Manila – Health groups under Health Alliance for Democracy joined thousands of Filipinos in the call to #BanTrump as they marched to the Philippine International Convention Center, the venue for ASEAN Summit 2017, November 13.
As the new CEO of capitalist interests, Trump's tour ensures US dominance in the Asia-Pacific region by pushing for economic policies if not by military might. These policies which include the privatization of health care and other basic social services have been detrimental to Filipinos.
The quagmire of overproduction and growing debt among US, China, Russia, and other big imperialists necessitates their expansion in Asia; the ASEAN Summit is the perfect venue to pull the Philippines into it. Despite the aggrandized commercials through dominant media channels, 50 years of ASEAN failed to deliver. "Inclusive growth" has been elusive since its conception, a sugar coat on top of bitter years.
Also included in the ASEAN Summit agenda is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, a free trade agreement with China's interests at its core. Its contents are shrouded in secrecy (just like the US-led TransPacific Partnership) and hidden from public scrutiny, as top businessmen and world leaders talk about the future of the Asia-Pacific region, in other words, controlling the market for their profit.
HEAD therefore remains steadfast in its commitment to resist policies and foreign interventions aiming to push our people deeper into poverty and illness and worse, make profit out of our ill health. No to privatization! No to unfair economic policies! No to RCEP! Ban Trump!##
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