GABnet in United States
GABRIELA has a sister network in the United States, GABRIELA Network (GABNet). GABnet is a US-Philippine women’s solidarity mass organization. GABnet conducted a nationwide vigil on Friday, May 20th, 2005 in six US cities—Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle. The vigil was the first nationally coordinated action in the US to protest the escalating political killings in the Philippines.
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