PortlandCHRP - Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

On January 1st, 2026, the US-backed Armed Forces of the Philippines carried out a series of bombings in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro, killing 5, displacing hundreds, and resulting in the temporary disappearance and later detainment of Filipina-American community activist Chantal Anicoche.

US Senator from Oregon Jeff Merkley has issued statements of support for community organizers in the Philippine, but has often been hesitant to take substantive action. As US imperialism worsens its slaughter worldwide, we are calling on Merkley to condemn and demand investigations into not just the bombings but also the wave of terror-tagging (labelling, harassing, and attacking all activists critical of the government as “terrorists) by the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict.

When: Monday, 3/16, 5:30-7:30PM
Where: PSU Cramer Hall, Room 053