Alliance for Philippino concerns : Nelia Sanche / recorded by Pam Burton.

Speech given at the Ohio Coalition for Philippino Concerns forum. Sanche, a leader in GABRIELA (General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership and Actions), discusses conditions in her country. She provides a broad portrait of the social discontent created by the Aquino government’s unfulfilled promises. She examines the removal of protective trade barriers, the U.S. military bases, restrictions to women’s rights, and failure of their nuclear free zone movement. She concludes with an agenda of needed economic, political, and military reforms. Introduced by Helen Abadeano.