Last week, Malaya Movement chapters across the country commemorated the 40th Anniversary of the EDSA People Power that toppled fascist dictator, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Listen to Nonoy’s experience as a trade union organizer under Marcos Sr’s brutal martial law. Like thousands of other civilian activists, Nonoy was detained and tortured by government forces. 

As more than 200,000 people flooded the streets in the Philippines, Filipinos overseas took part in the widespread protest against corruption, impunity and fascism, including Malaya Movement USA chapters across the United States on the 53rd anniversary of Marcos Sr.’s declaration of Martial Law.