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Independence Day at Slocan Park 2010 Slocan Park, Vancouver, B.C. Canada June 12, 2010
by migrante.bc Migrante BC and the Canada-Phils Solidarity for Human Rights shared one tent at the June 12 Independence Day event at Slocan Park. We distributed our June 12 statements, collected signatures for the Free the Health Workers 43 petition and served pancit to the public. Lots of fun. Migrante B.C.'s June 12 Statement --see below. View Album
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HOPES in the REMEMBRANCE OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE |
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June 12, 2001*
Migrante B.C. CANADA
A lot of hope is riding on the newly proclaimed President Benigno “Noynoy”Aquino III, the 15th President of the Philippines. After nine “Gloria Arroyo years,” the national sigh of relief that Arroyo is no longer in Malacanang Palace is heard loud and clear. Those years are marked by poverty, unemployment, corruption, extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances committed under a culture of impunity, the abuse of public trust, and a counter-insurgency operation designed to eliminate all her critics.
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"Dukot is more than the story of two families. It is the story of a people in a country where something is going terribly wrong, where the State, whose duty it is to protect its citizens, does the opposite” wrote the Vancouver Organizing Committee in the movie's souvenir program.
After intense media coverage and film screenings in Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, the five-city Canadian tour of the multi-awarded Philippine film Dukot made its last stop in the beautiful city of Vancouver. Philippine community and solidarity organizations in Canada, in collaboration with the Dukot's Philippine producers, organized this tour. In Vancouver, these were the Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights, MIGRANTE BC, BAYAN-Canada and the Victoria-Philippines Solidarity Group. The film screenings generated overwhelming support from the community, from academic centres, public officials, small businesses, political coalitions, private individuals, media and other non-profit organizations. |
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Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines |
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Philippine NGOs Bring Morong 43 and Other HRV Cases to the Attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva A group of Philippine NGOs that comprise the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (Ecumenical Voice for brevity), will send a 5-member delegation to attend the 14th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, and which will be held on May 31- June 18, 2010. The Philippines is presently a member of the said UN body. The delegation is headed by the Rev. Fr. Rex Reyes, Jr., General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), with Marie Hilao Enriquez, Chairperson of the human rights alliance, KARAPATAN, Atty. Edre Olalia, Acting Secretary General of the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL), Atty. Carlos Zarate, Secretary General of the Union of People’s Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM) and one of the lawyers for Atty. Connie Brizuela who was among the victims of the Ampatuan massacre; Roneo ‘Jigs’ Clamor, Deputy Secretary General of KARAPATAN and husband of Dr. Merry Mia-Clamor, one of the Morong 43, as members. As the curtain falls on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s 9-year rule, it is most certain that among others, it shall be marked as the worst in terms of adherence to human rights instrumentalities. With the implementation of Oplan Bantay Laya (Operation Freedom Watch), the most vicious counterinsurgency program in recent memory, her government tops the scale of human rights violators in the country’s history since the martial law years,” declared Fr, Rex Reyes, Jr. |
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