ACT TEACHERS Party-list Representative France Castro filed a resolution condemning the alleged red-tagging of several authors and their works by several commissioners of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino and of the Sonshine Media Network International News.

House Resolution 253 also called for the revocation of the memorandum orders issued by the KWF to purge several published books and documents.

“We will not sit idly by while our teachers, researchers, writers and their works are red-tagged and vilified,” Castro said.

“We urge KWF to immediately revoke Memorandum 2022-0663 and Resolution 17-8 for violation of academic freedom, freedom of expression and other rights of the people RA 7104 and RA 7722,” she added.

The lawmaker said that ACT is one with the entire academic and cultural community in asserting that they who fear poems, plays, and prose have no grounds in fact, laws, and human decency to silence authors and creators, have no reason to shutter the eyes of people who want to embrace their words.

“In truth, they who fear books standing on the bookshelves tremble at the idea of the people standing up—against injustice, against the powers-that-be who use lies to further mire the nation in oppression and poverty,” she added.