for organizing against low-paid, dangerous working conditions.
It’s these sweatshop owners and big landlords that are the biggest supporters of the Marcos-Duterte regime.
As a speaker from the New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines pointed out, it’s the Pentagon that’s the real power in the country. The U.S. is now at nine military bases in the supposedly sovereign Philippines.
