For Whom: We Rise Together, International Human Rights Day

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Wed, 12/10/2014 - 9:00am to 9:30am
Joseph Gonzalez, of Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines on violations of rights
Joseph Gonzalez, organizer, and Angelica Lim, media representative with the Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, (PCHRP), talk about “For Whom: We Rise Together, International Human Rights Day” today (December 10th) at 6:30pm in the Native American Student and Community Center at Portland State University.

The cultural event aims to reach a broad audience from Portland and to build bridges and solidarity across communities in an effort to raise awareness about human rights violations nationally and globally.
Performers at the event include, but are not limited to human rights advocates from PCHRP, PSU Kaibigan, Brown Girl Pride, All-African People's Revolutionary Party, Portland Central American Solidarity Committee, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights, Black Student Union, and the Portland Human Rights Commission.

“International Human Rights day is a day of solidarity and remembrance of people all over the world who are repressed by human rights violations - those who are marginalized, oppressed, systematically silenced, killed, disappeared, imprisoned, or who have lost family members due to state violence,” Kenneth Crebillo, PCHRP Cultural Officer, stated. “This is also a day in which we honor and remember the ways people all over the world are resisting these systems of repression through struggles of liberation,” Crebillo added.

As an organization, PCHRP highlights the role of the U.S. intervention and militarization in the Philippines and the increased human rights violations committed on the Filipino people in the Philippines. Notably, the recent case of the death of Jennifer Laude, a transgender Filipina woman who was allegedly murdered by U.S. Marine Joseph Pemberton on October 11, 2014, brings to light the ways in which U.S. military occupation in the Philippines endangers the lives of Filipino women, children, and LGBTQ people. This historic trend of treating the Philippine Islands and its people as a place for “rest and recreation” activities correlates to the uptick in prostitution and abuse in and around bases.

http://www.portlandchrp.com/
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