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Title: JFAV Rally at Downtown Los Angeles VA Out Patient
START DATE: 5/8/2007
START TIME: 12:00 PM
Duration: 1 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:

JFAV RALLY for Veterans Rights And Equity!
TUESDAY May 8 LOS ANGELES
NOON to 2 PM
L.A. VA Outpatient Clinic
135 East Temple St.
Contacts: Arturo P. Garcia (213)241-0906
Franco ARCEBAL 213 626-0485
& Faustino BACLIG 213 487-9804
Event Topic: health care
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Al P. Garcia
Contact Email: jfav_causa@hotmail.com
Contact Phone: 213-241-0906
DESCRIPTION:
U.S. Filipino Veterans to Protest

Bush-Nicholson Opposition to Equity Bills

TUESDAY May 8 LOS ANGELES

NOON to 2 PM

L.A. VA Outpatient Clinic

135 East Temple St.

Contacts: Arturo P. Garcia (213)241-0906

Franco ARCEBAL 213 626-0485

& Faustino BACLIG 213 487-9804

The US Veterans Administration (USVA) and the White House is openly opposing the Veterans Equity Bill that has been languishing in the US Congress for the last 60 years. In the US Senate Hearing last April 11, the USVA representatives bloated and misrepresented the budget for Filipino veterans by saying that $ 510 Million is needed for the equity bill while the veterans bill needs only $ 200 million budget.

11,000 remaining Filipino World War II veterans in the United States together with the 54,000 living in the Philippines, stronlgy condemns the USVA and the White House opposition to the equity bill. Will never let their injustice pass and will conduct mass actions against such opposition from May 6 -9.2007 in key cities of the United States .

Other mass actions slated are:

SAN FRANCISCO - On Monday May 7 at 10:30 A.M.,

elderly Filipino World War II veterans and their

supporters will rally at the San Francisco Fort

Miley VA Medical Center to protest the opposition

of the Bush Administration and VA Secretary

Nicholson to their pension bills in Congress.

MONDAY May 7 SAN FRANCISCO

10:30 A.M.-12 NOON

Fort Miley VA Medical Center

4150 Clement St. (near Geary)

Contact: Regino NACUA 415 221-4499

Dominador VALDEZ 408 251-0215

WEDNESDAY May 9 SAN DIEGO

La Jolla VA Medical Center TBA

Contacts: Avelino ASUNCION 858-271-8378

& Aurora Cudal 619 861-0672

The elderly veterans are seeking full recognition

of their U.S. military service that would provide

them VA disability pensions and are campaigning

for their family reunification bill.

The House of Represenatives and Senate had

held hearings on their bills, S. 57 and H.R. 760,

in February and April, according to the American

Coalition for Filipino Veterans, a

Washington-based advocacy group.

Their leaders are intensifying their actions and

lobbying their senators in Seattle, Honolulu,

Chicago, Houston, Jersey and New York. They will

mark the anniversary of 65th anniversary of the

Corregidor Day of Valor when American forces were

overwhelmed by Japanese invaders on May 6, 1942.

The JFAV and theACFV coalition is also campaigning for the

Family Reunification bill S. 671- H.R. 1287. The

Senate leadership has tentatively set debates on

immigration bills in mid May.

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