From: Bayan Canada <bayan.canada.noc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Subject: BAYAN Canada launches awareness campaign
To: bayan.canada.noc@gmail.com
BAYAN Canada launches awareness campaign
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"Never again to Martial Law in the Philippines"
Full press release attached and posted complete with photos at:
http://byncan.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/never-again-to-martial-law-in-the-philippines/
Excerpts:
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To mark the 37th anniversary declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Canada member organizations are holding rallies, study sessions, coffee house discussions, public fora and photo exhibits in different cities in Canada...
...September 21, 1972 is a dark period in Philippine history when the United States-backed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law. The dictatorship marked more than a decade reign of military terror that saw mass abductions, arrests, torture and detention of political opponents and activists that resisted it.
...In the Philippines, in less than a decade under the US-Macapagal-Arroyo regime, there have been more than 1,000 cases of extra-judicial killings, 202 enforced disappearances, 1,036 torture, and 223 political prisoners.
***Also attached; photos from Toronto rally and "Peace Tour" events in Winnipeg, and statements from Pilipinong Migrante sa Barrie and the Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights.
