Letter of Solidarity to Task Force Subic Rape
September 30, 2006
To: Task Force Subic Rape members,
I am writing this letter to extend my solidarity to the Task Force Subic Rape in their support of Nicole. I object to the violence against women sanctioned directly and indirectly by the state. The rape of Nicole by U.S. servicemen is part of larger attacks on Filipinos. Why are Filipino women targeted in violent ways, such as rape, and are not legitimized in the cries for justice? Out of the 3,000 plus cases of rape when the military bases were still present in the Subic area, why has it been only now that this issue makes it to court? I stand in solidarity with Task Force Subic Rape to critically look at the biasness present in the Philippine court system caused by the U.S. sponsored Visiting Forces Agreement.
Here in America, I have seen continuities of injustice on Filipino-American communities. Anti-immigration laws, such as HR 6061 “The Secure Fence Act” do not acknowledge the causes that force people to cross borders. These anti-immigration bills, are barring people from their basic human rights to survive and not questioning the root problems that displace people in their own homelands. Newly immigrant Filipinos in America are then placed in vulnerable positions where they feel unprotected by the state because of their undocumented status, and subjected to acts of violence without justice. Despite Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s recent visit to Hawaii praising the history of Filipino sugar cane workers and military servicemen, she does not acknowledge or protect them from the abuses they experience just to support their families in the Philippines.
These acts of injustice occurring the Philippines and its corresponding impacts in America reveals that there is an unequal relationship that exploits and subordinates the dignity of Philippine sovereignty and people toward the benefit of U.S. imperialist policies. I stand in solidarity with Task Force Subic Rape to scrap the Visiting Force Agreement because it limits the Philippine court system from protecting the interests of their own people. I support Task Force Subic Rape in their alliance with Nicole because this event marks a time in history where the normalization of violence against Filipino people is being challenged, and the complacency of the Philippine state to the U.S. is being illuminated as problematic.
Sincerely,
Ellen-Rae Cachola
San Francisco, CA
To: Task Force Subic Rape members,
I am writing this letter to extend my solidarity to the Task Force Subic Rape in their support of Nicole. I object to the violence against women sanctioned directly and indirectly by the state. The rape of Nicole by U.S. servicemen is part of larger attacks on Filipinos. Why are Filipino women targeted in violent ways, such as rape, and are not legitimized in the cries for justice? Out of the 3,000 plus cases of rape when the military bases were still present in the Subic area, why has it been only now that this issue makes it to court? I stand in solidarity with Task Force Subic Rape to critically look at the biasness present in the Philippine court system caused by the U.S. sponsored Visiting Forces Agreement.
Here in America, I have seen continuities of injustice on Filipino-American communities. Anti-immigration laws, such as HR 6061 “The Secure Fence Act” do not acknowledge the causes that force people to cross borders. These anti-immigration bills, are barring people from their basic human rights to survive and not questioning the root problems that displace people in their own homelands. Newly immigrant Filipinos in America are then placed in vulnerable positions where they feel unprotected by the state because of their undocumented status, and subjected to acts of violence without justice. Despite Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s recent visit to Hawaii praising the history of Filipino sugar cane workers and military servicemen, she does not acknowledge or protect them from the abuses they experience just to support their families in the Philippines.
These acts of injustice occurring the Philippines and its corresponding impacts in America reveals that there is an unequal relationship that exploits and subordinates the dignity of Philippine sovereignty and people toward the benefit of U.S. imperialist policies. I stand in solidarity with Task Force Subic Rape to scrap the Visiting Force Agreement because it limits the Philippine court system from protecting the interests of their own people. I support Task Force Subic Rape in their alliance with Nicole because this event marks a time in history where the normalization of violence against Filipino people is being challenged, and the complacency of the Philippine state to the U.S. is being illuminated as problematic.
Sincerely,
Ellen-Rae Cachola
San Francisco, CA
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