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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>On the 20th anniversary of People
Power and the ouster of Marcos, a State of Emergency/Martial Law has been
declared in the Philippines. All rallies are banned. email
and texting curtailed. Massive rallies are happening anyway under
threat of violent dispersal.<br><br>
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RALLY AGAINST STATE OF EMERGENCY<br>
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WHEN: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 4 PM<br>
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WHERE: POWELL AND MARKET - 4<br>
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</x-tab>PHILIPPINE
CONSULATE - 5 (Sutter at Powell)<br><br>
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addition, people will be at the consulate all day, join us!<br><br>
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information call 415.216.7266 or 650-714-9151<br><br>
<b>NEW YORK<br>
Join Filipino New Yorkers in condemning the fascist Arroyo regime!<br>
5 pm - Friday February 24, 2006 <br>
Philippine Consulate in NY <br>
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<b>LOS ANGELES<br>
Condemn State of Emergency and Oust GMA<br>
12 pm Philippine Consulate in Los Angeles<br><br>
</b>To all community allies and supporters of the Filipino
people:<br><br>
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan USA Chapter declares overall failure and
disgrace of the Arroyo government as the Real State of National Emergency
which cannot stop third People Power ouster! <br>
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From across the ocean and within the borders of the U.S., BAYAN-USA
proudly stands with with thousands of Filpinos in the streets of Ayala
and EDSA yesterday on the 20th Anniversary of the first People Power
ouster of Dictator Ferdinand Marcos. We condemn in fullest terms
Gloria Arroyo's Proclomation 1017 of a National State of Emergency which
is short of declaring martial law and the first step towards authorizing
warrantless arrests, media takeover, dispersal of people's assemblies and
systematic suppression of the Filipino people's right to participate in
collective actions that go against Arroyo's wish to stay in power.<br>
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The Filipino peoople know that the real State of National Emergency
started when GMA took office from the ousted Joseph Estrada in
2001. This latest crisis development reveals more than she can hide
about her crisis-ridden and crumbling adminstration. GMA's
desperate measures come after a preventable mudslide which killed more
than 1500 in Leyte last week. She is responsible for Human Rights
Violations worse than the declared years of Martial Law under
Marcos. She has orchestrated a full blown economic crisis burying
the country in billions of dollars of foreign debt. Worst of all,
she continues to cling to power, holding on to a presidency discredited
with election fraud while escaping democratic impeachment. <br>
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Since she assumed the presidency, BAYAN-USA has participated in
international actions called by the growing People Power 3 movement in
the Philippines. Yesterday's People Power anniversary and OUST
actions are the result of escalating outrage from under poverty level
wages, joblessness, homelessness, high gas prices, the burden of value
added taxes on basic commodities and the failure to bring justice for the
gang rape of a Filipina woman by U.S Marines. There is nothing
spontaneous or surprising from the people's louder voices of dissent
which represent a courageous anti-fascist stand. We recognize the
most powerful way to honor the People Power Anniversary is to continue
the struggle against fascism in the brutal form of the Bush loyal GMA
regime. <br>
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There will be no denying People Power 3! Calibrated Preemptive
Response (CPR), state sponsored terrorism and political killings in the
Philippines, undeclared martial law and even arms and training by U.S.
troops in the Philippines will never quell the people's resistance and
will for national liberation and democracy and a just and lasting
peace. We call on the U.S and governments around the world to
withdraw support to the Arroyo government which proved to be best in
stealing, lying and cheating rather than governing the nation towards
genuine progress and<br>
democracy.<br><br>
OUST THE BRUTAL, FASCIST ARROYO REGIME<br>
ARROYO IS STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY IN THE PHILIPPINES!<br>
ESTABLISH THE TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL NOW!<br>
NO U.S. TAX DOLLARS TO FUND UNDECLARED MARTIAL LAW AND POLITICAL
REPRESSION!<br>
PEOPLE POWER 3 LIVES!<br>
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For more information, contact Kawal Ulanday at 510-914-4461<br><br>
<b>GABRIELA Network Opposes De Facto Martial Law!<br>
THE MOST ONEROUS EMERGENCY IN THE PHILIPPINES IS ITS DE FACTO
PRESIDENT<br>
</b>In an act of collective punishment, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, still
claiming the title and position of president of the Republic of the
Philippines despite the general perception that she cheated at the
elections, declared a “State of National Emergency through out the
archipelago. The so-called state of national emergency bans all
rallies and demonstrations; allows warrantless arrests;
seizure of private property including media outlets; and the usurpation
of civil authority by the Armed Forces of the Philippines on the say-so
of the alleged president. <br><br>
Even though the justification given was nebulous reports of an impending
coup by some military officers, Macapagal-Arroyo chose to afflict all of
the people of the 7,100 islands of the Philippines, murdering in one fell
swoop their guarantees of civil liberties, freedoms and human
rights. Proclamation 1017 on the state of national emergency called
on the Armed Forces of the Philippines “to quell all lawlessness,”
including a so-called conspiracy of the extreme Right and the Left.
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By any other name, it is martial law. No Philippine president
would, of course, dare undertake such a drastic grab for power without
the approval of its colonial master. It is no coincidence that this
comes while 5,500 US troops are in the Philippines, distributed in
strategic areas from north to south of the archipelago. It is the largest
number of US troops to be in the country in a decade. A meeting of
perversities can thus be found in this proclamation: Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo’s obscene desire to cling to power and the office of the
presidency, in the face of the Filipino people’s repeated and sustained
calls for her ouster; the desire of certain senior military officers to
wield political power and thus be able to enrich themselves; and the US
intent to open new bases in a territory close to the region’s vast oil
and natural gas reserves. These desires require constitutional
changes so vast that, among others, they effectively remove such
guarantees as freedom of the press. This meeting of political
perversities can only mean a war of terror on the Filipino people.
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GABRIELA Network condemns this pathetic and imitative ploy of Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo and her ilk to set themselves up as the new Philippine
dictatorship. We note how the shadow play that forms the backdrop
of this so-called state of emergency -- a shadow play of explosions that
injure no one; of alleged conspiracies of such disparate elements
as the left and the right; of coup attempts by military officers never
court-martialed for their actions – all are redolent of the stink of the
dictatorship of the late Ferdinand E. Marcos. No wonder
Macapagal-Arroyo was buzzing cheek-to-cheek with Imelda Marcos at a
recent public event.<br><br>
GABRIELA Network calls on Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to be mindful of the
Filipino people’s long and historic struggle for genuine democracy and
liberation; of the sacrifice that has sustained the national democratic
movement for forty years; of the increasing overt truth that the
socio-economic structure in the Philippines is not viable; and of the
Filipino people’s repeated and sustained calls for her
ouster. The fervor with which her ouster has been sought by
the people should convince Macapagal-Arroyo that, as of now, the most
grievous disaster to afflict the Philippines is her own self.
She should step down and bring political relief to this much-beleaguered
country. <br><br>
GABRIELA Network condemns this handover of political power to the Armed
Forces of the Philippines, elements of which have fed at the trough of US
military aid for decades. GABRIELA Network calls on all men and
women who believe in true democracy and liberation to join us in opposing
this de facto president’s declaration of de facto martial
law. <br>
Join us in mass actions against the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo regime and
against the schemes of multinational corporations to use US foreign
policy to loot the resources of poor and underdeveloped nations.<br><br>
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Arroyo declares state of emergency <br>
Feb 24, 2006 <br>
Updated 11:24am (Mla time) <br>
Gil Cabacungan Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
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INQ7.net<br>
(2nd UPDATE) PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared a state of
emergency Friday to quell a military uprising that sought to overthrow
her administration. Arroyo's declaration is contained in Proclamation
1017, which she signed after a lengthy meeting with Cabinet members and
police and military officials in Malacañang, Press Secertary Ignacio
Bunye said.<br>
In the declaration released to media at 11:20 a.m., Arroyo invoked
Section 18, Article 7 of the Constitution that allowed the President to
call on the armed forces to prevent or suppress rebellion.<br><br>
The proclamation will also pave the way for warrantless arrests,
government takeover of utilities, including media, and a ban on rallies,
Presidential Chief of Staff Michael Defensor said.<br><br>
Arroyo said that over the past months, "elements in the political
opposition had conspired with authoritarians of the extreme Left
represented by the [National Democratic Front-Communist Party of the
Philippines-New People's Army] and the extreme Right, represented by
military adventurists -- the historic enemies of the democratic
Philippine State -- who are now in a tactical alliance and engaged in a
concerted and systematic conspiracy, over a broad front, to bring down
the duly constituted government elected in May 2004." <br><br>
She also noted that "the claims of these elements had been
recklessly magnified by certain segments of the national
media."<br>
She said these series of actions were hurting the country "by
obstructing governance, including hindering the growth of the economy and
sabotaging the people's confidence in government."<br>
Arroyo said the situation was under control.<br><br>
Earlier on Friday, Defensor said authorities were hunting down 8 to 10
civilians and military officers allegedly linked to the coup plot,
including their financiers.<br><br>
Reporters covered the President's declaration from the Arlegui
guesthouse, a few meters away from the Palace.<br><br>
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