{"article":{"id":214830,"heading":"Pesante-USA Solidarity Statement on LA International Women\u2019s Day March","author":"Pesante-USA","created":"2008-03-09 22:31:23","modified":"2013-11-11 00:53:03","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:53:03","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Pesante-USA Solidarity Statement on LA International Women&rsquo;s Day March <br><br> Los Angeles&mdash;The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante)-USA militantly expresses it solidarity  with the International Women&rsquo;s March led by the MARIPOSA Alliance and Gabriela Network in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 8. <br><br> The  Los Angeles March 8th Against the War  march will start on Saturday, AM, March 8 at the corner of Olympic and Broadway and end at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. There will be another march in New York on the same day. <br><br> We in the Pesante USA also commemorate the first women&rsquo;s march in the United States was held exactly one hundred years ago. Also on  March 8. 1971,we remember, the first women&rsquo;s march was held for the first time in the in the Philippines.  It was led by MAKIBAKA before martial law.  <br><br> Pesante expressed militant solidarity with the Filipino organizations in the Philippines who are opposed to  US  imperialist intervention and are calling for the ouster of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her corrupt regime on March 8 in major cities of the country.  <br><br> Pesante express its strongest condemnation on the US-Arroyo puppet, fascist and corrupt regime who refused to speak for women and are quiet on the blantat violations of US servicemen against Filipinas and other nation&rsquo;s women like the recent cases in Okinawa. .  <br><br> Pesante pays tribute to all fighting women. The names of Ines Carinugan, Gabriela Silang, Generala Tecson of Bulacan, Generala agueda Kahabagan of Laguna. General Teresa Magbanua of Panay. Gregoria De Jesus, the Lakambini of the Katipunan;  Commander Waling Waling;Comannder Dayang-Dayang, Josefa Llanes Escoda, Maria Lorena Barros, Liliosa Hilao,Liza Balando,Carolina Visaya, Filomena Asuncion and countless maryrs and heroines will always be forever etched in our people&rsquo;s hearts.    <br><br> Let this Los Angeles historic women&rsquo;s March  8th March Against the War be a fighting tribute to all women everywhere . To their tenacity in &rdquo;holding half-the sky&rdquo; and working for a better world for the future.   <br><br> MAKIBAKA HUWAG MATAKOT! <br><br> For more info about Pesante-USA please contact Al P. Garcia at (415) 309-5835 or email at <a href=\"mailto:magsasakapil@hotmail.com\">magsasakapil@hotmail.com<\/a> <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"magsasakapil@hotmail.com","link":"","address":"337 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026","phone":"213-241-0906","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Los Angeles\u2014The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante)-USA militantly expresses it solidarity  with the International Women\u2019s March led by the MARIPOSA Alliance and Gabriela Network in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 8.\r\n\r\nThe  Los Angeles March 8th Against the War  march will start on Saturday, AM, March 8 at the corner of Olympic and Broadway and end at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. There will be another march in New York on the same day.\r\n\r\nWe in the Pesante USA also commemorate the first women\u2019s march in the United States was held exactly one hundred years ago. Also on  March 8. 1971,we remember, the first women\u2019s march was held for the first time in the in the Philippines.  It was led by MAKIBAKA before martial law. ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/03\/214830.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}