Progressive organizations in Bicol protested on August 14 in Legazpi City to condemn US imperialist military presence in the city. They conducted the action on the last day of the US “humanitarian mission” under the Pacific Partnership 2024-2 that began on August 1.

Led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan)-Bicol, its members and allied organizations picketed before the Marison Hotel in Barangay 38-Cogon where some of the American soldiers stayed. A mass was earlier held at the Albay Cathedral and caravan to Our Mother of Perpetual Help Redemptorist Church, near the said hotel.

Bayan-Bicol Chairperson Jen Nagrampa said they staged the protest to register the opposition of Bicolano patriots to US military activities in the region and even in the entire country. “Led by the US Indo-Pacific Command, its humanitarian mission is a smokescreen for combat operation,” the group said.