TEN YEARS OF OPPOSING TAGALOG IMPERIALISM

Welcome to the homecourt of United non-Tagalogs. The Defenders of Indigenous Languages of the Archipelago is a grand alliance of patriotic Pangasinenses, Pampanguenos, Bicolanos, Warays, Karay-as, Ilongos, Cebuanos, Ilocanos, and other ethno-linguistic groups who oppose the language policy of their country. It unites them in their fight against ethnic cleansing and in their struggle for language equality. Our battle cry is: Bicolano for Camarines, Capampangan for Pampanga, Cebuano for Cebu, Hiligaynon for Iloilo, Ilocano for Ilocos Norte, Pangasinan for Pangasinan and Waray for Samar! United, we shall overcome the threat of Tagalog!

"Filipino" is the jejemon national language of the Philippine government. We are never going to accept it as our language nor will we tolerate the growing Tagalista mentality spread by Google-Facebook on the internet and ABSCBN-GMA7-ABC5 on television. The media uses Tagalog or "Filipino" because it is the language that the government promotes. Nobody is going to admit that he is going to kill your non-Tagalog language. It amounts to the same thing when one supports the existence of a national language. The one they misleadingly call Filipino, and which is only a subdialect of Tagalog, is intended to wipe out and replace your God-given language.

It is universally acknowledged that the Philippines has a language problem but the nationalists obfuscate the issue by falsely accusing English of being its cause. Until the 1987 Constitution of Corazon Aquino is abrogated, our languages are in mortal danger of being taken over by Tagalog.

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