Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been sworn in as president of the Philippines at a ceremony today in Manila. Marcos Jr. is the son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines from 1965 until 1986, when he was overthrown in a popular uprising. Survivors of Marcos’s brutal two-decade regime have recounted horrific details of torture under Marcos’s regime. Here in New York, Filipino American activists gathered in Times Square Wednesday for a protest. This is Nikki Pagulayan.

Nikki Pagulayan: “No matter what, they will not be able to silence us or quell our fight, because they are up against a movement that has defeated colonization, occupation and dictators past. Maybe the Marcoses have been so set that they forgot the hundreds and thousands of people that rose up across the homeland and overseas and ousted them once, because we will [bleep] oust them again!”