{"id":18196,"date":"2014-07-05T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T07:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18196"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:15:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:15:37","slug":"filipino-activists-call-for-an-end-to-us-ph-defense-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/05\/filipino-activists-call-for-an-end-to-us-ph-defense-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino activists call for an end to US-PH defense pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8032\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_115816168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8032\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_115816168.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"498\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_115816168.jpg 498w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_115816168-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_115816168-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 A group of about 100 demonstrators had a confrontation with police on Friday in the vicinity of the U.S. Embassy in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>The group marched to commemorate Philippine-American Friendship day and to decry the new defense pact between the two countries, which allows for thousands of U.S. troops to be temporarily based in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement an &#8220;unequal agreement,\u201d Vencer Crisostomo, chairman of the radical Anakbayan youth group, said that the pact signed in April is a &#8220;sellout of our national sovereignty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crisostomo added that the pact will not act as a deterrent but will only serve to worsen tensions between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes of the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Former Congressman Teddy Casino, a member of the leftist New Patriotic Alliance, meanwhile, enjoined the Supreme Court to declare the defense pact unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not really about friendship. &#8220;It&#8217;s about exploitation, it&#8217;s about a neocolonial relationship,&#8221; Casino said of the pact.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s clash resulted in the injury of a policeman and a protester, as demonstrators forced their way toward the embassy and riot police resisted them with truncheons and shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 A group of about 100 demonstrators had a confrontation with police on Friday in the vicinity of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[6457,6459,6455],"class_list":["post-18196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-defense-pact","tag-enhanced-defense-cooperation-agreement-anakbayan","tag-filipino-activists","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}