{"id":206330,"date":"2015-07-28T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=206330"},"modified":"2015-07-28T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:06:44","slug":"usp4gg-join-global-protest-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/usp4gg-join-global-protest-against-china\/","title":{"rendered":"USP4GG join global protest against China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the U.S. Pinoys for Good Governance in various parts of the world staged a protest rally against China\u2019s \u201cinvasion, occupation, and militarization of West Philippine Sea\u201d last July 24.<\/p>\n

On Saipan, USP4GG members gathered on Beach Road across the Sunleader store, holding banners and flags against China\u2019s government and calling for a boycott of its products.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like what the Chinese government is doing trespassing in the Philippines. If we go there and do the same to them will they like it? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d Teddy Guiao said, adding that he will encourage Filipino workers on Saipan to boycott Chinese products as well.
\n

\"Members<\/a>
Members of the USP4GG on Saipan hold banners and flags in Garapan last Friday to protest what they described as China\u2019s \u201cinvasion, occupation, and militarization\u201d of the West Philippine Sea. (Frauleine S. Villanueva)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n\u201cWe want to remind the public of this cause that we have,\u201d Johnny Jacayan said.<\/p>\n

Motorists passing by honked in support of the group.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Celia Lamkin, chairperson of USP4GG CNMI and Guam, Marianas Chapter, July 24 marked the third anniversary of the creation of China\u2019s Sansha prefecture that supposedly administers the whole South China Sea, including West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n

This is the third year that USP4GG has been holding the protest rally.<\/p>\n

\u201cUSP4GG initiated this global protest, then some coalition in the Philippines also followed to do the global protest,\u201d Lamkin said.<\/p>\n

Lamkin, who was in Guam, said that their handful of members were also able to reach out to many motorists.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, we are getting bigger because of the newly formed movement and alliance called MARCHA or the Movement and Alliance to resist China\u2019s Aggression in the Philippines,\u201d Lamkin said. \u201cWe have reached out to more countries now than in the past years.\u201d<\/p>\n

In New York, USP4GG national chair Loida Nicolas Lewis led the protest rally in front of the Chinese Consulate General. In San Francisco, the protest rally was attended by the Filipino-American veterans of World War II and the U.S. Pinoys in San Francisco and the Bay Area. There were protests also in Los Angeles as well as in Canada, France, London, and Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Philippines, different towns and provinces now are more involved because in the past, the rally was only held in Makati,\u201d Lamkin said.<\/p>\n

She reported that more than 500 gathered to protest at the Chinese Consulate in Makati, Manila. Rallies were also held in various places such as Rizal, Cagayan de Oro, Olongapo City, and Tarlac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of the U.S. Pinoys for Good Governance in various parts of the world staged…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":206340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1180,63,3254,5445],"class_list":["post-206330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-celia-lamkin","tag-philippines","tag-south-china-sea","tag-west-philippine-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}