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Demonstration this Sunday at the Embassy of the Philippines @ 4pm
Posted by: DCMJ Adam E ()
Date: February 21, 2019 12:27PM

This Sunday we are linking up with StopTheDrugWar.org and protesting outside of the Embassy of the Philippines from 4-5pm. Read below and join us! We are still looking for a few more street theater performers to help out! Please email Mr. Borden if you can help!

February 24 is an important day. Two years ago, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines unjustly imprisoned Senator Leila de Lima, who had dared to challenge Duterte for his drug war killings, which now may number as many as 28,000.

Today, not only is de Lima still behind bars, Duterte's trying to jail another senator, and a newspaper publisher. He's promising to make the drug war even more deadly during the last three years of his term. And Duterte has withdrawn the Philippines from the International Criminal Court treaty. But that won't stop him from one day facing justice for the crimes he's already committed.

This February 24, we will call again for Senator de Lima's release. And we announce the launching of "Stand with Human Rights and Democracy: Global Campaign for the Philippines," a worldwide partnership to address this human rights crisis.

Join us if you can in Washington, DC, 4:00-5:00pm on Sunday, February 24, for our protest at the Embassy of the Philippines, 1600 Massachusetts Ave. NW. When we protested there a year ago, the video went viral in the Philippines, sending the message that the world is watching. Please RSVP on our Event page, to let your friends know and to encourage others to join us.

Click here to read about that action and watch the video. Along with the oversized Duterte and de Lima masks used in our street theater last year, we've added two new figures, Rappler publisher Maria Ressa (a TIME Person of the Year) and Senator Antonio Trillanes. It's going to be a good show, and we need your help.

February 24 is important. The loss of life in Duterte's drug war is bad enough, but the brazenness with which he's doing this is having international ramifications. The killings have spread to some countries already, and it's affecting the climate in more. Other human rights violations are on the rise in the Philippines too. Meanwhile, the Kremlin disinformation machine is supporting and campaigning for Duterte, in the Philippines and internationally.

If a dictatorship gets established in the Philippines, there's no telling how far the killings could go. That's why we're asking you to stand with human rights and democracy, and with our allies in the Philippines working for justice and a better drug policy.

Sincerely,
David Borden, Executive Director
StoptheDrugWar.org
P.O. Box 9853 / Washington, DC 20016
"U.S. and U.N. Drug Policy Reform"

P.S. Please read these two Amnesty International statements about de Lima and Ressa.

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