19/08/2026
✊REJECT CORPORATE EXPLOITATION! FIGHT FOR SOVEREIGN NATIONAL INDUSTRIALIZATION!✊
The Young Workers League (YWL) stands in firm solidarity with the Aeta communities and peasant farmers of Tarlac in fiercely opposing the 1,600-hectare Pax Silica hub in New Clark City. We refuse to let our lands, resources, and sovereignty be pawned off for foreign corporate gain! ❌🇵🇭
Pax Silica is a blueprint for exploitation, not progress. While it promises "innovation," the reality on the ground tells a devastating story:
⚠️ Sovereignty for Sale: Bypassing local laws with 99-year foreign land leases and outsourcing legal disputes to a New York Court of Commerce.
⚠️ Human Rights Violations: Displacing indigenous Aeta families without genuine Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) and evicting over 500 farming families.
⚠️ Ecological Crisis: Sucking up 90 million liters of water daily, starving local agriculture during severe El Niño droughts, and threatening the food security of 600,000 Filipinos.
WE DO NOT NEED MORE FOREIGN ENCLAVES THAT TREAT FILIPINO WORKERS AS CHEAP LABOR.
The youth demands a radical shift. True progress does not come from being a mere outsourced assembly line.
We call for Genuine National Industrialization:
🔹 Mandatory Technology Transfer: Foreign investments must legally pass down technical know-how to build local capabilities.
🔹 Sovereign Tech & R&D: Invest heavily in Filipino scientists, engineers, and state-backed research to develop our own domestic semiconductor and AI industries.
🔹 Pro-People Development: Industrialization must protect our environment, respect ancestral domains, and uphold the rights of working-class Filipinos.Our future is not for sale. We call on all young workers, students, and citizens to join the fight!
"Development without justice is merely a different form of exploitation."