G A B R I E L A  N E T W O R K U S A A Philippine-US Women's Solidarity Mass Organization, est. 1989 
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GABRIELA Network is a Philippine-US women's solidarity mass organization. GABNet provides the means by which Filipinas in the US can empower themselves, functions as training ground for women's leadership, and articulates the women's point of view. GABNet effects change through organizing, educating, fundraising, networking, and advocacy.
THE PURPLE ROSE CAMPAIGN
Against Trafficking of Filipino Women and Children

THE COMPONENTS OF THE PURPLE ROSE CAMPAIGN

  • The Pledge Card. Each individual in agreement with GABRIELA Network's position on the sex trade signs a pledge card, committing himself/herself to opposing the traffic of women and children. this pledge is actively expressed by speaking out against trafficking, wearing the purple rose pin and never patronizing the sex trade.


  • The Purple Rose. The icon of the purple rose was selected because this flower was artificially created and exoticized, for no other purpose than to satisfy desire. It is no different from other roses and yet remains apart, because it does not exist in nature and was not a product of evolution. So are the women in the sex trade: artificially created and exoticized and willed to be apart and different to satisfy desire and to be sold for profit. Pins are $5. Order your Purple Rose pin.


  • The Committee of One-Hundred. Each country takes up the Purple Rose Campaign creates a Committee of One Hundred respected men and women, who work to make sure that the issue of the traffic of women, particularly Filipinas, remain in the public eye.


  • Raising Funds for GABRIELA Philippines. GABRIELA is the largest and only multi-sectoral women's alliance in the archipelago. It works for constantly improved working and living conditions, equal opportunities and equal participation in society for women, gender equality and the independence and protection of the country from globalization and imperialism. It has over 200 member organizations and has operated since 1984. Donate to GABRIELA Philippines.




1. Why Campaign Against Trafficking of Filipino Women and Children

2. Trafficking in the United States

3. Response of the Organized Women's Movement in the US

4. GABNet's Position

5. The Components of the Purple Rose Campaign

6. How to Join the Purple Rose Campaign



as of 31 May 2007 863
(83 women) activists, community organizers, church leaders, journalists... killed in the Philippines under de facto president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (since 2001)

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