Right now, a crisis in the Philippines is being perpetuated by U.S. imperialism and its puppet Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo....the principal oppression being waged against the majority of women workers and peasants right now is class oppression, and Macapagal-Arroyo is the symbol of the bourgeois comprador class. She comes from one of the handful of families that carry out the dictates of U.S. imperialism....Another issue that has galvanized the Filipino people is the gang rape in November 2005 of a Filipina woman by U.S. Marines. She was raped and knocked unconscious.