The Importation of The US Prison Regime into the Phillipines
"Dylan Rodriguez Published a piece in the 'Left Curve' entitled:-
The signifance of March 15th 2005- on the Bagong Prison Massacre,
It makes difficult reading but in the Context of the London Independent
reports on Human rights abuses under the Arroyo regime, it becomes
crucial to understanding neo-colonialism and the torture of indigenous
community through the mass imobilisation of community through
the US prison system.
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Article at http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/363264.html
The same issues are arising in Oaxaca and the Ulises Ruis suppression of the
APPO and the indigenous communities in Mexico.
The link to the UN Report on the dissapearance of hundreds since the accession of Arroyo:-
http://www.news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article229...2.ece
The Rodriguez report in Left Curve asserts:-
'The US prison regime as the pre-eminent global matrix for large scale human immobilisation
and punishment. First Bagong Diwa entailed a co-ordinated and public slaughter of imprisoned
human beings by a domestic police force under the open sanction of a National Government'