JAMBY MADRIGAL ATTACKS ARROYO STATE TERRORISM AND U.S. IMPERIALISM
SENATOR JAMBY MADRIGAL BLASTS MACAPAGAL-ARROYO STATE TERRORISM AND U.S. DOMINATION OF THE PHILIPPINES “Huwag po nating payagan na bumalik tayo sa kadiliman at takot na dinala ng martial law. Panahon na upang tumindig at lumaban.” --Senator Jamby Madrigal, “Martial Law in the Guiuse of Anti-Terrorism Bill,” Joint Statement with Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Legend Restaurant, Oct 9, 2006 BY E. SAN JUAN, Jr. (with an interview by Dr. Rainer Werning) Last June 26, we attended a historic rally-demonstration of over 4,000 people in Washington, DC. called “Day of Action to Restore Law and Justice.” It was the first national mass mobilization of this kind undertaken by the American Civil Liberties Union, a rather staid institution, in cooperation with Amnesty International (USA), Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. It was a coalition representing a fairly broad spectrum of left to right civil-society lobbying groups. A petition bearing ...