[WCUSP] HUMAN SECURITY ACT PUTS LEADERS OF GABRIELA NETWORK-USA ON RP

[yvonne simmons]

----- Dear All, WILPF has worked with Gabriela
Yvonne.Barb I am in Portland but have no word from Luz
yet but the earthquake damage was more in Ica. There
was earthquake activity in July before we went to
Congress.
> From: Elahe Amani 
> 
> 
> Dear friends--
> 
> This is a very important news.  As Meza said in her
> an interview, the leaders of Gabriela network, a
> radical women network which I first heard their name
> at the Beijing Conference are among the first batch
> of victims of the Human Security Act.  Before one
> can prevented leaving the country only if he/she has
> committed a crime and there are charges already
> filed against you.  Now, what this demonstrates is
> that on mere suspicion or by your mere association
> to a group critic of US administration, you can be
> held against your will.
> 
> 
> Peace,
> Elahe
> 
> http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/08/204246.php
> 
> HUMAN SECURITY ACT PUTS LEADERS OF GABRIELA
> NETWORK-USA ON RP
> by Faith Santilla Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007 at 10:30 PM 
> faithsantilla at yahoo.com (626) 353-2649 408 de la
> Fuente St., Monterey Park, CA 91754
> 
>   USC Professor and activist plus two others are
> restricted from leaving the Philippines
> 
> NEWS RELEASE 
> 11 August 2007 
> 
> For Reference: REP. LIZA LARGOZA MAZA 0920-9134540 
> Jang Monte (Public Information Officer) 0915-6462009
> 
> 
> HUMAN SECURITY ACT PUTS LEADERS OF GABRIELA
> NETWORK-USA ON RP 
> WATCHLIST 
> 
> GABRIELA Women's Partylist Representative Liza
> Largoza Maza deplored 
> the Philippine government's hold departure order
> against GABRIELA 
> Network USA chairperson Dr. Analisa Enrile and two
> other leaders of 
> the women's international solidarity group. 
> 
> "She has been restricted from going home to her
> family and her job 
> in the United States for no apparent reason. This
> blatant violation 
> of her right to travel, is but pure harassment, a
> sample 
> demonstration of the horrendous powers that this
> government can 
> abuse with the Human Security Act," said Maza in a
> press conference 
> with Dr. Analisa Enrile. Joining them are two of the
> founders of 
> GABRIELA Network, award winning novelist Ninotchka
> Rosca and human 
> rights advocate Judith Mirkinson. 
> 
> Enrile who was scheduled to leave the country Aug.
> 5, was not 
> allowed to leave as her name was allegedly on a
> watchlist released 
> by the Department of Justice, Bureau of Immigration
> and Deportation, 
> National Intelligence Coordinating Agency and the
> Armed Forces of 
> the Philippines. Along with Enrile, both Rosca and
> Mirkinson are 
> also on the reported watchlist. All three were also
> part of the 
> organizers of the All-women US Lawyer's Human Rights
> Mission in the 
> Philippines last year during the height of the
> implementation of the 
> Presidential Proclamation 1017. 
> 
> "They are now among the first batch of victims of
> the Human Security 
> Act. Before this law, one can be prevented from
> leaving the country 
> only if you have committed a crime and there are
> charges already 
> filed against you. Now, what this demonstrates is
> that on mere 
> suspicion or by your mere association to a group
> identified as a 
> staunch critic of this administration, such as
> GABRIELA, you can be 
> held against your will," said Maza. 
> 
> Leaders and members of the GABRIELA Network USA were
> in the country 
> since July to attend the Women's International
> Solidarity Affair in 
> the Philippines sponsored by the militant women's
> group GABRIELA. 
> 
> "The Human Security Act has emboldened the
> Anti-Terrorism Council to 
> politically harass critics, spreading its repressive
> tentacles 
> beyond borders and undermining the universally held
> principle of 
> international solidarity." 
> 
> GABRIELA Women's Party representatives Maza and Luz
> Ilagan along 
> with other partylist groups Bayan Muna and Anakpawis
> have filed a 
> bill to repeal the Human Security Act.# 
> 
> 
> 
> www.myspace.com/gabnetla
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