Philippines call by the ILPS - Jose Maria Sison‏ - Appeal for Philippines - Aid to victims of super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan)

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From: democrite@neuf.fr
To: democrite@neuf.fr
Subject: Philippines call by the ILPS - Jose Maria Sison
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:16:00 +0100

APPEAL FOR  AID TO VICTIMS OF SUPER TYPHOON YOLANDA (HAIYAN)

Issued by the Office of the Chairperson

International League of Peoples' Struggle

November 10,  2013

We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle, appeal to all our global region committees, national chapters, member-organizations, our friends and  all the people of the world to carry out a campaign of raising resources and delivering them to  the millions of people afflicted by super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in 35 provinces in the central part of the Philippines.

The aid  is  for immediate relief and rescue  and long term rehabilitation of  the devastated communities and families , especially of the impoverished workers, peasants, fishermen and the middle social strata who have suffered death and injury and whose  homes, personal belongings and livelihoods have been either blown away by the overly strong winds or swept away by storm surges from the sea.

Due to the destruction of energy and communication lines,  the full extent of the destruction of lives and property is still being assessed.  But there are already images of the wide  scale of destruction taken from air planes and satellites.  Entire communities are flattened. Thousands of lives have been lost.  Millions of people are in need of food,  clean water, clothing, shelter, medical services  and proper burial of the dead. 

The most reliable private relief-and-rehabilitation organization in the Philippines  is BALSA, which includes BAYAN and other ILPS member-organizations as well as civic and religious organizations that have an excellent record of undertaking humanitarian efforts in previous disasters.  Within the Philippines, BALSA is taking initiative in assessing the destruction to life, property and livelihood and in collecting and  delivering the aid to  the victims.  The ILPS advise Filipino organizations and their friends abroad to forward to BALSA the aid that they  can collect.

It is necessary for the people's organizations to raise the money and goods for the immediate relief and  rescue and for long-term rehabilitation of the communities and families, especially because the so-called calamity funds of the Benigno Aquino government have been misused and continue to be misused as pork barrel for purposes of corruption and political  patronage from the level of the chief bureaucrat Aquino downwards. 

Both civil bureaucracy and military forces of the Aquino regime  did not give timely and adequate  warning to  the people about  the grave dangers of the overly strong winds of the super typhoon and the  storm surges from the sea.  They did not prepare evacuation centers. And they did not guide the people to move to relatively safer areas before the super typhoon struck.

We appreciate highly the efforts of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People's Army and  the National Democratic Front of the Philippines to mobilize the local revolutionary organs of political power, the mass organizations and the broad masses of the people to prepare themselves against the onslaught of the super typhoon and for collective action  in undertaking rescue, relief and rehabilitation operations.

We also admire the revolutionary forces for unilaterally  declaring ceasefire in all the areas devastated by the super typhoon.  They stand on a high moral ground as they serve the people in need. In sharp contrast, the bureaucrats and military officers of the reactionary armed forces  loot a big part of the relief goods  from government warehouses and use another part for counterrevolutionary propaganda and psywar.  They shamelessly coordinate with US planes and ships in interventions under the pretext of humanitarian aid. ###

For the International Coordinating Committee

of the International League of Peoples' Struggle

Prof. Jose Maria Sison