Episode 178: Anti-terror in the Philippines

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4.5 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In 2019, human rights activist and land defender Brandon Lee was shot four times outside his home in Lagawe, Lfuagao by the Armed Forces of the Philippines after being targeted for assassination by the Duterte administration. We speak to Brandon along with Rhonda Ramiro, chairperson of Bayan USA, about the assassination attempt, the ongoing abuses of the Duterte administration, and the United States' continued support. Bayan USA: www.bayanusa.org Philippine Human Rights Act: www.humanrightsph.org Fundraiser for Brandon: gofundme.com/f/justice-4-brandon-lee-campaign Human Rights Defenders Fund: ichrpus.square.site/hr-defenders-fund Investigate PH: www.investigate.ph

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0:00.0	So a little bit of a different episode today.
0:03.2	Yes.
0:04.1	No jockey cold of fin.
0:06.3	No, it would be, I feel like wildly inappropriate.
0:09.5	It's not thanks.
0:10.7	First, do you want to give our listeners a little background
0:12.5	in what we're talking about today?
0:14.0	So we're really honored to have on Brandon Lee
0:17.1	and Ron Romero.
0:19.2	Some of you might know Brandon Lee's name from,
0:23.0	it was a pretty big story a couple of years ago.
0:25.2	In fact, almost exactly a couple of years ago,
0:27.5	August 6th of 2019, Brandon was shot by unknown assailants
0:33.5	in the Philippines where he was working
0:36.8	with the peasant movement there.
0:40.1	And so just to give a little context that,
0:42.9	I know Brandon and Rhonda from outside the show.
0:48.6	And it was a pretty big deal at the time.
0:51.4	We talk about in the episode and everything like that.
0:54.2	But I think just in the context of this show,
0:58.2	Brandon was to put it totally unadorned,
1:01.6	the first American citizen targeted for assassination
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