By Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners
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Give Political Prisoner status to all those who are incarcerated for their political views!

September 13 is a day of great significance, particularly for those who are condemned within the four walls of the prison for their political beliefs; for their strong convictions to dream and dare for a world that is free from all forms of exploitation, oppression, mistreatment and discrimination. It is a day to remember and reassure oneself about the need to uncompromisingly fight for a cause that is for the greater common good. Exactly eighty years ago, on the same day, Jatin Das the great revolutionary and freedom fighter braved the British imperialist rulers in a historic 63-day hunger strike at the Lahore Central Jail for prison rights including the demand to be recognized as a Political Prisoner.

End the corrupt and anti-people Arroyo regime!

By Chalmers Johnson
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KH04Ak01.html

However ambitious United States President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it. The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate will, sooner rather than later, condemn the United States to a devastating trio of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Union.

Assault, arbitrary arrest and unjust detention of students in Manila, Philippines

VICTIM/S: 1. Mark Gil Gamido, 17 y/o, ANAKBAYAN Culiat High School chapter 2. Likha Gaia Flores, 16y/o, ANAKBAYAN member 3. Jessa Dulay, League of Filipino Students member 4. Karl Villaseñor, Anakbayan 5 Yasmin Ongay, member Anakbayan University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman 6. Charmaine Guevarra, member Anakbayan, UP Diliman 7. Michael Non, member League of Filipino Students, UP Diliman 8. Lia Torres, member Anakbayan UP Diliman 9. Warren Guttierez, member League of Filipino Students, UP Diliman 10. Allan de Guzman, member League of Filipino Students, UP Diliman 11. Absolom Eligio, member League of Filipino Students, UP Diliman 12. Abriel Mansilungan, Kabataan Partylist member, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) 13. Kimberly Salas, member Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP), PUP 14. Giemma Canalis, member SCMP-PUP 15. Elvin Rillo, PUP student 16. Lea Jamayan, member League of Filipino Students, PUP 17. Andrew Alejo, Anakbayan PUP member 18. Ana Isabel Manalang, PUP student 19. Anton Perdigon, College Editors Guild of the Philippines member 20. Nida Grefaldo, College Editors Guild of the Philippines member