It's About Time.




Marie Claire did a photo story on the women warriors of the New People's Army in the Philippinesn in their February 2008 issue.









Although the United States classifies the N.P.A. as "terrrorists" because of their Communist beliefs, as they do other freedom fighters all across the world, Mindanao is the only region in the Philippines that has never been colonized and exploited.


In Luzon and all across the Philippines, girls as young as eight years old are drawn into sex trafficking as a means to support their family and uplift the dilapidated economy of the Philippines. And since the current regime of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is Bush-sympathetic and marked as one of the highest human-rights violators since the beginning of her term, it serves many young women no other choice but to join the rebels in the fight to keep the sovereignty of their homeland.

Kudos to Andrew Marshall for pitching and reporting on this very real situation in the Phils. And even more Kudos to MC for bringing this issue into the halfwitted and superficial world of women's periodicals. Go ahead and pick that up.