THE CONSPIRACY TAPES TOTE BAG XL

“DON’T WORRY, EVERYTHING IS OUT OF CONTROL.”

A Buddhist joke. A Stoic antidote. Or it can also be a cynical way of viewing a totalitarian state by its populace, jokingly, of course.

This photograph was taken by Mark Cristino (@markcristino) during the violent dispersal at the US embassy here in Manila on October 19, 2016. The cops rammed the activists with its van leaving dozens injured.

The protest was to demand an end to the Oplan Bayanihan, a counterinsurgency campaign and the pulling out of troops and militias from indigenous people’s communities.

— The Conspiracy Tapes, May 2023.