Nov. 14: A Forum on Filipino Women & Youth Organizing

Nov. 14, 7-9 PM

Trans- national Organizing in Times of War: The Filipino Women &
Youth's Experience

A forum with Emmi De Jesus, Secretary General, GABRIELA-Philippines

Brooks Hall, Brooks Living Room
Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, btwn 116 & 120 Sts.

(Take the uptown 1 train to 116 St /Columbia University. Exit on the west side of Broadway. Use the Barnard campus entrance before the main gate. Enter through Hewitt to get to Brooks. Need ID to enter.)

Emmi de Jesus, Secretary General of GABRIELA Philippines, gives a first-hand account of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's (GMA) massive record of gross human rights violations and anti-people policies and how it is wreaking havoc in the lives of the people in the Philippines, esp. the women and youth.
GABRIELA Philippines is the largest and only multi-sectoral women's alliance in the country. Leading the most militant and strongest women's liberation movement in Asia, it has about 200 women's organizations, women's desks and women's institutions under its umbrella.

(Chairperson Emmi de Jesus and Women Legal Bureau's Atty. Evalyn Ursua lead the signing of the VOW-CL Unity Statement. Photos: Arkibong Bayan)


This event is free and open to the public. Seats are limited. Please RSVP by Nov. 11 to Riya Ortiz at ugnayan_nyc @ yahoo.com.
This forum is organized by Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland) NY/NJ in coordination with Gabriela Network NY/NJ, Center for Research on Women (Barnard College), and Department of Womens Studies (Barnard College).