[Ppnews] Wed. 8/29 - Defend Filipino Progressives! Demo to support Jose Maria Sison, NYC

[Political Prisoner News]

EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT!!!!

Release Jose Maria "Joma" Sison!!! Arrested Last Night!!!

Condemnation Picket in Front of the Dutch Consulate in New York 
Wednesday, August 29th, 4pm 11 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan 
Trains: B/D/F/V/N/R to Rockefeller Plaza

please bring your statements and placards

DEFEND JOSE MARIA SISON and ALL FILIPINO PROGRESSIVES!

organized by Committee Defend in New York, NY Committee for Human 
Rights in the Philippines, and BAYAN USA

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News Release August 28, 2007

Reference: Berna Ellorin, Secretary-General, BAYAN USA, email: 
<mailto:secgen at bayanusa.org>secgen at bayanusa.org

RELEASE JOMA SISON!!! --- BAYAN USA Fil-Am Alliance Condemns Dubious 
Arrest of NDF Political Consultant

The US Chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, or BAYAN USA, an 
alliance of over 12 Filipino organizations in the US, vehemently 
condemned the arrest of the National Democratic Front Chief Political 
Consultant Jose Maria Sison last night by the Dutch Police on false 
charges of multiple murders.

The alliance further condemned the raiding of homes by the Dutch 
police of the NDF personnel.

Sison was arrested last night for multiple murders of Romulo Kintanar 
and Arturo Tabara. Police say Sison ordered the murders from the 
Netherlands back in 2003. Sison will be put on trial in the 
Netherlands, not the Philippines.

While the New People's Army has already come forward with admittance 
to the killings, Sison maintains he is not in the leadership of the 
NPA nor the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

BAYAN USA maintains the real reasons for Sison's arrest are political 
not criminal. Emergency actions will also be set at Dutch consulates 
across the country calling for Sison's immediate release.

"Behind the actions of the Dutch police is the Arroyo government, 
which since its ascendency has been in pursuit of Joma Sison and 
worked tirelessly to subdue his meaning to the people," states BAYAN 
USA Chair Chito Quijano.

The alliance, a member of the International League of Peoples 
Struggle, an international organization of which Sison serves as 
Chair, has been calling for a de-listing of Sison from the US and EU 
terrorist lists.

"It is in every interest of the US and Arroyo governments to confine 
Professor Sison for his politics. As the Chief Political Consultant 
to the organization that comprises one half of the stalled NDF-GRP 
peace negotiations, the Arroyo government is declaring to the world 
it is not interested in resuming peace talks," Quijano added.

BAYAN USA has also supported the resumption of peace talks between 
the NDF and GRP. The Arroyo administration just recently called to 
intensify the all-out war in Mindanao under the auspices of the US 
War on Terror as a measure to raise its annual pork barrel of 
military aid from the US government.

BAYAN USA also asserted it's been a year of hot water for the Arroyo 
administration, with isolation from human rights watchdogs such as 
the UNHRC, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and even a US 
Senate hearing that may influence US military aid to the Philippines. 
Sison, a political refugee in the Netherlands for nearly 20 years, 
has been one of the most famous and vocal critics of the Arroyo regime.

Earlier this year, a European court nullified Sison's terrorist 
listing. Since his listing of 2001, Sison had his assets frozen and 
right to work stripped. Sison remains on the US State Department's 
terrorist list.

For more information, contact BAYAN USA at info @ 
<http://bayanusa.org>bayanusa.org.



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