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title: Guard Your Freedom (Ilocano poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/guard-your-freedom-ilocano-1952/
description: An Ilocano-language civic poster. A farmer with a rice sheaf, a woman in traditional dress with a sun-and-stars motif, and a boy with a schoolbook stand…
section: Collection
---

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[![Guard Your Freedom (Ilocano poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/guard-your-freedom-ilocano-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/guard-your-freedom-ilocano-1952.jpg)

# Guard Your Freedom (Ilocano poster)

An Ilocano-language civic poster. A farmer with a rice sheaf, a woman in traditional dress with a sun-and-stars motif, and a boy with a schoolbook stand before the red and blue of the Philippine flag, the woman holding a scroll marked 'Constitution of the Philippines'. 'Guard your freedom' and 'carry out your duties' are virtue slogans; the flag colours and constitution lend the national symbols' prestige to the message.

## Text on the object

Original (Ilocano) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Salacnibanyo ti WAYAWAYAYO

IGAGAYO DAGITI PAGREBBENGANYO

[handwritten annotation above the title:] Ilocano / Guard your Freedom / 23,000 / [date illegible]

[on the scroll:] Constitution of the Philippines
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Guard your freedom

Carry out your responsibilities

[annotation and scroll label are in English]
```

The handwritten pencil annotation at top is an archive or distribution note, not part of the printed poster. The scroll in the woman's hand is labelled in English. FRAME translation of the Ilocano (machine, not fluent-reader verified).

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