i was with reverend sadey in dak and since 2008 have been bringing folks to the philippines to raise awareness around the human rights situation and we got word someone in the south part of the philippines had been killed and he's a human rights worker from carapatan and survived through the marcos administration and the duterte administration is being killed tells us the intensity of what's happening in the philippines is increasing and a couple weeks ago in the same area there were 14 farmers killed in the style the drug and folks who are victims of the drug war have been killed where people just knock on the doors and come in and shoot people. sometimes separate them from their families and then shoot them. their loved ones are dead. killed without due process. obviously, journalists, senators, folks raising voices of dissent are being intentionally silenced. i'm grateful for the board of supervisors for being able to support this resolution given that voices are being silenced elsewhere. we are using our place in our privilege and being able to raise the voices of those who are n