our tax dollars at work again

SAN FRANCISCO, CA-- On November 1, 2005, six US Marines brutally gang-raped a 22 year-old Filipina woman at the former Subic Naval Base in Olongapo, Philippines. The US government transferred these Marines from the Philippines evading due process under Philippine law.

On the evening of December 8, 2005, members of Women for Genuine Security, Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity
(FACES), and Gabriela Network lay in symbolic protest beside the Dewey Statue demonstrating the victimization of women by current US foreign policy. The Dewey Statue commemorates Admiral Dewey's success in "liberating" the Filipinos during the Spanish American War, which set the stage for US entry into the Philippines in the 1800s.