Anakbayan Montreal

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Anakbayan Montreal

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A national democratic Filipino youth group in Montreal organizing & mobilizing for our right to land, decent jobs & wages, education & social services

10/07/2026

Anakbayan Montreal endorses the Oct 10 protest for Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤️‍🔥

📣 Join us on Saturday at 2:00 PM at The Ring (730 Cathcart) 📣

It has been 3 years since the start of Israel’s genocide and occupation in Gaza.

The government of Canada must be held accountable for continuing to enable and participate in the genocide. We must continue to show the Canadian and Quebec governments that we have not forgotten about their complicity.

We stand in solidarity the movement for Palestinian liberation and call on the following:
1) Canada enforces a two-way arms embargo on Israel
2) Canada implements sanctions on Israel
3) Quebec closes the Quebec Bureau (office) in Tel Aviv
4) All Palestinian political prisoners to be liberated from Zionist jails

Our resistance and solidarity for other resistance movements goes beyond borders because imperialism goes beyond borders too, from Palestine to the Philippines.

10/04/2026

On this national day for truth and reconciliation, it is important to share the perspective as an activist. It’s important to open this dialogue about mental health to more than just our individual battles and link it to our history of colonial violence.

The film, Forgotten Island, talks a lot about the themes of separation and as Filipinos both born here and back in the Philippines, it’s important to ask ourselves why we are here. Why were some of us born here, why were some of us separated from our parents for 10 years, why is it so normalized to say goodbye to our friends and family and watch our relationships get torn apart.

Why does Raissa have to go to school in the US and not in the country? Ask ourselves, why are Filipinos forced to move abroad to seek better opportunities in North America while opportunity can be sought in the Philippines.

This story is one of countless stories of families that are separated and torn apart for years and even decades. There is a huge underlying source to our mental health issue.

Thank you so much to Centre Kapwa MTL for hosting this wonderful film screening of Forgotten Island and giving space for us Filipinos in the audience to share our experience in the roundtable discussion!
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10/02/2026

On September 30, the community gathered for the Every Child Matters March on the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

This march also took place the same day that the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Missing and Disappeared children and Unmarked Graves in Canada delivered their final judgement stating that Canada has been committing genocide against Indigenous Peoples and that the government continues to violate their rights.

Canada inadequately funds the search for disappeared children, dispossess the Indigenous Peoples' of their lands while poisoning their water and failing to support the need for housing, healthcare, and services, and fails in their responsibility to educate the public about their historic and ongoing injustices.

As it stands, less than 15 of the 94 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of have been completed.

The same greed and disregard for human dignity that compels Canada to genocide the Indigenous Peoples also compels this country to militarize the Philippines, to plunder raw materials and labour from our lands, and further brutalize and subjugate the Filipino people. As such...

Anakbayan Montreal stands in solidarity with the Indigenous people of Canada

From Turtle Island to the Philippines…

07/30/2026

Thank you to everyone that came to our reportback! Our members’ exposure trip to the Philippines earlier this year highlighted the desire of the youth to connect to their roots through integrating with the peasant, worker, and urban poor communities.

The discussion that was held after the presentation showed that we have similar struggles here in Canada. Our members shared their learnings from organizing in the Philippines and how we can apply that to our conditions here as the working class.

As crisis continue to heighten, in the Philippines, and here in the imperial core, we must not lose hope, instead we must get organized!

07/15/2026

Triple Reportback of the Exposure Trip to the Philippines 💌

This winter, members of the Montreal-based Anakbayan chapter spent a month in the Philippines living alongside our people. Through this exposure trip, we witnessed firsthand the semi-feudal and semi-colonial conditions that continue to force thousands of Filipinos to leave their homes every day in search of livelihoods and opportunities.

Join us as we share our experiences, reflections, and lessons from the communities we lived with, and discuss what these realities mean for the struggle of the Filipino people—both in the Philippines and in the diaspora.

⏰ July 28, Tuesday from 5–8 PM
📍Au monastère (4450 rue Saint-Hubert, room 600 )

Near Metro Mont-Royal.
Wheelchair accessible. Free event!

07/06/2026

Thank you Ka-Collective for having us in your Kagat Zine Fair!
It was a great chance for us to meet fellow Filipino youth and converse about our political activities that serve our communities here. We talked about our neighborhood organizing and our next tenants assembly for housing rights and rent increase refusal. We also talked about our campaign of bringing Filipino youth to the Philippines for educational tours and reconnecting with our roots. We met met various Filipino artists that specialized in screenprinting, ceramic making, painting, jewellery making, and caligraphy making for ancestral bicolano language.

Radyo Kapwa also had us for an interview about our work so please make sure to tune in to that!

We would love to have collaborations for cultural works to incorporate with our campaigns and events. Please organize with us!

Thank you AC Tagubar for the photos!

07/05/2026

Joliz, one of our members, delivered a speech about our rage as the youth towards Marcos Jr, as he visits Canada this week.

We refuse to see our futures plundered!

Our generation deserves a Philippines where young people can build their futures with dignity, not one where they are forced to leave because their country has been sold to the highest bidder.

Join us, get agitated, get organized and mobilize with us!

06/29/2026

This war criminal, thief, fascist, and US imperialist puppet is coming to town and we will not just sit quietly as he comes here to sell the Philippines and the Filipino people to his imperialist masters!

We, the Filipino youth, refuse to let this monster take away our future, we are standing up and fighting back not just for ourselves but also for the toiling exploited masses.

Join us as we mobilize to Ottawa by the OTTAWA sign at Byward Market by 2pm. We will assemble ahead of time so please arrive early!

06/08/2026

On Sunday, June 7, Anakbayan Montreal, Migrante Quebec, and community allies came together for a community potluck with the residents of Bourret street and Côte-des-Neiges.

Members of the community came out and shared their stories, and expressed desire to build community with their neighbours to address common problems like rent increases or combat loneliness of isolation.

This event comes after months of meeting Bourret tenants who talked about their struggles with rent increases, neglect by landlords and building owners, improper garbage disposal, and more.

Stay tuned for our next samahan space on July 11 with PINAY , a workshop about our collective power to refuse rent increase and discussion on what can be our next steps.

Our members also presented a song, Kawayanan, by the late Ka Ericson Acosta who is a revolutionary and poet-musician. The song plays on a brilliant double entendre, kawayanan is a bamboo forest and the root word kaway means to “wave hello or goodbye”. The narrator asks a child (“Neneng”) to wave to their mother, who is heading out to fight for the people’s land and visit a father who has been unjustly imprisoned.

The song serves as a tribute to farmers fighting for their right to till the land. It often memorializes victims of agrarian injustices, such as the Hacienda Luisita massacre.

06/05/2026

On Thursday Morning May 28th, Anakbayan Montreal, Socialist Unity and ILPS Canada took part in the mobilisation in Ottawa to shut down CANSEC.

We were surrounded by heavy police presence who escorted the event attendees. As usual some smirked, some hid and some talked back. Though there were no arrests this year, the police continue to arm themselves to quash peaceful protesters

Since 1998, war profiteers gather to sell weapons that enable the suffering of people in Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon, Sudan, the Phillipines, as well as the Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia. The recent SOVFA agreement between the Carney Government and the Fascist Marcos regime have caused massacres in Negros leading to the deaths of 19 civilians, including 6 land defenders.

We call for a wider mass movement against the militarization of the Canadian Economy and a halt to Canadian Imperialism.

Shut down the War Machine, Shut down CANSEC!

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4755 Van Horne, Suite 110
Montreal, QC
H3W 1H8

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http://anakbayancanada.wordpress.com/congress-2024, http://gogetfunding.com/support-our-youth-get-help-us-get-to-vancouv

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