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YUPEACE
YuPeace Lambasts
Bush,
Launches 1 M Signature Campaign
01 February 2002
YuPeace, an
alliance of about 30 youth organizations formed after the September
11 attacks, today slammed the State of the Union Address of US President
George W. Bush delivered last Wednesday due to its “contents
disrespectful to our national sovereignty and to our country itself”.
Ryan Silverio,
spokesperson of the group, said, “Frustrated with the still
failed capture of Osama Bin Laden of his over-hyped war against
terrorism, Bush is looking for a trophy here in the Philippines.”
“He is
very optimistic that they can pound the Abu Sayyaf and collar Janjalani
thinking that this could cloak their blunder in tracking where Bin
Laden is now staying.”
The alliance
is also planning to launch their 1 Million Signatures against the
Balikatan Exercises Campaign before the end of this week to further
register the youth’s rejection of the deployment of US troops
in the Philippines.
Silverio further
said:“If there is any sector that is very much worried with
all that is happening now, it is the youth sector. With all its
idealism, it is the initiator and at the forefront of the struggle
for the ejection of the US Bases.”
“We are
also very alarmed that this so-called Balikatan military exercises
could result to more human rights violations as with the US military
is identified with. Besides, if this is really just a training exercises,
why do it in a combat zone like Basilan?”
YuPeace also
joined the Peace Camp sponsored anti-Balikatan rally this afternoon
at the US Embassy. They also vowed to launch a series of youth mass
actions “until the government ejects the American troops”.
Aside from Silverio’s
Amnesty International- Human Rights Youth Action Network (AI-HRYAN),
YuPeace members include Sanlakas Youth, Katipunan ng mga Anak ng
Manggagawang Pilipino (KAMPI), Liga ng Sosyalistang Kabataan (LSK),
Youth for Nationalism and Democracy (YND), Teatrong Bayan, Pluma
Lex Majores, Ang Pamantasan Student Publication, Integrated Muslim
Students Associations of the Philippines (IMUSTAPHIL), Society for
Homosexual Emergence (SHE), Guerilla Art Movement (GAM), Unyon ng
Progresibong Mag-aaral (UPM), Sandigan Party Alliance (SPA), Mag-aaral
Kaisa ng Sambayanan (MAGKAISA), Bukluran Student Alliance (BSA)
and other youth organizations, student councils, SKs and student
publications.
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