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Abolitionism against pandemic policing in the Philippines

Friday, September 4, 2020

Written for ROAR Magazine. The COVID-19 pandemic has truly brought out the worst in the Philippine government. Instead of treating the pandemic as a public health crisis, the state is treating it as a security issue and has responded by deploying its extremely violent security apparatus.

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Against a Quarantine with Martial Law Characteristics

Friday, April 3, 2020

  The Opportunism of Martial Law In March 2020, the people of the archipelago known as the Philippines were alarmed at the rate of local transmission of the disease known as COVID-19. On March 12, police and military forces were mobilized to enforce a community quarantine for the whole of Metro Manila scheduled to start […]

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