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‘There’s no sense keeping her in jail. Courage on, Frenchie!’
The rain has finally stopped in our part of the world, but the earth shook across the Pacific last week after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka coast on July 30 on what experts called the “megathrust fault.”
The tsunami warnings that followed reached as far as the Philippines, with at least 22 provinces getting alerts that day. Geologist Mario Aurelio wrote in this piece that the powerful tremor was bound to happen, citing studies that show how it was building up along the trench. Here are things to know about tsunamis.
Beyond this, what jolted us is the upsetting news that journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who’s been in jail for more than five years now based on what appears to be fabricated charges, is facing another case: double murder over her alleged involvement in an ambush that killed two soldiers. Note that Frenchie is the only Filipino journalist who’s behind bars.
There’s no sense keeping her in jail. Courage on, Frenchie!
Speaking of courage, Ruben Nepales features lawyer Toni Jaramilla, an employment and civil rights lawyer who represented women workers in the failed American Apparel company that’s the subject of a Netflix documentary, Trainwreck: The Cult of the American Apparel.
“I reviewed the allegations. I was so appalled. I learned of the other women. I accepted the challenge,” said Jaramilla, who was born in the Philippines, moved with her family to the US when she was three, and finished college at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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