24/09/2026
๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐๐ก. ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐๐ง. ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐ช๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข!
September 21, 1972 was one of the darkest times for the Philippines. The then-President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. signed Proclamation No. 1081, placing the entire country under Martial Law. These dark and bloody years were marked by widespread human rights abuses, suppression of media, state abolition of student organizations, extrajudicial killings, and illegal torture and imprisonment of those that opposed Martial Law. Moreover, 70,000 Filipinos were imprisoned, 34,000 tortured, and more than 3,240 extrajudicially killed. When he sat in office, the countryโs external debt was approximately 599 million dollars. By the time he was kicked out of the position, this debt had multiplied to 4 times.
Despite justifications that Martial Law was for securing peace against the โcommunist threat,โ Marcos Sr. used Martial Law as a way of maintaining power, making his family and croniesโ wealth bigger as the countryโs economic state worsened over time.
His dictatorship did not bring convenience that the people were looking forward to, but instead brought nightmares for almost eight years.
After fifty-four years, another Marcos has sat down for the Presidency. Just like his father, he did bring the worst to the Filipinos. His tarnished relationship with Vice President Sara Duterte was shortly unveiled, proving that their relationship is to gain personal powers rather than giving service to the people. Moreover, the implication of enforced disappearances for activists, and human rights defenders is still a tactic in the administration of Marcos Jr. Such incidents alongside red-tagging and labelling individuals and organizations as terrorists without evidence creates fear and intimidation among organizations, individuals, and even people from the media. Not to mention that the Filipino people continue to face underemployment, low wages, increased cost of goods, and on-going natural disasters without real aid. While this is all happening, the Marcos family enjoy a luxurious lifestyle and not even giving a care to the people.
On the local scale, continuous militarization enters the lands of the indigenous people without their prior consent. Just like the case in the municipalities of Villaviciosa and Luba in Abra wherein they plan to build a military base that is 2,000 hectares. The issue of mining too is prevalent in the administration of Marcos Jr. such as the case in Dupax, Nueva Vizcaya wherein seven innocent residents were arrested because they were barricading their land against the mining exploration of Woggle Corporation. This case is not so far from the experiences of the people from Mankayan, Benguet wherein Crescent Mining and Development Corporation are eyeing the lands of the people for the purpose of mining. Though the operation was halted and the barricade of the people was recently successful, it does not mean that it is a permanent resolution. There is also the Gened Hydroelectric Power Projects proposal wherein mega dams are planned to be built along the Apayao-Abulug River in Apayao. This is alarming to the people as it will affect their lives, livelihood, and their future generations. This raises the thought that the military is there to protect the indigenous lands for the private and big corporations to take over rather than giving safety to the people.
Despite all these issues, the administration of Marcos Jr. still turns a blind eye on these rather than give solutions. Marcos Jr., just like his father, is still being a puppet or a dog to the US and China rather than standing with the people. This increasing support for the military emboldens the government of the Philippines to crush the democratic space that the Filipino people are holding on to.
As Siyentistas ng Bayan, we should never forget our fellow scientists who fought against the Marcos dictatorship. One of them was Dr. Aloysius Baes, an environmental scientist who defended freedom and democracy during Martial Law. Before the declaration, he taught Chemistry in UP Diliman and UP Los Baรฑos and left the academy in 1972 to organize farmer groups in Laguna. He is also one of the founders of Advocates of Science and Technology for the People or AGHAM. Another one is Dr. Roger Posadas, a Filipino physicist and people know him as a scientist of the people. He was a member of Samahan ng Makabayang Siyentipiko or SMS which is a group of patriotic scientists and engineers in UP Diliman. When Martial Law was declared, he went underground but later on was arrested and tortured in 1976. After his release, he went back to UP to teach because of his deep passion for science.
Let us also remember the other unnamed scientists who fought with the people against the dictatorship of Marcos Sr.
With this, the UPB USC CS Committee stands firm that science does not stand on its own and separate from the struggles of the people. As Siyentistas ng Bayan, we should use our knowledge, skills, and voices to support the different sectors whose rights, land, and livelihood are continuously being threatened by the fascist state. As we commemorate Martial Law, we must have the courage to stand for the truth, justice, and genuine democracy.
The attempts to frame the administration as the โgolden eraโ of the country should always be rejected. Even after fifty-four years, we still remember. We remember our heroes, martyrs, and survivors who stood up for human rights, freedom, and for their fellow Filipinos. We will NEVER recognize Ferdinand Marcos Sr. as a hero. WE SAY NO TO HISTORICAL REVISIONISM!
๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ก ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐ ๐จ.๐ฆ. ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฆ-๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ง๐
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