Unidentified gunmen shot dead a labor organizer in Barangay Bunga in Tanza, Cavite, while he was giving a lecture on trade unionism last 2 June 2019. The 48-year-old, known fondly by colleagues as Ka Dennis, was the vice chairperson of Partido Manggagawa (PM) Cavite and Party’s 4th nominee for the party-list race during the 2019 midterm elections.
We would like to extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to the family, relatives and comrades of Ka Dennis. We join the whole labor and workers’ communities, unions, movements, centers and activists in the country and the world in the condemnation in the strongest term and cry for justice. Ka Dennis is best remembered for his work organizing laborers in the Cavite EPZA. He asserted their rights and spoke out against contractualization despite the threats from the international corporations collaborating with the local business and political elites.
Partido Manggagawa urges authorities to act with dispatch and catch the perpetrators’ behind the kilings of Dennis Sequeña, who was slain less than a week before his birthday.
He was laid to rest last June 12, 2019 in time of the 121st commemoration of the Philippine Independence. The date of the burial was not to celebrate the said commemoration but a strong message and clamor for real independence of the workers and common citizens that fall prey to the elitist interests.
We strongly urge the Department of Labor and Employment and the whole Philippine government to bring justice to Ka Dennis’ death and end all forms of oppression and repression in the working places and communities of the country.
Ka Dennis death is one among the thousands of the murders of peasant, union, social, Lumad and people’s organizations leaders and activists under Duterte’s administration done with impunity. Their deaths are real manifestation that in a society like the Philippines the fight for the democratic assertions of the people are answered in murderous and barbaric way.
Ka Dennis, you will forever be remembered as a Hero of the Workers in the Economic Processing Zones and all other making places. Your death has emboldened us to keep the fighting with workers’ and peoples’ rights against all forms of oppression and exploitation."
June 16, 2019
MindanaOne Peoples’ Movement (Mindanao)
Kilusang Maralita sa Kanayunan (Mindanao)
Kagkalimwa OFW Federation (Cotabato and Maguindanao)
Kaagapay OFW Resource and Service Center (Cotabato City)
Demokratikong Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas-Lanao
Nagkahiusang Mangingisda alang sa Kalambuan (SND, Lanao)
Lanao Fisheries Advocacy Network
Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan (Mindanao)
Association of OFW Children (Citabato City)
Laban Kababaihan (Mindanao)
Pagilidan Farmer's Organization for Unity and Development (SND, Lanao)
Lanao Alliance of Human Rights Advocates
Alyansa ng mga Mamamayan para sa Karapatang Pantao (Cotabato-Maguindanao)
Initiatives and Movement for Gender Liberation Against Discrimination (Mindanao)
Mindanao Peoples' Peace Movement
Nagkahiusang Mag-uumang Organiko (Agusan-Surigao)
Kahugpungan sa mga Mamumuo sa Lanao
Alyansa ng Kabataang Mindanao para sa Kapayapaan
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Photo credits to Partido Manggagawa/CPM during the Funeral March for Ka Dennis. June 12, 2019.
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