14/03/2026
TABO-TAGBO PARA SA CARBON: Street Jam Against Carbon Market Privatization
We’re bringing the jams in the middle of Cebu City’s historic market. Carbon serves metro cebu’s economy as source of affordable products making them more accessible for everyone. More popular as a market for vegetables and fruits, it is also home to almost all the possible retail products you can think of, making it a home for many small enterprises and vendors.
In the last years, there has been an effort to ‘modernize’ the market by giving the project to the a private company for modernization and operations. Vendors have since then, raised their concern over the seeming privatization of the public market; pointing out its implications to the vendors renting their spots and subsequently, the Cebuano consumers who will also share the burden of increasing costs. Carbon Market Vendors have been in a series of dialogues, petitions, and demonstrations of their opposition to this, and now there is a pending petition for certiorari against this project at the Supreme Court and a Nullification case of the JVA at the RTC. This March 17, the City Council of the Cebu City government will hold an executive session regarding this ongoing concern.
Us artists and musicians from counterflow, Concerned Artists of the Philippines Cebu Chapter and Andres Sugbu are showing our support to the Carbon Market Vendors and Carbon-hanong Alyansa in this fight.
So from our usual gig venues, we’re bringing the jams in the streets this time. Specifically in the middle of Carbon Market’s night market.
Tomorrow, March 15, Sunday, join us for “TABO-TAGBO PARA SA CARBON: Street Jam Against Carbon Market Privatization”. 4PM onwards at Carbon Market (Mc Briones St. Corner Plaridel) in front of San Jose Bakeshop.
With performances from:
Emphatzu
Class Struggle
Elizabeth
She Must Be Dreaming
Dull Roy
Mika Maxa
SAT 4-7 Band
Awkward Dancer
Other artists will also be there to setup their booths in support of our vendors. Everyone’s invited to show their support too. You can bring your own signages, posters, or anything you can think of.
Basta kitakits ninyong tanan ugma! Mangarbon ta!!!!
(Poster by Gil CTRL of Andres Sugbu)