“OK” BACK-OFF!

The militant Left coalition Laban ng Masa (LnM) today protested in front of the notorious LTA Building in Makati City .  This building houses the private office address of First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, which is also known as the “Opisina ng Kabiyak” (or OK), wherein corrupt government deals were alleged to have been made at.

Around eighty LnM activists chanted anti-Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo slogans when they marched from the Greenbelt Mall to the “OK”, which is located only two blocks away.  As they marched, they held up a tarpaulin bearing an image similar to the official seal of the Office of the President of the Philippines but showing the words “Opisina ng Kawatan” and ‘Back-off!!!’ above the seal.

Upon reaching the LTA Building , the activists attempted to attach the tarpaulin seal on the main entrance of the “OK” but were blocked by the building’s security guards from doing so.  The activist group then held a brief mass-die-in action to attract more attention from the public while maintaining their militant chants.

A brief public program was then conducted in front of the “OK” with some LnM mass leaders explaining their issues against FGMA and his wife’s corrupting role inside the Philippine Government and upon society. One of the speakers was Rasti Delizo, Spokesperson of SANLAKAS and a National Council member of LnM.

In his speech at the rally, Delizo said, “We came here to show the public that the LTA building must now officially be recognized and viewed as the ‘Opisina ng Kawatan’”.  Delizo also explained, “this is because it is in this ‘OK’ where some very dark and evil deals involving millions and perhaps billions of pesos are made for only the benefit of the Arroyo couple at the expense of the masses’ welfare.”

In closing the rally program, the LnM leader further stated that, “Our people should now realize that while Gloria still rules from her Palace of Evil in Malacañang, her husband FGMA now also pursues his own brand of Gangster Rule from the ‘Opisina ng Kawatan’ located inside the LTA Building itself.”

The protest rally ended peacefully with the LnM activists promising to escalate their mass protest actions against the GMA Regime until it is ousted through another people power uprising and replaced with a Transitional Revolutionary Government (TRG).  They dispersed in an organized manner.