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Ninotchka Rosca

Ninotchka Rosca is an author, journalist and founder of GABRIELA Network (AF3IRM) (www.gabnet.org), the preeminent Filipina-American women’s rights organization. She has written two novels, State of War and Twice Blessed; two short story collections, Bitter Country and Monsoon Country; and two non-fiction books, The Fall of Marcos and Jose Maria Sison: At Home in the World—Portrait of a Revolutionary. Her short stories have been included in several anthologies. Rosca is a board member of The Sisterhood Is Global Institute (www.sigi.org).

Recent Posts by Ninotchka Rosca

Super Bowl Sunday: What You Won’t See

February 5, 2010 – 11:06 am

By Ninotchka Rosca
February 5, 2010
On Super Bowl Sunday nearly a billion viewers will see the story of one woman during an anti-choice ad. Here, Filipina author and activist Ninotchka Rosca exposes the reality of all the rest.
Her eighth child, positive for Down syndrome; the doctor at the free maternity clinic delivers the verdict [...]

Bucking an Anti-Terror Law

August 20, 2007 – 4:57 pm

He announced in Tagalog:  “This is serious.  You are with the Taliban.” The roomful of people at the airport in Manila glanced at us askance.   I wished that the Taliban would discover the Philippines government had linked them to one Jewish feminist, one left-wing writer/advocate for women’s rights (me) and one national chairperson of a [...]

Human Rights Lawyers Expose Misuse of U.S. Aid to the Philippines

October 5, 2006 – 3:23 pm

“The presence of U.S. troops on Philippine soil has always been particularly devastating to women.” This is one of the baldly stated findings of the Women’s Human Rights Delegation to the Philippines, which released its final report September 21.
Lawyers Tina Monshipour Foster, Rachel Lederman, Vanessa Lucas and Merrilyn Onisko—representing the Center for Constitutional Rights, the [...]

Philippines Update—Murders and Impeachment Motions

July 11, 2006 – 3:25 pm

On July 4, as the country celebrated Philippine-American Friendship Day, some 100 women, mostly members of the urban poor women’s association SAMAKANA, trooped to the Batasan (Congress) in Quezon City to add their signatures to a fifth impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.  The complaint would be formally filed on July [...]

Further Update on Philippines

May 6, 2006 – 5:11 pm

A regional court in the Philippines threw out government charges of
rebellion against Congresswoman Liza Maza of the Gabriela Women’s Party
and her co-accused. Judge Jenny Lind Delorino refused to issue warrants
of arrests for the group of 48 legislators and leaders of mass
organizations, saying that the complaint–presented as an amendment to
charges against two men previously arrested–was, in [...]

Philippines Update

May 5, 2006 – 2:57 pm

Congresswoman Liza Maza and Tita Lubi, of the Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) have been formally charged with rebellion, along with 46 others.  Among the acts for which the 48 are being held responsible was the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing that nearly wiped out all the political opponents of then President Ferdinand E. Marcos.  Maza was [...]

The Invisibility of The Filipina

April 21, 2006 – 5:05 pm

 For forty-six days now, Congresswoman Liza Largoza Maza of the Gabriela Women’s  Party of the Philippines has lived in the tiny confines of her office at the Batasan (Congressional Building).  She is the only female among five congress people granted sanctuary by a unanimous resolution of the House of Representatives and the Senate when the [...]

Media Silence on Major Asia Story: Philippine Congresswoman Charged with Rebellion; Women’s Movement Declared Illegal

March 16, 2006 – 6:52 pm

Why the media blackout on a major story from the Philippines? Filipino papers are not permitted to cover it ?but whatever happened to free press in the west?
On the 20th anniversary of the 1986 People Power uprising that toppled the Marcos dictatorship, the current president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, issued Presidential Proclamation 1017, declaring a state [...]

Media Silence on Major Asia Story: Philippine Congresswoman Charged with Rebellion; Women’s Movement Declared Illegal

March 16, 2006 – 5:15 pm

Why the media blackout on a major story from the Philippines? Filipino papers are not permitted to cover it? Whatever happened to free press in the west?
 
On the 20th anniversary of the 1986 People Power uprising that toppled the Marcos dictatorship, the current president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, issued Presidential Proclamation 1017, declaring a state of [...]