BAYAN USA

08/31/2026

08/31/2026

It has been 30 days since the unjust detention of Filipino American activist Christina Pasion, who currently remains in custody of the Philippine Bureau of Immigration at Philippine National Police (PNP) Camp Bagong Diwa. Her family, legal team and community supporters continue to demand for her immediate release and safe return to her loved ones.

Christina’s case is not an isolated incident but part of a larger agenda to repress workers, farmers, indigenous peoples and migrants who are all advocating and speaking critically of Marcos Jr. and his counter-insurgency program (NAP-UPD). With the current case against Pasion, the Philippine state is trying to draw out this legal process as an attempt to criminalize her with other trumped-up charges.

We must wage a comprehensive campaign for Pasion’s release and the release of Mangyan-Buhid indigenous organizer Binay Serrano who was unjustly arrested alongside her.

Christina, like many Filipinos abroad, experienced the criminal neglect of the Philippine state at the hands of representatives like Philippine Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez. He and his ilk continue to dismiss the calls of migrant workers who are demanding justice from their criminal employers, and continue to uphold the anti-migrant policies of President Trump. Pasion was amongst many activists and advocates in the U.S. supporting seafarers, J-1 visa teachers, caregivers and others who face blatant abandonment from the Philippine state.

It is clear that Pasion recognized the need to return home and address the root causes of forced migration, which pushes our kababayan abroad in search of solutions to their economic hardships. This led her to Laguna, the site of many so-called special economic zones, and a province under the Luzon Economic Corridor. There, farmers, indigenous people, activists, and workers face land grabbing, political repression, and union busting. Like other advocates in the region, Christina fought to expose the exploitation of workers and peasant farmers, and the plunder of their land and resources. These conditions foreshadow what's in store for the masses if the Pax Silica Initiative in Central Luzon is allowed to advance the U.S. extractive economic and military agenda—a parallel that Pasion, Serrano and many others oppose.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines' 68th Infantry Battalion, 203rd Infantry Brigade and the Philippine National Police will continue their baseless allegations linking Christina Pasion to the New People's Army as an attempt to criminalize her. As the Philippine state drags her case longer, they only continue to demonstrate the lengths to which they will go to silence those who expose injustice and stand alongside marginalized communities.
Christina Pasion is an example of what it means to go to the Philippines, see the conditions firsthand and be in service to the people who are active participants in their own liberation. We must not let Marcos’ repression deter Filipinos in diaspora from heeding the call to serve the Filipino people and continuing the struggle for the Philippines’ genuine sovereignty and national democracy.

Free Christina Pasion and Binay Serrano now!

08/30/2026

Across the U.S. from LA to Seattle to San Francisco to Washington D.C. hundreds of Filipinos and allies protested at the Philippine Consulate and Embassy demanding for Christine Pasion’s release and the release of Mangyan-Buhid indigenous organizer Binay Serrano who was arrested alongside her.

It has been 30 days since the detention of Filipino American Activist Christina Pasion who remains still in the custody of the Bureau of Immigration and the PNP. The Philippine state is trying to draw this legal process longer as an attempt to criminalize both Pasion and Serrano but her family, legal team and community supporters in the Philippines and abroad will continue to demand for their immediate release and safe return to their loved ones.

Release Christina Pasion Now!
Release Binay Serrano!
Abolish the NTF-ELCAC!

08/24/2026

✊AMBASSADOR ROMUALDEZ - TAKSIL SA BAYAN, TUTA NG DAYUHAN!

THE CONDITIONS Filipinos face worsen under the Trump administration while Philippine state representatives like PH Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez remain complicit in the midst of the economic and political crisis.

AS THE ATTACKS on Filipino migrants grows under Trump’s 2,000 per day ICE arrest quota and the prices of basic necessities and providing for families back home increase, the Philippine Embassy and Consulates have doubled down on serving U.S. interests (...)

IN THE RECENT MONTHS there has been an increase of unleashing repression on migrant Filipino families and activists who have spoken out against the criminal abandonment of the state. At the end of July, during the People's State of the Nation Address, BAYAN USA Vice Chair Jom Dolor was barred from entering the Consular Section of the Philippine Embassy, simply for delivering a letter of demands from Families of Filipinos in Detention (FFIND). It was later identified that the Consulate representative that called for his barring is from the Office of the Philippine National Police Attache, Brigadier General Moises Villaceran Jr.

CONSULAR OFFICIALS have also threatened to call law enforcement on nationals who are urgently requesting resources for their detained loved ones.

BAYAN USA has called for Romauldez to step down or be recalled from his post if his actions do not align with his responsibilities to stand for Filipino nationals.

THROUGH OUR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGNS we have repeatedly raised the concerns that the Philippine government should address - from violent immigration enforcement, labor trafficking, and bringing the Philippines closer to war.

IT IS CLEAR that what he has actually done in his post is the further sell-out of the Filipino people and our natural resources. He is actively campaigning for the implementation of breaking ground for Pax Silica despite widespread condemnation. Romauldez is a clear example that bureaucrat capitalists, wherever they are, will not serve the Filipino people.

OVERSEAS FILIPINOS, unite and organize to oppose state neglect and repression! Advance the true interests of the Filipino nation! #

08/24/2026

✊🏽 The GRP rebranding of the Pax Silica in the Philippines as “Clark Advanced Manufacturing Park” will NOT delude the Filipino people or quell our rage to Shut the Pax Down!

The Bases Conversion and Development Authority is now backtracking and saying there won’t be any AI data centers in the Philippines’ concessions for the U.S.-led Pax Silica and that the concerns of the communities in New Clark City will be attended to. We know they are only changing their tune bec of the growing mass movement against Pax Silica. We condemn Joshua Bingcang and Ambassador Jose Manual Romualdez for selling out the Philippines to the US imperialist war machine

From Luzon, Visayas Mindanao — US Pax Silica Out Now!

Hindi ninyo kami maloloko! Hindi ninyo kami mabebenta! Lupa sa magsasaka, hindi sa imperyalista!

08/22/2026

BAYAN USA & Migrante USA call out the dangerous collaboration between the US and Philippine reactionary governments to repress the people's right to organize and fight back. We demand justice for all those who are attacked by the US-Marcos regime and uplift the justness of the people's struggle against foreign domination.

Magsama-sama tayo at lumaban para sa isang bagong sistema, isang bagong gobyerno na tayo naman ang pagsisilbihan at hindi interes ng dayuhan.

Embahada at Konsulado ng Pilipinas, hwag kayong taksil sa bayan, hwag kayong magsilbi sa dayuhan!

Tuloy ang Laban! Makibaka! Huwag matakot!

08/20/2026

🌾⛓️‍💥 TANIKALA SA LUPA: An Online Discussion on Feudalism & Semi-Feudalism in the Philippines

Join BAYAN USA for an important discussion on feudalism and semi-feudalism in the Philippines, a socio-economic system that shapes the lives of peasants, our nation’s food producers and the majority of our country.

📅 Tuesday, September 1
🕗 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 5pm PT / 2pm Hawaii
📩 RSVP: tinyurl.com/byn-edu-0810

As peasant farmers and indigenous peoples struggle for land and livelihood in the countryside of the Philippines, overseas people must understand feudalism and semi-feudalism to truly support their fight against landlessness, displacement, and exploitation.

We will discuss feudalism as a basic problem of PH society and its role in BAYAN USA campaigns such as the Shut the Pax Down campaign and the Defend Negros campaign. We will also hear sharings from recent immersion trips to the Philippine countryside where BAYAN members saw the conditions of feudalism firsthand.

Interpretation will be provided for Filipino speakers. This discussion is meant for a mass audience. Please circulate widely

LUPA SA MAGSASAKA, HINDI SA IMPERYALISTA!
MILITAR SA KANUYANUN, PALAYASIN!
PYUDALISMO, IBAGSAK!

08/15/2026

🇰🇷🇵🇭🇰🇵 On Liberation Day, Filipinos and Koreans commemorate our unity in struggle to oppose U.S. military build-up in our homelands!

August 15, also known as Liberation Day, marks 81 years since the Korean people defeated Japanese colonialism and today, a renewed struggle against US imperialism. BAYAN USA and the Filipino people express our utmost solidarity with our Korean comrades in the struggle to liberate our people from the throes of U.S. imperialist war and plunder.

As the Filipino mass movement advances our struggle for national liberation, we also assert the right of the Korean people and its diaspora to organize and fight for national sovereignty. We must oppose the abuses by the bureaucrat capitalist states of the ROK and Philippines sell out our land and people to the U.S. imperialists and monopoly capitalists.

US Out of Korea! US Out of the Philippines!
From Korea to the Philippines, stop the US War Machine!

08/11/2026

BAYAN USA welcomes the possibility of the Philippines not hosting the Pax Silica initiative because it is a LOSING DEAL FOR THE FILIPINO PEOPLE. We applaud the growing mass opposition against this US-led initiative that will only integrate the Philippines further into the U.S. War Machine and bring mass loss of livelihood, displacement and environmental destruction to local communities.

We must believe we can Shut the Pax Down! We must continue targeting Philippine Ambassador Romualdez and the U.S.-Marcos regime for their treachery and sellout of the Filipino people and our national sovereignty. We reject war production disguised as development and the reduction of the Philippines as a supply chain outpost for imperialist plunder and war. We link arms with other Asian countries that are facing the threat of Pax Silica, U.S.-led war and plunder. Only genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization will bring pro-people development, not extraction for the benefit of US imperialism

08/04/2026

🎥 WATCH: It's been one month since the Kalayaan Summit and mobilization happened in Los Angeles, California where over 1,000 Filipinos came together to unite in our collective fight for freedom for our people and our homeland!

Watch the recap video and comment with your favorite memory from the Summit, things you learned, and share updates from your campaigns!

Lumaban para sa kalayaan mula sa kagutuman at kahirapan ng mamamayan at para sa kasarinlan ng ating Inang Bayan!
Fight for the people’s freedom from hunger and poverty and for the sovereignty of our motherland!

Read the unity statement: bayanusa.org/kalayaansummit