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[OPIRG-EVENTS] FW: Invitation to a Public Forum on the Philippines - Tues. May 14 @ 6:30 pm
The Ontario Committee for Human rights in the Philippines and Pilipino
Migrante sa Canada (PMSC) invite you to a Public Forum this coming Tuesday
May 14th (6:30 pm). The forum entitled
Reflections on American Troops in the Philippines will take place at the
First United Church (397 Kent Ave). The discussion features:
Capt Danilo Vizmanos (Ret)
Dan describes himself as the typical "American boy" who considered the
United States as the liberator of the Philippines. Now retired, Captain
Danilo Vizmanos is one of those actively calling for the immediate
withdrawal of US troops from the country.
Dan is the Secretary General of SELDA an organization of former political
detainees, and he was a leader in the campaign to oust the US bases from the
Philippines.
Sharon Rose Joy Ruiz-Duremdes,
Sharon is the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in the
Philippines. She graduated from the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School in
California, USA in 1973 and was a member of Faculty at the Central
Philippine University, College of Theology. In 1984, at the height of the
Marcos dictatorship, she joined the people's movement for social
transformation.
Date: Tuesday May 14th:
Time: 6:30 to 8:30
Place: First United Church
397 Kent St. (One block north of Gladstone)
Sponsored by: Ontario Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (OCHRP),
Philippine Migrants Society of Canada (PMSC) and The Philippines
Ottawa-Solidarity and Support Effort (POSSE)
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