"Three leaders of the Gabriela Network, a ... women’s solidarity organization,

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Alert from Women's Media Center...

Just got this heads up:

Aug 14, 2007

"Three leaders of the Gabriela Network, a Philippines-United States women’s solidarity organization, were placed on a Philippines Department of Justice “watch list” and threatened that they would not be allowed to return to their homes in the United States. Novelist and activist Ninotchka Rosca, whose reports on human rights violations under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration have often appeared on the Women’s Media Center website, is among the three. The women were part of a Human Rights Lawyers Delegation to the Philippines that reported last year on assassinations of organizers belonging to the Gabriela Women’s Party and the political persecution of Representative Liza Largoza-Maza, among other Filipino legislators.

The Women's Media Center was founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, who serve on the Board of Directors with Cristina Azocar, Jodie Evans, Gloria Feldt, Carol Jenkins, Pat Mitchell, Jessica Neuwirth, and Helen Zia. The WMC places female voices into the media, offers media training, and publishes original reports and commentaries as well as links to women columnists and bloggers, news organizations and journalism sources on its website WMD.....

http://www.atlargely.com/womens_issues/index.html