Dispatch from Crame No. 1059:
Sen. Leila M. de Lima on red tagging of community pantry organizers

Bawal ang maging makatao sa ilalim ni Duterte. The reported harassment and red tagging of Ana Patricia Non of the Maginhawa Community Pantry and organizers of other community pantries did not come as a surprise. Duterte's rule thrives on people's misery that anything good coming from the people is threat to them. Heartless. Even residents from poor communities like Aroma in Tondo have pooled their meager resources to put up a pantry tapos sasabihin propaganda ang inisyatibang ito? Pakana ng NPA?

This regime is scared witless of the hope that these community efforts have sparked amid a pandemic. Takot na takot sa sariling multo kaya kailangang pakilusin ang kanyang kapulisan upang mapigilan ang tuluyang paglalantad sa kanilang kapalpakan. Kailangang kagyat na paimbestigahan ang mga insidente ng panggigipit na ito at panagutin ang mga may sala.

Let us stand behind Ana Patricia Non and organizers like her. Defend our community pantries. Resist the regime's attempt to deprive people of the right to live a life with dignity, especially amid a life- threatening crisis. Itaguyod ang pagdadamayan at tunay na bayanihan.