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Subject: EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: May 20 Vigil to Protest War of Terror
in the Philippines
From: "GABRIELA Network Campaigns Directors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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PROTEST THE
WAR OF TERROR
IN THE PHILIPPINES
Join GABRIELA Network in a nationally-coordinated vigil
Friday, 20 May 2005, 12NOON
Philippine Consulate
3600 Wilshire Blvd.
(corner Kingsley)
Los Angeles, CA 90004
SIMULTANEOUS ACTIONS in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York,
San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC
Let us know you'll be there. Endorse this protest action.
Contact us: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 323.459.7458.
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On May 21, 2002 the dead bodies of Rodriga and Ruben Apolinar and their
8-year old daughter Nina Angela were discovered inside their house after
their neighbors heard sounds of continuous gunfire the night before. Ruben
was a member of the BAYAN Muna (People First) Partylist, Rodriga of
GABRIELA (an alliance of over 200 women�s organizations in the
Philippines).
In full support of the US so-called war on terror, Philippine President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) has declared war on all people who are
critical of her government. Community organizers, mass leaders, striking
peasants and workers are being harassed, disappeared, killed. Entire
communities are being terrorized.
~ 11 GABRIELA and GABRIELA Women�s Partylist members killed since GMA took
office.
~ 32 political killings, 6 activists disappeared in the first quarter of
2005.
~ at least 300 political killings and abductions since 2001.
~ 100 cases of human rights violations, affecting 23,252 victims in 91
communities,
from January to March 15, 2005.
~ 13 journalists killed last year; 3 in the first quarter of 2005. The
International Federation of Journalists cited the Philippines as the
second most dangerous place for the media, next only to Iraq.
The GMA government has not investigated any of these atrocities. No one
has been arrested or tried. Supported by the US, the Philippine military
and para-military groups are terrorizing communities and political
activists with absolute impunity. According to Philippine Colonel
Palparan, members of organizations like GABRIELA and BAYAN are fair game
in the US war on terror.
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GABRIELA Network - Los Angeles Chapter
A US-Philippine Women's Solidarity Organization
PO Box 3032
Cerritos, CA 90703-3032
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: www.gabnet.org
www.purplerosecampaign.org
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*** GABRIELA Network is a Philippine-US women's solidarity organization
since 1989. GABNet provides the means by which Filipinas in the US can
empower themselves, functions as training ground for women's leadership,
and articulates the women's point of view. GABNet effects change through
organizing, educating, fundraising, networking, and advocacy.
GABRIELA stands for...
General
Assembly
Binding women for
Reform,
Integrity,
Equality,
Leadership and
Action
It also commemorates Gabriela Silang, known as one of the first and
fiercest women generals in the Philippines who led the longest series of
successful revolts against 18th Century Spanish colonizers.
GABNet-US is an all-volunteer organization of women with chapters in
Chicago, Irvine, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, San Francisco/Bay Area,
Seattle and Washington D.C. ***
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