FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2008 Contact: Jason yap magsasakapil@hotmail.com Tel: 213-321-1551 FILIPINO AMERICAN COMMUNITY WITH THE AJLPP RALLY/PICKET AT LAX SHERATON VS US PUPPET-ARROYO REGIME LOS ANGELES- The Filipino American community and the ALLIANCE for a JUST and LASTING PEACE in the PHILIPPINES (AJLPP), ANSWER-LA and GABNET will turn out in full force this Friday, November 21, 2008, 6 PM, to picket and rally in front of the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, 6101 West Century Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045, to protest the presence of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the US.
PGMA- US Puppet Par Excellence
The AJLPP with ANSWER-LA in the strongest terms, militantly condemns the US-Arroyo utter neglect of the Filipino American community in the time of deep crisis in the United States. The US Arroyo regime instead of catering to the needs of the Filipino American community exacerbates their sufferings.
By promoting a labor/workers export program of OFW’s, following the dictates of World Bank-IMF, kowtowing to US “War on Terror polices and waging war against the Filipino people and miring the Philippines into a $ 51 B dollar debts and rampant graft and corruption the US puppet deserves our utmost contempt and condemnation. By being silent on the Filipino American community demand for amnesty and legalization of 12 million immigrants in the US, the US-Arroyo regime shows its brazen puppetry and mendicancy.
By mandating the use of English instead of Pilipino in schools in the Philippines, Arroyo is throwing back the Philippines into American colonial times and is turning the Philippines into one giant ”call enter” as its basic industry.
By not promoting Filipino Studies and Culture in the United States and fostering an escapist and colonial-feudal culture, the US-Arroyo is guilty of self-promotion as top US lackey and lapdog in Southeast Asia. By promoting the trafficking of women and children and promoting tourism, Arroyo made the Philippines one giant brothel for foreigners. In a final act of mendicancy last year, Macapagal-Arroyo in anticipation of the passage of the Filipino Veterans Equity bill and in order to grab the credit from real activists in the US, subserviently conferred the Philippines' highest awards to some congressional leaders in expectation of the passing of the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill. It did not pass and the promised benefits were removed from SB 1315.
Join us to protest US puppet Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo!
DATE: Friday, November 21, 2008 TIME: 6:00pm PLACE: Sheraton LAX Gateway Hotel.6101 West Century Blvd. LA, CA 90045
BE THERE! BRING SIGNS, NOSIEMAKERS, BANNERS AND STREAMERS!
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