[ASA_PEWS] Fwd: PROF. WALDEN BELLO UNJUSTLY ARRESTED BY PHILIPPINE DICTATORSHIP

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From: Joseph Gerson, Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security <
jgerson80 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 1:44 PM
Subject: PROF. WALDEN BELLO UNJUSTLY ARRESTED BY PHILIPPINE DICTATORSHIP
To: <barbara.larcom at gmail.com>

Join Me in Calling for His Release
PROF. WALDEN BELLO UNJUSTLY ARRESTED BY PHILIPPINE DICTATORSHIP

Join Me in Calling for His Release
Dear friends,

Many of you will have learned from Walden Bello in several of our CPDCS
webinars. I was shocked and deeply concerned by news of his totally unjust
arrest today in the Philippines.

Walden is an outstanding scholar and public intellectual who recently had
the audacity to run against the daughter of former President/Dictator
Duterte in the Philippines. She has now had him jailed. As a prolific
scholar of extraordinary vision and integrity, a democracy advocate who was
forced into exile by the previous Marcos dictatorship, a leader of the
Philippines peace and independence movement, and the founder of the Focus
on Global South NGO, Walden’s contribution have been enormous.

We need him back in the world and free from the abuses of the new
Marcos/Duterte dictatorship.

You can send an email to the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. at
washington.pe at dfa.gov.ph
You can also try to get through by phone at 202-769-8049

Please join me in demanding Walden’s release,

Joseph Gerson

P.S. Walden’s arrest has come just as U.S. Secretary of State Blinken has
embraced the new Philippine dictator. My next step will be contacting
members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation urging them to
intervene on Walden’s behalf.
FOLLOWING IS MY APPEAL TO THE PHILIPPINE AMBASSADOR AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF
WALDEN’S ARREST.

  Dear Ambassador Jose Manuel del Gallego Romualdez

I am writing out of shock and deep concern at the news of the arrest by the
Quezon City police of Professor Walden Bello, the chairman of Laban ng
Masa. I have known and worked with Professor Bello for more than 40 years
and have been consistently impressed by his integrity and commitments to
justice and peace.

His arrest is obviously a case of a state-sponsored persecution and
repression of the right to free expression. That a highly respected and
world-renowned scholar-intellectual and activist like Dr. Bello has been
victimized by this highhanded police operation speaks volumes about the
lack of democracy and freedom in the Philippines. The arrest of this
Vice-Presidential candidate appears to be an act of retribution by
Vice-President Duterte against her opponent in the recent election. It also
appears to be designed to serve a chilling warning to democracy and human
rights advocates at the time when the son of former dictator Marcos assumes
power in the Philippines.

Simply put, Dr. Bello’s arrest is an outrage. We and others will do all
that we can to secure his release and to help ensure that human rights and
democracy are preserved in the Philippines which is allied to the United
States.

With deep concern,

Joseph Gerson (PhD), President,
Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security
ANNOUNCEMENT OF
WALDEN BELLO'S ARREST

Laban ng Masa (LnM) condemns in the strongest terms the filing of
cyber-libel charges and the subsequent arrest today of its Chairperson, Dr.
Walden Bello, by operatives of the Quezon City police. This is obviously a
case of a state-sponsored persecution and repression of the right to free
expression. That a highly respected and world-renowned scholar-intellectual
and activist like Dr. Bello has been victimized by this highhanded police
operation speaks volumes on the state of democracy and freedom in the
Philippines. It also serves as a warning to democracy and human rights
advocates on what would befall them while standing up for the right to
express one’s views and criticize wrongdoings by the rich and powerful.

The cyber-libel case against Dr. Bello is clearly a proxy harassment with
no less than Vice President Sara Duterte as the real protagonist. She uses
a former aide as a cover for her own vindictive behavior. Just as Ms.
Duterte and her running mate and now President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. had
repeatedly cowardly refused to participate in debates with other
candidates, so she is now running true to form by putting up a dummy to
file the charge against Dr. Bello.

Laban ng Masa is a socialist coalition dedicated to the real transformation
of Philippine society from an elite-centered and billionaire-controlled one
to a truly democratic and worker-led system. We call on all freedom-loving
and democratic people in the country and internationally to denounce Dr.
Bello’s unjust arrest and to demand that all charges against him be dropped.

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