<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">chd mancom</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chdmancom@yahoo.com">chdmancom@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><br>
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<br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div><br><div><div><div><span style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:16px">Dear friends at the People's Health Movement:</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span>We
write again to seek your support to free the 43 Health Workers, collectively known as
the 'Morong 43'.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"> </span></span><span style="line-height:18px">Please find below a public statement drafted by the friends and
supporters of the Morong 43 health workers intended to be published as a paid
advertisement in a Philippine newspaper of general circulation (Philippine
Daily Inquirer) by November 19, 2010.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br>
</span><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">We
are soliciting your assent and conformity to place your name (and
designation/organization) to this statement. We are hoping to gather as much as
500-700 names all over the world from prominent personalities,
parliamentarians, religious, academicians, lawyers and judges, human rights
advocates, and health professionals.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br>
</span><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">As
you know, the Morong 43 have been languishing for 9 months in jail on Nov. 6.
Despite the overwhelming clamor for their immediate release and the dropping of
the false charges against them and despite the fact that the Justice Secretary
has already made a presumptively favorable recommendation to the President, no
clear movement or action has been forthcoming. We surmise that there are strong
obstacles being put in the way.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt">
<span style="line-height:18px">To indicate support, send us the name, position, and organization
of people to <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:chdmancom@gmail.com" target="_blank">chdmancom@gmail.com</a> by <b>NOV.
12 at the latest</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br>
</span><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">We
need raise the pressure to the Philippine government even higher.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"><br>
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18px">For more details and news about the Morong 43, you can visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://freethehealthworkers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://freethehealthworkers.blogspot.com/</a></span></p>
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</span><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Thank
you for your continued support and solidarity!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"><br></span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Best regards,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"><br>
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Kat Berza</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt">
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<span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Text of the paid
advertisement to come out in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on November 19, 2010</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">Another day in prison for the "Morong 43"
is another day that justice is denied.</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large"></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">President Benigno Aquino III should act now and
release the Morong 43.</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large"></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">Nine months ago in February, the 43 health workers
including 26 women – two of whom have already given birth while in prison –
were illegally arrested, searched, detained and tortured. Their rights are
still being violated and their families tormented.</span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:large"></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:large">The Department of Justice has submitted its
recommendations regarding the case of the 43 health workers. The President
himself has commented on the defect of the search warrant and that evidence
against the Morong 43 are the “fruit of the poisonous tree.” Various local and
international organizations have called for the health workers’
release. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:large">When Malacanang granted amnesty to rebel soldiers,
many asked why the Morong 43 remained in prison. </span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:large"></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:large">We call on the Aquino
government to withdraw the charges against the Morong 43 and see to their
immediate and unconditional release!</span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:large"></span></span></p>
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