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Soldiers ‘Abducted, Tortured’ Fil-Am Activist

Soldiers ‘Abducted, Tortured’ Fil-Am Activist


“I thought I was going to die there and then,” Melissa Roxas says. “They held my feet and my hands down and doubled-up plastic bags were pulled down on my head and face and closed on my neck and I started to suffocate and I could not breathe anymore and I was seeing white and thinking I was going to die.” | JOHN EDWARD JANDOC, MELISSA'S COMPANION, REMAINS MISSING

10 Years On, VFA Only Served US Interests

10 Years On, VFA Only Served US Interests


Activists protesting the VFA.

Has the Visiting Forces Agreement served its avowed purpose? Or has it only reinforced the unequal alliance between the Philippines and the United States, a relationship so tilted in the Americans’ favor that to call the VFA an agreement -- with all the word’s connotation of equal rights, benefits and privileges -- would be a travesty?

Scrap the VFA!

Scrap the VFA!

Press Release/ May 26, 2009 In September 1991, I was one of the tens of thousands of jubilant, soaking wet people who gathered outside the Senate when the historic vote was taken to not renew the bases treaty with the US. It was quite a night, marking the...

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