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Sulyap Sa Kalayaan
A Glimpse of Freedom
From: International Action Center
Subject: A Glimpse of Freedom - Sulyap Sa Kalayaan
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:19:52 -0400
An Interactive Forum on Political Repression in the Philippines
with Professor Jose Maria Sison and Invited Speaker Philippine
Congressman Crispin "Ka Bel' Beltran
(via skype video-conferencing)
Organized by the US Chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN
USA), Anakbayan NY/NJ, the International Action Center, and the
International League of People's Struggle (ILPS)
When: July 29th, 2007
Where: International Action Center's Solidarity Center, 55 West 17th
Street, bet. 6th and 7th Aves in Manhattan
With the recent ruling by the a European Court de-listing exiled
Philippine leader Jose Maria Sison from the EU foreign terrorist list
and the Philippine Supreme Court's ruling against the sedition and
rebellion charges against Philippine labor leader Ka Bel, the
US-Arroyo regime, the number one proponent to the expansion of the US
War on Terror to the Asia Pacific region is suffering major blows by
way of a massive people's movement for human rights in the
Philippines as abroad.
The international front is also striking blows with the recent
reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the US Sentae
Hearings, and the verdict by the Permanent People's Tribunal that all
indicate the Arroyo military's primary role in perpetuating the
national pattern of extra-judicial killings that have now claimed
nearly 900 lives of human rights defenders since 2001.
Now with the implementation of the Human Security Act of 2007, the
Philippines will become the testing ground for the foreign versions
of the US Patriot and Homeland Security Acts, opening the country to
the rotten domestic policies of state-sanction terrorism and the
arbitrary curtailment of civil liberties.
Join us for a discussion with two of the Philippines most prominent
anti-imperialist leaders and recent victors over Arroyo-sanctioned
political repression in the Philippines.
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