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CALL OBAMA TODAY! Tell him to VETO the NDAA!

Democracy Now!: Obama Prepares to Authorize Indefinite Detention

Sisters and Brothers,

A serious attack on our civil liberties is underway and President Obama plans to sign it into law on Monday, December 26. Congress recently passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which has a provision that allows the president to authorize the military to detain anyone suspected of ‘terrorism’ indefinitely, inside or outside the United States, without trial. 

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression urges you to contact President Obama and demand he veto “indefinite detention without trial.”

We need to do everything in our power to push back against repression.  Under the guise of preventing ‘terrorism’ our democratic rights are being taken away.  We have seen this in the case of the 24 anti-war and international solidarity activists who were raided by the FBI and/or called to the grand jury investigating “material support for Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”  We have seen this in the prosecution of veteran Chicano activist Carlos Montes in Los Angeles.

Over the past decade this repression has led to the jailing or deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims.  We need to say enough is enough. We need a presidential veto.

This type of repression happened before in 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the U.S. military to round up 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps, without charges or trials. Years later a U.S. government commission called this a result of “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

Let President Obama know: “I do not want indefinite detention without trial to become law. Veto the National Defense Authorization Act.”

Call President Obama at 202-456-1111

Thanks for your immediate action,

your friends at the Committee to Stop FBI Repression.

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Attention San Diego!  Please sign this petition and “Like” this facebook page to support domestic workers!  Support AB 889! 

The last time I was in the Philippines was in 2006 when I participated in the Philippine Studies Program organized by Philippine Forum in conjunction with UP Diliman.  The experiences from this trip stay with me to this date, of course.  It had opened up to me the small -yet grand- world that is the collective of Filipin@s/Fil-Ams that struggle for national democracy in the Philippines.

Before boarding the bus that took us to Banaue, I briefly spoke with my dad about where I was about to go.  He sounded really excited for me, saying, “you know, in all my 22 years of living in the Philippines, I’ve never been there.  I’ve never seen the rice terraces.”  I was 22 at the time and about to embark on a journey that probably no person in my family has ever taken.  Many of our parents immigrated in search of a better life for their family, their children.  How many of those parents ever planned for their own children to return to their homeland?  How many of those parents ever planned for their children to support the struggle of those who remain behind? 

The Philippine Studies Program is currently on hiatus, but I hope this changes.  Programs like these open up opportunities for children of Filipino immigrants to experience the Philippines, from visiting historical sites, taking language/cultural classes, to meeting the masa. 

Happy 5 years, PSPSIL06!  MAY THE FORCE STILL BE WITH YOU!