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OFWs Call for the release of detained Activists

OFWs Call for the release of detained Activists

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Started by Anonymous 17 years, 9 months ago
Migrante, OFWs and their families denounce continued political persecution of activists We oppose and will act against the tyrannical hand of Arroyo regime victimizing activists, and warn the inclusion of migrant rights leaders and advocates to be victims of its tyrannical rule. Overseas Filipino workers and their families cannot and could not remain silent in the midst of the continued repression and political persecution of peace-loving activists who have done nothing wrong but who have unselfishly offered their lives and time for the establishment of a just, democratic, and peaceful Philippines. The series of reported cases of arbitrary arrest due to trumped up cases filed against activists from Southern Tagalog have reached to the information and concern of our overseas Filipino workers around the world. We, OFWs along with our families, are duty-bound to raise our concerns and worries on the implications of the worsening political repression and persecution of freedom-loving Filipinos. The Filipino communities around the world are duty-bound to denounce, oppose and expose the continued political persecution and forced disappearances of those working for a just and democratic Philippines. Officers and members of Migrante chapters in the Middle East along with their families appeal to all fellow OFWs to denounce the Arroyo regime and its military and police elements that have unlawfully arrested and detained Ka Randy Ecahnis, Atty. Saladero, as well as the arbitrary arrest of 72 activists as a clear act crippling even the most basic human rights against warrant-less arrest as guaranteed by the Philippine Constitution's Bill or Rights. The Arroyo regime has been widely and internationally criticized due to its worsening records of rights abuses, political killings of activists and journalists and numerous cases of disappearances. Now as the people's discontent are growing and the mass movement taking a leap and ready to oust her, the Arroyo regime desperate enough to clinging in power resorted to a new type of political persecution by filling trump up cases against activists; and its military and police forces have gone berserk by arresting arbitrarily perceived political dissenters and those critical to its administration. We also protests the connivance of Globe Telecommunications company with the Arroyo regime's police elements that provided distorted facts on its complaints pointing to detained activists the crime they did not commit or even do not know. Migrante chapters in the entire Middle East are now contemplating and make ready to call our fellow 8 million OFWs all around the world and their families in the homeland to boycott the services and products of Globe, if it will not withdraw the trumped up charges filed against its innocent victims. OFWs canâ

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November 22, 2008

The momentum we have built proves that OFWs are not staying silent while our activists are targeted. Post this petition on your Facebook wall today and email your local representative to demand the immediate release of those wrongfully detained.

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Elena Tate
17 years ago Featured

It is heartbreaking to see our brothers and sisters treated like criminals just for speaking the truth. Arroyo has to go.

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Maria Hart
17 years ago Featured

Stop the harassment now! These people are fighting for our own families back home. We are watching what is happening and we wont forget.

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Jun Moore
17 years ago Featured

FREE THEM ALL. trumped up charges again like always. nakakasawa na ang ganitong sistema sa pinas.

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