NOT ONLY US flags will be burned along Commonwealth avenue on October
18 but also a 6-meter long cockroach effigy of Bush named "Mr.
Nudnik". "Nudnik" according to Thesaurus dictionary
is a "nuisance", "annoyance", or a "pest".
Sanlakas members from the Far Eastern University's fine arts and architecture
department are the ones in charge for Mr. Nudnik's construction.
Mr. Nudnik and US President George Bush, according to the members
of the militant groups Sanlakas and the Partido ng Manggagawa (PM),
are one and the same pest. The preparation of this cockroach effigy
is in line with the two groups' anti- "October's Pest" campaign
in relation to the coming visit of Bush.
"Mr. Bush is coming to town without the goods Malacanang is
basking about. What he has rather, is a list of things that GMA must
have to conform with regards to his war on terror and the US policies
on globalization," Sanlakas President Wilson Fortaleza said.
Bush Busters
Meanwhile, calling themselves as "Bush Busters", the Action
Committee for the Bush visit of the Alternative People's Summit, yesterday
announced their weeklong plan of actions against the Bush visit. In
a press conference, representatives of Akbayan, Alab-Katipunan, Bukluran
ng Manggagawang Pilipino, Freedom from Debt Coalition, Kilusan para
sa Pambansang Demokrasya, Kilusang Mangingisda, Partido ng Manggagawa,
Philippines-Cuba Cultural and Friendship Association, and Sanlakas
announced that they will join forces in anti-Bush actions starting
October 15, 17 and 18.
UP President Francisco "Dodong" Nemenzo, President of the
Philippines- Cuba Cultural and Friendship Association has expressed
deep concern and alarm about the latest October 10 policies of President
George Bush in relation to Cuba like the tightening of travel restrictions
to Cuba, encouraging Cubans to leave their homeland and come to the
US and the setting up of a Commission for the Assistance to Free Cuba.
Nemenzo said such plan, "is interventionist and does not conform
to international norms of equal relations among nations and respect
for another nation's sovereignty and right to self determination."
He called on all nationalists and progressives in the country to
use the opportunity of George Bush's visit to the country to voice
their protest against the US government's policies towards Cuba.
The Alternative People's Summit is now initially being composed of
more than 50 different people's organizations, coalitions and formations
that have come together for a common cause of building a better and
alternative Philippines from the grassroots.
