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This weekend, the Government of the Philippines will enact the so-called \u201cHuman Security Act of 2007.\u201d The legislation, which officially attempts to increase security using tough measures against domestic terrorism, will grant newer and broader authorities to state and police forces. Despite President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo\u2019s insistence that the Human Security Act will be implemented with full respect for civil liberties, human rights activists are very worried. Critics of the legislation point to its broad and vague definition of a terrorist crime. Under the act, eleven crimes are listed as terrorism so long as they attempt to create “a condition of widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace in order to coerce the government to give into an unlawful demand.” The definition fails to include crimes of state terrorism, which worries human rights activists as they see the law\u2019s implementation within a context of hundreds of extrajudicial murders and disappearances in the past six years. Finally, under the Human Security Act, a person punished for terrorism crimes will serve a mandated prison term of forty years without the possibility of parole. <\/p>\n There will be an action on Monday July 23rd at 5 pm in front of the Philippines Consulate in Los Angeles to protest the Human Security Act. The Consulate is located at 3600 Wilshire Blvd. For more information, visit www.bayanusa.org<\/a>, or www.myspace.com\/bayan_usa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program GUESTS: Crispin Beltran, Filipino Congressperson and labor leader; Kuusela Hilo, a member of Anakbayan – Los Angeles, and Deputy Secretary General of Bayan – USA; Pia Rivera, member of Anakbayan Seattle and Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue This weekend, the Government of the Philippines will enact the so-called \u201cHuman Security Act of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"HSA\"](\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20070703\/capt.mla10307030708.philippines_air_force_anniversary_mla103.jpg?x=380&y=266&sig=vgQFOgk.v7_Pm8BU2faQjA--\")
GUESTS: Crispin Beltran, Filipino Congressperson and labor leader; Kuusela Hilo, a member of Anakbayan – Los Angeles, and Deputy Secretary General of Bayan – USA; Pia Rivera, member of Anakbayan Seattle and Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue<\/em><\/p>\n