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EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT!!!!<br><br>
Release Jose Maria "Joma" Sison!!! Arrested Last
Night!!!<br><br>
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 <br><br>
please bring your statements and placards<br><br>
DEFEND JOSE MARIA SISON and ALL FILIPINO PROGRESSIVES!<br><br>
organized by Committee Defend in New York, NY Committee for Human Rights
in the Philippines, and BAYAN USA <br><br>
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News Release August 28, 2007<br><br>
Reference: Berna Ellorin, Secretary-General, BAYAN USA, email:
<a href="mailto:secgen@bayanusa.org">secgen@bayanusa.org </a><br><br>
RELEASE JOMA SISON!!! --- BAYAN USA Fil-Am Alliance Condemns Dubious
Arrest of NDF Political Consultant<br><br>
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. <br><br>
The alliance further condemned the raiding of homes by the Dutch police
of the NDF personnel.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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).<br><br>
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. <br><br>
"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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
"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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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.
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For more information, contact BAYAN USA at info @
<a href="http://bayanusa.org">bayanusa.org</a>. <br><br>
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