by Michael Withey | Jul 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Our friends and supporters at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York were helpful in shaping our civil lawsuit against the Marcos Regime in the early days of our justice efforts in 1981. The CCR, headed then by Michael Ratner and now by Vince Warren,...
by Michael Withey | Jul 30, 2015 | Uncategorized |
What follows is a personal account of Mike Fox, one of the attorneys who represented Gene Viernes, Silme Domingo and Silme’s brother Nemesio Domingo in their fight against race discrimination in the cannery industry in Alaska. Mike had dedicated his life and career to the representation of farm workers, cannery workers, and the downtrodden and neglected. On the bench he was widely acclaimed for his fairness, and sense of justice. It is my personal honor to present Mike’s heartfelt reflections on our fallen heroes, Gene Viernes and SIlme Domingo:
by Michael Withey | Jul 16, 2015 | Uncategorized |
On September 11, 1973, the duly elected Socialist government of President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a military coup engineered by Col. Augusto Pinochet with the backing of the Nixon/Kissinger administration in Washington. President Allende died in his...
by Michael Withey | Jul 14, 2015 | Uncategorized |
On July 14th we sent a formal request to the FBI to produce documents related to its use of Levane Malvison Forsythe as an informant for the Marcos-backed murders of anti-Marcos union activists Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes and subsequent criminal trials. Mr....