BAYAN USA

10/02/2026

Tess Lazaro: Secretary of Semi-Colonial Affairs

While Lazaro makes empty speeches that promise “peace” at the UN, her delegation is selling out the Philippines to war profiteers like U.S. Under-Secretary of State Jacob Helberg, one of Trump’s stooges leading the Pax Silica Initiative.

Through Pax Silica, these politicians are promising the U.S. free land in the PH to fuel AI development vital to American warmongering and the surveillance state that targets our migrant communities. And just one month ago, Marcos signed Executive Order 122, to “develop” the country’s critical minerals industry, further plundering the wealth of the Philippine countryside to feed the U.S. supply chain for war.

The Marcos regime continues to be a willing puppet of U.S. warmongering that pushes our people from the homeland and endangers our migrants abroad. And we will continue to fight. In the Philippines and now in the U.S. the Shut Down Pax Silica Network has launched, showing the people want to fight for genuine agrarian reform, national industrialization, and a sovereign nation free from U.S. imperialist rule.

U.S. OUT OF THE PHILIPPINES!

Oppose imperialist AI development and join the Shut Down Pax Silica Campaign Network: tiny.cc/shutdownpaxsilica

09/29/2026

Where is Lazaro? Where is the Philippine Consulate?

Di of Anakbayan USA responds to the empty words of Philippine foreign secretary Tess Lazaro at the UN General Assembly. The Philippine government claims to “protect Filipino migrants” but are only seen colluding with the fascist US state that has illegally detained, abused, and trafficked Filipinos.

Over 200 Filipino cruise ship workers and seafarers have been racially-profiled, harassed, held for questioning and deported at the Ports of Baltimore, Norfolk, Boston and San Diego since June 2025, with no adequate response from the PH government to ensure their safety. Most recently 11 Filipinos were taken from Boston denied from proper due process.

Kuya Raul, a union sanitation worker and resident from Jersey, was detained by ICE in August 2026. The Philippine Consulate promised they would work to prevent Raul’s transfer to another facility, but they failed. Raul was transferred to a detention facility in Mississippi, torn almost a thousand miles away from his family, friends, and allies.

We need to fight for our kababayan because we know Tess Lazaro won’t. Mobilize with us for the upcoming hearings of detained filipinos:
9/30: Ate Veronica & Kuya Raul
10/7: Kuyas Nestor & Desmond
10/9: Kuya Richard

Attend the Defend Migrants Alliance Call on 9/29
RSVP: tinyurl.com/DMASEPT29

And join us in the fight to free all detained migrants on the national day of action 10/7!

JUSTICE FOR FILIPINO MIGRANTS!
SHUT DOWN PAX SILICA!

Join the Shut Down Pax Silica Campaign Network: tiny.cc/shutdownpaxsilica

09/27/2026

👋🗽Liza Marcos, it looks like you had a good time in NYC! Jogging through Central Park, dining with Diplomats, getting a sneak peek of the new iPhone - sanaol may pang-lakwatsa!

😠Meanwhile, millions of Filipinos continue to demand answers about your family’s billions in stolen funds and bogus flood control projects that are failing to protect communities from being submerged or swept away in devastating storms.

💸While you attend Melania’s “Fostering the Future Together” luncheon, your husband is promising the future of the Philippines to foreign interests through Pax Silica, the broader Luzon Economic Corridor, and countless deals with the U.S. military to have its way with our country.

WHILE YOU FROLIC, WE FIGHT - for the interests of the people, for genuine development, for national sovereignty! 💜

09/27/2026

RELEASE CHRISTINA PASION!

ICYMI: On September 22, Vivian Pasion spoke on behalf on ICHRP-US outside the Philippine Consulate, calling for the release of her wife Christina Pasion exposing the US-Marcos regime as the real terrorists arbitrarily arresting and detaining human rights advocates!

Though this UNGA aims to "restore trust", it is clear that the US imperialists and their allies are unworthy of the people's trust as they continue to back fascist repression by the Marcos regime. It is Christina and others like her, not the corrupt heads of state, that genuinely serve the interests of the people. Christina is an example of what it means to enliven the mass movement, by returning home to learn and work among the farmers and peasant masses.

SINO, SINO, SINO ANG TERORISTA?
ANG US, SI MARCOS, SILA ANG TERORISTA!

09/27/2026

‼️Nieves, Chairperson of BAYAN USA asks: who are the real national heroes of the Filipino people?

🚫It is not the corrupt and traitorous government officials like DFA Secretary Tess Lazaro or DENR Secretary Juan Miguel Cuna, who gathered in New York this week for the UN General Assembly. Nor is it Marcos Jr himself, the fascist lapdog to U.S. imperialism.

🙌 It is the Filipino people themselves who are the true heroes and advancing our society! Filipino migrants struggling against unjust detention, Aeta indigenous communities resisting displacement from the U.S. Pax Silica AI initiative. The fighters in the mountains, standing in the way of total foreign domination and plunder. These are the real heroes, who are fighting for Philippine sovereignty!

So today, we demand from the Philippine government:
1. Release Christina Pasion! Justice for Gordon - end state repression!
2. Independent investigation of the Toboso Massacre now!
3. Release and protect all unjustly detained Filipinos!
4. Withdraw from Pax Silica!

➡️Get involved and join us for the No to War and Plunder Week of Action - Sept 20-27th! Join us under the banner: No to War and Plunder, Fight for Peoples’ Rights, National Sovereignty, and Genuine Development.

Endorse the week of action: tinyurl.com/2026UNGA-WOA

Read the Points of Unity & sign on to join the Shut Down Pax Silica campaign network: tiny.cc/shutdownpaxsilica

09/26/2026

⚠️ ACTION ALERT: PH government officials - we demand answers!

All week long the PH delegation at the UN has refused to respond to the genuine concerns of the people: where is the ATN? Why are you selling out the country’s natural resources? Nothing.

🗣️ We are calling on the people to engage in a social media barrage so our demands are loud and clear to ensure we cannot be ignored.

📷 Take a selfie with the demands, send the demands to government officials over social media, and change your profile picture to one of the demand cards!

09/26/2026

Traitorous Philippine diplomats have nowhere to hide in NYC!

Enrique Manalo is “doing a lot more” than us. He is selling out the resources of the Philippines to U.S. companies and investors through initiatives like Pax Silica and the Luzon Economic Corridor, all to line the pockets of local ruling elite, including himself, and foreign capitalists.

Pax Silica promises the U.S. and its corporations free land and mineral wealth in the Philippines to build an AI hub, while displacing indigenous people and farmers and making the archipelago a target for war.

Wherever the people resist the plunder of their land, they are repressed through fascist state violence, armed and trained by the U.S. That is why the Philippines is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for land defenders.

As the Philippines speaks at the UN on the 26th, we demand from PH officials:
1. Release Christina Pasion! Justice for Gordon - end state repression!
2. Independent investigation of the Toboso Massacre now!
3. Release and protect all unjustly detained Filipinos!
4. Withdraw from Pax Silica!

No to War and Plunder! Endorse the week of action: tinyurl.com/2026UNGA-WOA

09/26/2026

‼️ Luz Ocampo of BAYAN USA on B**g B**g Marcos Jr.’s Video at the Opening of the UN General Assembly 81:

🗣️ “Marcos Jr. could use a reality check on what the quality of life of the Filipino people looks like under his administration; millions of Filipinos are starving and displaced through yet another typhoon season. Meanwhile, he is striking economic deals like Pax Silica that will intensify exploitative employment so the US military and foreign corporations can turn Central Luzon into a factory for Trump’s AI-powered military build-up against China.”

“Philippine society will not progress so long as spineless bureaucrat capitalists like Marcos willingly sell out the people and land on a silver platter to the U.S. -on the anniversary of Martial Law enacted by his dictator father, no less! It is precisely this illusion of so-called progress that drives the masses closer to the struggle for National Democracy.”

🔻FIGHT FOR PEOPLES’ RIGHTS, NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY & GENUINE DEVELOPMENT!

🔗Endorse the week of action: tinyurl.com/2026UNGA-WOA

09/25/2026