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Month: June 2025

ABOLISYON! – Defend the Marihangin 10 and Ka Ondo: Carcerality and Dispossession in Bugsuk

Posted on 02/06/2025 by muntjac

Forwarded from: https://bandilangitim.xyz/library/abolisyon-defend-the-marihangin-10-and-ka-ondo-en

For several years now, the Indigenous peoples and surrounding communities of Bugsuk in Southern Palawan have been at the forefront of combating luxury tourism projects by the San Miguel Corporation (SMC). In the latest episode, the people of Marihangin, Bugsuk, Palawan have been resisting the latest attack on their land that has been ongoing for several weeks now. SMC has repeatedly hired armed goons from the Jewelmer Corporation and JMV Security Services to invade and pillage land in sitio Marihangin for their nefarious project. SMC is aided and abetted by the Philippine National Police (PNP), the courts, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in a holy alliance to steal the ancestral domains of the Molbog, Palaw’an, and Cagayanen peoples of Bugsuk. To this end, the State incarcerated and charged the Marihangin 10, leaders in the Marihangin community, on charges of “grave coercion” for defending their lands from the goons of former NCIP executive Caesar Ortega and the SMC’s own Ramon S. Ang.

This holy alliance between the oligarchs, moneymen, and the bureaucrats conspires to build a luxury resort on the corpses of the brave people of Marihangin. Abolitionists understand that the systems of police, prisons, and courts—whole systems and logics of control known as carcerality—function to preserve the order of profit and domination. As abolitionists, we do not call on the government to preserve the “rule of law,” for it is the very rule of law that arrested and charged the Marihangin 10 and the arrest of Oscar “Ondo” Pelayo, community leader fighting against the theft of their land. The “rule of law” stands for the theft of land, for the continuing of the logics of colonization upon Indigenous communities. We call for not only the dropping of charges on ka Ondo Pelayo and the Marihangin 10, but for the Filipino people to resist against the regime of policing and incarceration.

This regime of policing and incarceration was put in place by colonization. Indeed, the systems of police and prisons the American colonial government instituted in the Philippines was so effective, it was reimplemented in the United States to crush the worker’s movement there. Colonization has institutionalized structures of policing and incarceration in this country. As post-colonized inhabitants of this archipelago, we understand that decolonization will not be complete until the institutions of colonization—the state, the police, the prisons, the corporations—are abolished, and the lands returned to their tillers and Indigenous stewards.

The episodes of land-grabbing in Bugsuk has been ongoing since the Marcos dictatorship and the injustice will continue as long as the systems of injustice and carcerality remain.

Hands off Bugsuk! Drop all charges against the Marihangin 10 and ka Ondo!

Landback! Decolonization now! Defend the land stewards!

Buwagin ang kapulisan! — Abolish the police!

Gibain ang mga kulungan! — Tear down the prisons!

Call For Articles – Issue 3: Spirituality

Posted on 01/06/2025 by muntjac

Call For Articles

Issue 3: Spirituality

 

We’re looking for articles, poetry, prose, interviews*, direct responses to other pieces of writing and book/film reviews on Spirituality written by Global Majority** Anarchists and anti-authoritarians. The window for submissions will close on the 1st of October and the magazine will be released on Anarchist Martyrs Night (November 11th)***

 

A conflicting relationship between religion, mysticism, spirituality and anarchism has always existed. We’ve seen it play out so many times online, in organising spaces and the movements we’re a part of. Some find it incompatible with anarchist thought, some have beliefs rooted in (non) otherworldly forces without needing religion to explain it, whilst others find the spectra of religious and spiritual practices to be parallel to their anarchist ideals.

 

Few publications have considered the relationship between the compatibility and incompatibility of these ideologies, but even more so. none have ever created the space for exploration of all positions in between.

 

We encourage submissions of all – from the believers and non-believers, the practicing, the skeptical to outright disillusioned. The aim of this issue is to inspire critical thought and discussion. Areas of focus can include, but are not limited to: religious/spiritual/mystic anarchism, anarchist Abrahamic religious interpretations, parallels between anarchism and religion/spirituality/mysticism and power, anarchist theology etc.

 

Submissions are welcome in any language as long as we can translate it using online tools or if you’re happy to provide it in both English and another language. You do NOT need to write in an academic register. There is no minimum length, but a maximum would be around 4000 words, anything larger than that might be better off as an individual zine. (Which we’d love to help with!)

 

Email us at fawnarchy@grrlz.net [Feel free to use https://tempr.email/]

or

Contact us on Signal @ muntjac161.96

 

We prefer it when people send us their submission as plain text inside of an email or Signal DM (rather than attaching a cryptpad, Google Drive, Word document, Open Office file of ZIP of your submission.) as this takes more time to re-format and slows down our emails.

 

Our only advice would be to be honest, to be vulnerable. We, as a group vary widely: Some of us were raised in religious conservative communities in the diaspora here in England and as such, some of us walked away from spirituality as we grew older, some of us are converts, some of us are true believers, some of us are members of persecuted Ethno-Religious groups who are only here because of oppression by regional hegemonic powers.

 

Some of us have altars and some of us would refuse to bow before one.

 

*We can conduct these if you ask nicely and give us enough time and context.

**Global Majority in this context refers to the people(s) who make up the majority of the world’s population, i.e. everyone but white people.

***”The Galleanists commemorated three holidays each year: the anniversary of the start of the Paris Commune on March 18, May Day, and the anniversary of the Haymarket executions on November 11. Some of us have been commemorating November 11 as Anarchist Martyrs’ Night for the past four years, and we propose a more widespread revival of this tradition within the anarchist galaxy. Gather with friends, read aloud the words of our anarchist ancestors who died for Anarchy but more importantly those who lived for it, make offerings of fire and beauty.”

[From T*inderbox, Issue 2, “Ten Theses on Spiritual Anarchy”]

https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/submissions

"Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote-begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals."

Lucy Parsons - The Principles Of Anarchism, 1905

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