#malacañang

[floralitesushi]

The Marcos siblings portrayers posing with the background painting of the former late President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. and First Lady Imelda R. Marcos.

[angelhandstattoo]

Malacañan Palace, Manila - We were privileged to be given a tour of the historic facilities and living quarters of the serving President (currently “Bongbong” Marcos, son of Ferdinand and Imelda, who also grew up in Malacañan Palace) and it did not disappoint! I bought my own barong to wear for the occasion, and was fascinated with the history preserved within. Our guide was passionate and knowledgeable, and the rooms were most impressive. We ended the tour with a lovely lunch at Cabel @bycabel.ph - a wonderful new eatery in the Malacañang area 🇵🇭🎖️🍲 . . @joatwood @zaneta.encarnacion @audie.decastro @i.am.pam @livingcatrina #philippines #malacañang #malacañanpalace #manila #kapwatour2023 #visitphilippines #travelphilippines #palace #palacetour #filipino #filipina #filipinoamerican #sandiegofilipinos #barong #imeldamarcos #coryaquino #filipinohistory #mestiza #tattooer #ladytattooers #filipinatattooartist #filipinotattooartist #pinay (at Malacañang Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYtqCLN6dW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nablah]

so my neighbor diktajunior in malacañang was apparently celebrating dear old daddy's bday i hope they all die

[themagical1sa]

Its totally okay that you replied okay :) sometimes we just aren't in the mood to reply (I had this ask and I was like I'll answer it tmr and to this I have not answered it XDD)

Also living hell of a country resonates with me. There is a part of me that is constantly afraid while living in this country. My family and I are a minority and well,,,it feels like I hear violent acts done everyday so there seems to be this deep seated fear in me now.

(it wasn't so bad before but I guess the country follows its government. if the government heads are violent the country follows)

Toxicity is something I am more or less familiar with I think. But i dont wanna talk about it in case my parents are toxic. I dont want to think about that XDD

BUT OMG YOUR ART IS SO PRETTY!! I LOVE THEm SO MUCH!! THE COLOURS!! THE SKETCHES!! THE MODELS!! SO PRETTY!!

up to something huh 👀 👀 I cant help but wonder

I'm doing okay :))) School has told is submit all our copies on the 2nd so I am just praying for my shoulders on that day. (I haven't completed 4 copies yet ;-;) AND my midterms are gonna start on the 17th. woooo *cries*

BUT ANYHOO! everything is else is going more or less good, teachers day is coming up so I'm thinking I'm gonna make cookies but hey lets see if I go through with it :)

Good to hear you're doing okay! 😌

How was Teachers' Day? Did you get to make cookies or did you end up doing something else entirely? o(>▽<)o

Thank you for your comments on my art! I'm super glad to hear that — I haven't drawn as properly as I did for a loooong while. January to early June has been such a blur... I guess mourning and processing the death of a loved one does that, huh? Not to mention the stress of the national elections–

–BUT either way, I've been able to grow out of it somehow. At this point I just want to make my lola proud of me, even if from heaven. 🥹

[pretty rambly about my late lola; you can skip!] Speaking of my late lola, I had a haircut last July a couple weeks before my birthday — I decided on a wolf cut. It promoted my natural wavy hair which was a lot like her natural wavy-curly hair (I used to have my hair straightened via rebonding). A few days later, my dad had a dream where lola (aka his mom) told him about how she liked my hair. On the morning of my birthday, my grandmother came to me in a dream, gently patting my head and telling me how pretty I was. I even quote, "Ang ganda ng apo ko." (Tagalog: My granddaughter is so pretty.) 🥹🥹🥹 💗💗💗

You 🤝 Me living in a hell of a country and government

We sure do live in scary times, Anza... so here's to our survival against the odds! 🍹🍹

[thebaronmunchausen]

[orangerainforest]

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[jrbustamante]

Christmas Lunch at Malacañang Palace

Closing 2023 with a sumptuous Christmas lunch at the palace with a special message from  Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. himself is definitely something to remember. Especially since it was a first Malacañang Palace event for me. I did not hesitate to accept the invitation to meet up and celebrate the festive occasion with fellow supporters and our hardworking leader.  Aside from learning different…

[buckybarnesthehotshot]

how am I to take pity on a family who ran from their crimes with designer luggage

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24 Feb 2024, Balik EDSA! Continue the Struggle for People Power! march led by Malaya Movement NY and Anakbayan Queens, Queens, NY

From Malaya NY:

For two decades, Filipinos lived under authoritarian rule while Marcos and his allies enriched themselves through ownership of Philippine press and industry outlets and through the siphoning of funds from U.S., World Bank, and International Monetary Fund loans. From February 22 to 25, 1986, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) to protest President Ferdinand Marcos and his claim that he had won re-election over Corazon Aquino. This time, though, Filipinos refused to accept this lie. On February 22, citizens took to the streets on EDSA. On the evening of February 25, the U.S. government facilitated Marcos’s escape to Hawaii. Later that same night, protestors stormed Malacañang Palace, exposing the opulent wealth that the Marcos family had amassed during their time in power. Marcos died in Hawaii in 1989 without returning to the Philippines.

[ask-emilz-de-philz]

Hadji: ''Eid Mubarak! Wishing you and your family a prosperous Eid-ul-Fitr filled with love, laughter, and togetherness.''

April 10, 2024 a regular holiday in view of Eid’l Fitr, PBBM declares

In observance of Eid’l Fitr, the Islamic festival that marks the end of the month-long Ramadan, President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. has declared Wednesday, April 10, 2024 as a regular holiday throughout the country.

Through Proclamation No. 514 dated April 4, 2024, Malacañang formally announced the said national holiday in order to pay respects to the Muslim Filipino community and their commemoration of Ramadan’s end.

This is also to “allow the entire Filipino nation to join their Muslim brothers and sisters in peace and harmony in the observance and celebration of Eid’l Fitr.” The proclamation also emphasizes the relevance of bringing awareness and consciousness regarding the cultural and religious significance of the said Islamic festival.

Source : https://www.gmanetwork.com/regionaltv/news/101254/april-10-2024-a-regular-holiday-in-view-of-eidl-fitr-pbbm-declares/story/

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[aphroditesknife]

Today marks the 51st anniversary of the enactment of US-backed Martial Law in the Philippines by the late president/dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. One of the darkest days in the history of the country and spanning for about a decade, many human rights violations, killings, tortures, enforced disappearances, military and police abuse of power, economic downfall, environmental damages, famine, media blackout (except for those approved of the regime), and overall corruption. All for the so called "fight against communist insurgency." The Marcos family and their allies basically lived like royalites while the Filipino people suffered.

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. served as the 10th president of the Philippines for 20 years from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial law for nine years from 1972 until 1981 but kept most of his martial law powers until he was deposed in 1986. Under his regime, violence was used to enforce civil control over the citizens of the Philippines, resulting in thousands of documented cases of human rights violations.

But many people to this day continue to refer to this time as the "Golden Age" of the country, that life was good for "law abiding citizens." Here are some numbers that debunks this popular myth.

Data from the image:

Sept. 21, 1972: Date of Proclamation No. 1081 placing the Philippines under martial law.

49: Persons from the Greater Manila Area immediately arrested on Sept. 22, 1972, by the military, among them three senators, three congressmen, two provincial governors, four delegates to the Constitutional Convention and eight newsmen. First on the list was opposition senator and main political rival Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.

Sept. 23, 1972: Press Secretary Francisco Tatad announces the imposition of martial law and reads the Marcos proclamation in a nationwide televised broadcast. Marcos himself went on air at 7 p.m. to formally announce the proclamation

12-4 a.m. – Curfew was put in place

Jan. 17, 1981: Marcos signs Proclamation No. 2045 lifting the implementation of martial law ahead of the first papal visit of Pope John Paul II in February.

107,240: Primary victims of human rights violations during martial law

70,000 people arrested, mostly arbitrarily without warrants of arrests*

34,000 people tortured*

3,240 killed by the military and the police*

*Amnesty International

464: Closed media outlets after declaration of martial law

$683 million: Worth of Marcos assets in various Swiss banks declared as ill-gotten based on a July 2003 the Supreme Court ruling

$5-10 billion: Estimated alleged ill-gotten wealth plundered by the Marcoses during two decades in Malacañang

6,281: Number of Marcos laws from September 1972 to February 1986

2,036 presidential decrees

61 general orders

1,093 executive orders

1,409 proclamations and other issuances

1,525 letters of instructions

157 letters of implementation

Info from image:

Military Power

By the time martial law was in effect, the Philippine Army had an estimated strength of 17,600; the Philippine Navy with 8,000; Philippine Air Force with 9,000; and the Philippine Constabulary with 25,500.

Info from images:

Poverty

Poverty worsened over the course of the Marcos era. Whereas about 4 out of 10 families were poor before Marcos took office, 6 out of 10 families were poor by the end of his rule.

Moreover, as the graph on the left shows, this is a consistent trend across the different regions of the nation, with some regions reaching as high a rate as 7 out of 10 families below the poverty line. Only two regions saw a marginal decrease in the number of poor families: the Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley.

Daily wages of Filipino agricultural workers declined by about 30%, such that if a farmer earned Php 42 per day in 1972, he would only be earning about Php 30 in 1986. The wages of farmers even went as low as nearly half of the pre-Marcos values in 1974, right after the declaration of Martial Law (middle graph).

On the other hand, for skilled and unskilled workers in urban areas, the graph on the right shows the change in their wages from pre-Marcos to EDSA values. Skilled workers are workers with some special knowledge or skill, often having gone to college or technical school; unskilled workers are workers without this level of training.

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Deforestation

In addition to factors relating to the domestic economy, another way of assessing the Marcos regime is through its impacts on the nation’s natural resources and the environment. The graph specifically gives us an idea about how Marcos’s policies affected the country’s forest cover over the course of about 20 years.

Supposedly, about 90% of the Philippines’ 18.7 million hectares of uplands, including more than 11 million hectares officially classified as timberlands, is publicly owned. In practice, fewer than 200 individuals controlled a large fraction of the country’s forests.

In pursuit of economic gains, Marcos and his cronies’ uncontrolled exportation of timber led to a drastic reduction in forest cover. This cascades into dire environmental impacts including flooding, landslides, and even the worldwide phenomenon of global warming.

I could add more to this post, but that would be way too long.

To this day, the Marcos family, their allies, and supporters, paid or not, continue to deny these facts and claim that the Marcos family were good for the Filipino people and the country.

We must continue to remind the people of this dark time in the history, to not let history be erased and be replaced with lies, to remember the sacrifices made by the victims of Martial Law and their families, and to not let history repeat itself.

Never Forget!

Never Again!

sources:

https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/649814-martial-law-by-the-numbers?page=6

https://martiallawmuseum.ph/magaral/martial-law-in-data/

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1167808/fast-facts-the-marcos-martial-law-regime

The Martial Law Museum and the Bantayog ng mga Bayani sites are good places to start reading more about this.

[pannaginip]

The culmination of the bloodless revolt on February 25, 1986, kicked dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos out of Malacañang after an iron-fist rule that lasted more than a decade. His family soon went on exile in Hawaii, an experience that his son Marcos Jr. described as among the darkest days of their lives.

A decades-long project to rehabilitate their family’s image ultimately led to the Marcoses returning to power, capped by Marcos Jr.’s ascent to the presidency in 2022.

For 2024, the Palace downplayed its removal of the EDSA Revolution anniversary from the list of holidays, saying there would be “minimal socio-economic impact in declaring this day as a special non-working holiday since it coincides with the rest day for most workers and laborers.”

This year, democracy advocates are also using the EDSA revolution anniversary commemoration to amplify their opposition to charter change.

The present Constitution was completed months after the 1986 uprising, and ratified through a nationwide plebiscite in February 1987.

It replaced the 1973 Constitution, which helped Marcos justify his prolonged stay in office.

2024 Feb. 13

[apopcornkernel]

In 1986, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from the Philippine presidency in the People Power Revolution. He and his family fled the country and were exiled to Hawaii. 36 years later, his eldest son is elected president in one of the dirtiest elections in our history, with countless reports of broken vote-counting machines, torn ballots, pre-shaded ballots, and election day violence that even resulted in deaths.

To this day, his family continues to deny the human rights violations committed under his father’s martial law, and refuse to return their billions of stolen wealth. They have invested into a decades-long campaign to distort history and restore the reputation of their patriarch’s regime, claiming that under Ferdinand Marcos the Philippines had experienced a “golden era”, and in doing so, they have successfully scammed their way back into Malacañang (the presidential seat of power equivalent to the White House).

[cullenakingirog]

In light of the Malacañang Palace's shit stance, I am going to make it clear. I stand with Palestine. The son of a dictator and his would-be dictator of a vice president does not speak for me.

[bothermenotpls]

It's called joy when you haven't finished all of your readings, and class gets cancelled. Fortunately, class was suspended this afternoon before my 5 pm class. On the other hand, I decided not to work at the office and do all my tasks online at home.

Late this afternoon, I received an email stating that my requested document, urgently needed for my tuition discount, had been released. I immediately went to the office, but while in transit, Kaboom! Malacañang declared a work suspension at 3 pm.

When I arrived at the office, I saw almost everyone in a hurry, leaving — didn't get to accomplish my agenda for today.

August 31, 2023

[ilaw-at-panitik]

From Kristian Kordero on Instagram: The Blood Compact between Legazpi and Sikatuna in 1565 is an unquestioned fact of Philippine history. Officially it is regarded as the “first treaty between the Philippines and a foreign country.” In 1885 Juan Luna painted El Pacto de Sangre, and we take his painting—now proudly displayed in Malacañang—as confirmation of the significance of this event. But was it a treaty? What can we decipher from Luna’s painting? What really transpired between Legazpi and Sikatuna? This talk uncovers the layers of meaning that have shrouded the Blood Compact and argues that it be framed as a nonevent. See you later at 4PM here at Savage Mind: Arts, Books, Cinema for this lecture presentation by Dr. Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. of Ateneo de Manila University. Open to Public.