05/07/2026
JUSTICE FOR THE NEGROS 19! DEFEND THE LAND & STOP THE ATTACKS! ✊❤️🔥
We are infuriated, in grief, and compelled to take action upon learning about the massacre of the Negros 19 and the displacement of hundreds of residents in Toboso, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
Two American comrades were killed, including Bay Area kasama Lyle Prijoles, who many East Bay DSA members knew. Other civilians killed were youth, residents, and organizers reporting on the state violence in Negros and the livelihood of farmers.
East Bay DSA shares the same demands as the International Committee of Human Rights in the Philippines:
1. Hold an immediate and independent investigation into the AFP’s massacre on April 19th in Negros Occidental;
2. Ensure the victims’ families, as well as their lawyers and human rights advocates, be given full access to their loved ones’ remains without any threat, interrogation, harm, intimidation;
3. End U.S. support and funding for the Marcos Jr. administration, as well as U.S. military aid to the Philippines.
You can sign a petition to amplify these demands to the U.S. State Dept. & U.S. Embassy in the Philippines at tinyurl.com/negros19-petition ✅
May we hold their lives and memories close, and deepen our organizing and solidarity to ending oppression in the Philippines and ending the U.S. war machine ✊
