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The PURPLE
ROSE CAMPAIGN
Against Trafficking of Filipino Women and Children
THE GENERAL RESPONSE OF
THE ORGANIZED WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN THE US
To ignore
the problem because it is an "international"
issue and not a domestic one... until trafficking, particularly
the mail-order bride practice, started affecting white
Eastern European women.
To treat
the issue as a philosophical question, arguing whether
it is a matter of "choice" on the part of the
individual women or not, whether prostitution is "work"
or not, whether unionization is the answer or not.
To ignore
the function of the International Monetary Fund/World
Bank and the World Trade Organization in warping the economies
of countries like the Philippines, so that poverty becomes
endemic and an endless supply of poor and desperate women
are created, for the global sex trade and the international
labor market.
Outrage
becomes visible only when a battered mail-order bride
turns out to be a white woman from Russia or Eastern Europe;
deafening silence when the Seattle women and Estelita
Reeves were killed.
Individual
feminists and progressive women have joined and continue
to join GABRIELA Network in opposing this greatest crime
of the last 50 years.
as
of 13 February 2007
832 (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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