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Posted on 23-9-2004
Phillipines Speaker Not To Be missed
Marie Hilao-Enriquez is the head of Karapatan, one of the biggest and best
known human rights groups in the Philippines, and also of Selda, the
organisation of former political prisoners from the 1970s and 80s martial
law dictatorship of the late Ferdinand Marcos. Marie herself was a Marcos
prisoner and her family suffered badly (one sister was murdered by the
military, another two siblings were imprisoned). Marie has been a leading
figure in the Philippine human rights movement for the past 30 years. She
travels the world on its behalf. Most recently, she has done a speaking
tour of the US and Canada; addressed the UN Committee on Human Rights; and
is an official observer at the Oslo peace talks between the Philippine
Government and the Communist-led National Democratic Front (there has been
a civil war for 35 years). For full details on Marie, including her
fascinating CV, click on this Link
The Bush Administration is running amok and using war as its first
response in any situation it doesn't like. In the early 1990s, a massive
people's movement ended nearly a century of US military bases in the
Philippines. But Bush and his allies in the Philippines are using the "War
On Terror" and the decades-old armed struggle being waged by Muslim
separatists in the south as a pretext to get back in. Human rights have
been trampled on. Marie Hilao-Enriquez's tour presents an exciting
opportunity to hear first hand from a leading Majority World human rights
activist.
ITINERARY
Monday October 4 - Dunedin. Dunningham Suite, Dunedin Public Library
(Fourth Floor), 230 Moray Place. 7.30 p.m. Contact: Maureen Howard, ph
(03) 4778502 (w); fax (03) 4778958 (w); e-mail: metiria@southnet.co.nz
Tuesday 5 - Christchurch. Trade Union Centre (First Floor), 199 Armagh
Street. 8 p.m. Contact: Murray Horton, ph/fax (03) 3663988 (day/night);
e-mail: cafca@chch.planet.org.nz
Wednesday 6 - Nelson. St John's Church Hall, Hardy Street, 7.30 p.m.
Contact: Anne FitzSimon, ph (03) 5390527; mobile 021 1123890; e-mail:
Thursday 7- Wellington. Loaves and Fishes, Hill Street. 7 p.m. Contact:
Lisa Beech, ph (04) 4961765 (w); fax (04) 4962519 (w); home phone (04)
5646637; e-mail: lisa@caritas.org.nz
Monday 11 - Palmerston North. Te Whare Akonga, Open Learning Centre.
Second Floor, Westside Chambers, 181-185 The Square, along from Rangitikei
Street. 7.30 p.m Contact: Dion Martin, ph (06) 3569658 (w); fax (06)
3591333 (w); e-mail: dmartin@nduunion.org.nz
Wednesday 13 - Auckland. Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn. 7
p.m. Contact: Luke Coxon; ph (09) 8276059; mobile 021 2487005; e-mail:
Thursday 14 - Whangarei. Pat Irving Lounge, St Johns Church Centre, 149
Kamo Road, Kensington. 7 p.m. Contact: Tim Howard, ph (09) 4346633 (h);
(09) 4307464 (w); e-mail: the-farm@ihug.co.nz
Friday 15 - Auckland, end of tour.
PSNA Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa Box 2450, Christchurch,
New Zealand cafca@chch.planet.org.nz www.converge.org.nz/psna
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