1000 days of disappearances of James Balao- 1000 protest postcards?1000 days of disappearances of James Balao- 1000 protest postcards?
To president Benigno Aquino III, to the former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of Philippines, mass media, trade unions and to the international democratic public, to the human rights organizations- please forward this email whereever and whenever you can to strengthen the international protest and solidarity movement for human rights in the Philippines, which people needs for their life in standing up to fight for a liberated world!
On Sunday 12 of June 2011 we counted – as it was decided in October 2008 in the partnership agreement between the Monday-Demonstration Movement Stuttgart and the family Balao and Cordillera People Alliance (CPA) – the days of disappearance of James Balao. It was the 1000 th day of the disappearance of James Balao.
The following organizations coordinated this international postcard- protest action:
German-Philippine Friends/GPF;Deutsch-Philippinische Freunde (DPF) e.V. (www.dp-freunde..de); Solidarität International (www.solidaritaet-international.de) , Germany and Chapter Stuttgart of Solidarity International; Montagdemonstration gegen Hartz 4,Mondaydemonstration against the unsocial law Hartz 4, Stuttgart (Email:MontagsdemoStuttgart@web.de); Balao Family, Human rights Organization/Menschenrechtsorganisation Cordillera „Save the disappeared!/ Rettet die Verschwundenen!“; Cordillera Peoples Alliance (www.cpaphils.org).
Amnesty International in Stuttgart supports this action as well with 200 postcards. More organizations or single persons are requested.
The postcards are now on their way to President Aquino, others will follow, as our protest goes on- as long as James Balao is free and we are informed about his enforced disappearances and impunity is stoped.
If you want to join the solidarity internationel postcard action, please download the postcard and sign, or ask for the postcards. We will send them at once to you.1000 postcards for peace and freedom!Surface James Balao now!
On behalf of the Monday-Demonstration against Hartz 4, Stuttgart
