ACC-Philippines: Estado, Gobyerno, Pahirap Lang sa Tao!
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
"Kapit-bisig!" The cry that cut the air of hostility, and awakened spirits of strength and solidarity within us. It means "linking arms". When I shouted these words, my comrades shouted these, too. When six traffic enforcers and three cops began pushing us to the sidelines and attempted to de-mask us, we turned our backs on them, pointed our asses towards them and linked arms. It was a spontaneous show of resistance. All seven or eight comrades in Black Bloc guises tried as hard as we could to stand our ground, but police training and the psychology of the gun were too much. We lost strength, and fell….

A 'Second Front' in the Philippines
Saturday, March 02 2002
MANILA -- The Bush Administration's opening of a so-called second front against terrorism in the Philippines has stunned people here with its swiftness. Less than three weeks after the decision was jointly announced by Washington and Manila in early January, the first wave of US troops landed in Zamboanga City, about 460 nautical miles south of the Philippine capital. The reality of this new front in another distant land was brought home to many Americans by the crash of a US helicopter in treacherous waters on February 22. Officially tagged an accident, the tragedy took the lives of ten US soldiers, eight of whom belonged to an elite Special Forces unit.

Unease Grows in Philippines on U.S. Forces
Saturday, January 19 2002
MANILA, Jan. 18 A political firestorm has erupted in the Philippines over the impending arrival of some 650 American soldiers dispatched to help battle an Islamic insurgency. A few senators here are even demanding the impeachment of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, only a year into her term, and her vice president has said he feels uneasy about the policy.

Philippine Anarchist Action Against McDonalds
Tuesday, October 16, 2001
ACC Philippines, a network of autonomous activists conducted parallel actions yesterday, O16 in light of the commemmoration of the World Food Day and Int'l Day of Action Against Mcdonalds. ACC activists picketed a McDonald's branch in Quezon City while giving leaflets and later joined the broad mobilization of peasants against the GATT AoA.

Philippine Anarchist Action against the War
Tuesday, October 2, 2001
As part of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence Philippines call for non-violent direct action against the war promoted by the US government, Food not Bombs and the rest of ACC conducted a Food not Bombs vegetarian community dinner this Saturday, September 29, 7 PM in Luneta Park in Manila, Philippines, a sanctuary of the country's homeless and hungry people.

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A U.S. Special Forces soldier, right, walks with his Filipino counterpart inside the Philippine Special Forces camp in Lumbang village, Isabela town, on Basilan island, southern Philippines Sunday, March 24, 2002. Government troops are currently on the pursuit of the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf and U.S. troops have come to the area to conduct joint training exercises on counter-terrorism. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

A U.S. Special Forces soldier keeps guard as others load wooden boards on a truck in Isabela town, Basilan island southern Philippines Friday, March 22, 2002. U.S. troops are in Basilan island and nearby Zamboanga province as part of a joint counter-terrorism military exercise aimed at destroying the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf, believed to have a links to the al-Qaida terror network. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Militant workers display umbrellas painted with a slogan during a rally Friday, March 22, 2002 near the U.S. Embassy in Manila. The workers opposed the ongoing joint military exercise between the Philippines and the United States in the southern part of the country and the impending arrival next month of additional American troops. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

A U.S. Special Forces soldier leads Filipino workers to an area which they will clean in Tabiawan army base in Basilan island, southern Philippines on Thursday March 21, 2002. Hundreds of U.S. servicemen are now in Zamboanga province and Basilan island as they participate in a joint military counterterrorism exercise aimed at destroying the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf, linked to at the al-Qaida terror network. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Protesters, mostly women, light candles outside the US Embassy in Manila during a rally Tuesday March 19, 2002 against the presence of hundreds of U.S. troops participating in the ongoing joint military exercises between the Philippines and the U.S. The U.S. troops are here for six months for the exercise which is aimed primarily at training Philippine soldiers in their fight against the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group who are still holding an American missionary couple hostage and a Filipino nurse for 10 months now. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Protesters from the overseas Filipino workers organization, Migrante, burn a kite shaped like a missile during a rally at the U.S. Embassy in Manila in simultaneous protests with other migrant workers and supporters in some foreign cities on Sunday, March 17, 2002, against the ongoing six-month joint U.S.-Philippines military exercise south of the country. The military exercises in southern Philippines is aimed at training Filipino soldiers to wipe out the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf Group who are still holding an American missionary couple hostage and a Filipino nurse for 10 months now. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)