We’ve been gunned down before: The danger Fil-Am activists face today
Jan 13, 2021, Angelica Lim In 1981, Filipino-American union leaders Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo were gunned down in Seattle by state agents of the Philippine government under then-president Ferdinand Marcos. Viernes and Domingo were staunch critics of the Marcos dictatorship and organized solidarity relations between longshoremen in Seattle, Washington and the trade union movement…