Gene Viernes
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title:
Gene Viernes
text:
Gene Allen Viernes was a Seattle-based Filipino American labor activist best known for his efforts to reform Local 37, the Seattle chapter of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and for having been murdered in 1981, in retaliation for organizing against Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos. Viernes was born in Wapato, Washington, in 1952 to a family of ten children. His father was a Filipino immigrant, and his mother was white. Viernes grew up on a
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Murdered Filipino American labor activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Viernes
date created:
2018-03-22T04:21:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T00:35:57Z
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