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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the attempts to criminalize Professor Jose Maria Sison, a leading figure in the struggle to liberate the Philippines from foreign domination and to establish a just society.
Fight Back News Service is reprinting the following statement by Jose Maria Sison, a key leader in the fight to free the Philippines from U.S. domination. Over the past week large demonstrations have taken place in the Philippines demanding that the president, Gloria M. Arroyo, step down.
Every progressive person should condemn the arrest of Professor Jose Maria Sison by authorities in the Netherlands. Sison’s arrest by Dutch police on trumped-up murder charges is an attempt to criminalize the liberation movement of the Philippines and to silence the voice of the Philippines’s most important revolutionary. Professor Sison has lived as a political refugee in the Netherlands for 20 years. It is the hidden hand of the Bush administration that is pressuring the Netherlands to take actions against Sison, including freezing his bank account and stripping him of his right to work. This arrest is political, not criminal.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the arrest of Professor Sison, a well-known leader of the struggle to free the Philippines from exploitation and foreign domination.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by Jose Maria Sison. Sison is a leading figure in the movement to free the Philippines from United States domination. The Bush administration has falsely accused Sison of ‘terrorism’ and is trying to criminalize the Filipino people’s fight for national liberation.
New York, NY - More than 50 people rallied at the Philippine consulate, Sept. 21, to protest U.S. military intervention in the Philippines. One of the demands raised was for an end to U.S.-orchestrated moves against exiled progressive Filipinos, such as Jose Maria Sison, who have found refuge in the Netherlands. The U.S. State Department has falsely charged that Sison, a key leader in the fight to create a just society in the Philippines, is a 'terrorist.' As a result, the internationally known scholar, poet and founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has had his personal bank account seized and lost his housing. The possibility exists that he may be extradited to the United States. A worldwide movement is being built in his defense.