Malaya Movement USA joins millions of Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world who are disgusted by the rampant theft of billions of pesos of the people’s money by wealthy politicians and top contractors through fraudulent “ghost” flood control projects in the Philippines. The lavish lifestyles of corrupt public officials in the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the heads of construction companies they’ve colluded with, are paid for in dozens to hundreds of Filipino lives each year. But the biggest and most guilty politician in the Philippines is the one pretending to lead this publicity crusade against corruption - President Bongbong Marcos Jr. (BBM) himself.

On July 24, super typhoon Carina hit the Philippines causing intense rainfall and flooding in various regions and islands of Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) declared Metro Manila in a “state of calamity.” As diasporic Filipinos, with many of our families in the Philippines, we look on in horror at the floods that have affected 1.3 million, most of whom come from the working-class and urban poor.