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Fête de la Musique PH 2026
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*****THE INDIE STAGE*****

Cream Flower
Eggboy
NEW LORE
We Are Imaginary
Novocrane
FAUCETS
Goon Lagoon
Sexy Jay
The Braille Flowers
Jetcoaster
Lions and Acrobats

4:30 p.m.
Sari Sari
June 26, 2026 (Friday)
SEE YOU!

Poster by Toni Avila

SOUND OFF FOR THE MARTYRS OF TOBOSO!

On 19 April 2026, the Armed Forces of the Philippines conducted yet another massacre on Negros island — this time, that of nine civilians and 10 red fighters.

While it’s true they were victims of fascism and state terrorism, the circumstances of their murder — that they were killed by security forces as they served the people in different capacities — made of them not just victims.

The Toboso 19 were martyrs.

Peasant organizers Errol Wendel and Mau Santuyo, student leader Alyssa Alano, poet and journalist RJ Ledesma, migrant rights defenders Lyle Prijoles and Kai Sorem — they were civilian activists of the national democratic movement.

And in their aspiration to help create conditions for socialism — that is to say, in their struggle for national democracy — they dared to live among the oppressed Negrosanon peasantry, learned from them, and faced the complementary horrors of land monopoly and rural militarization.

The recent hundred-strong national fact-finding and solidarity mission to Toboso, Negros Occidental validated what the national democratic movement had already suspected: that the 79th Infantry Battalion of the AFP violated International Humanitarian Law. And they did so to maintain feudal and semi-feudal relations, upheld by imperialism and reinforced by bureaucrat capitalism.

Local testimonies bared systematic violence that for Negrosanon farmers and agri-workers had become everyday reality. Soldiers encamped in civilian homes. Strafing in residential neighborhoods. Routine harassment. Human shields.

But shocking as these stories were, they were not new. Errol, Mau, Alyssa, RJ, Lyle, and Kai knew well the risk of standing in solidarity with the peasants that sustained Negros as the country’s sugar bowl and hacienda capital. By living among the rural poor, they, too, were subjected to the same abject conditions.

Nevertheless, their willingness to stand up to the possibility of gunfire did not mean they deserved to be felled by it.

In their honor, different organizations of the peasant movement present this tribute to our heroes.

TOBOSOUNDS
Music for the martyrs of Toboso, Negros Occidental

Featuring performances by
—Catpuke
—Cream Flower
—gal•lows
—Mara Peralta
—Monochrome
—The Purest Blue
—Spacedog Spacecat
—switchbitch

Between musical acts, leaders and representatives from different organizations will share their solidarity messages. All proceeds from the pay-as-you-can fundraiser will go to the Defend Negros campaign.

We hope you will stand with us. See you at Mang Rudy’s in Makati!