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Download or read book Triumph Over Marcos written by Thomas Churchill and published by Open Hand Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silme and Gene were only twenty-nine at the time they were murdered in 1981. They had spent ten years reforming cannery workplaces, where bosses and mob-related union foremen were resistant to change. Both college educated activists, they angered many inside and outside the Filipino community because of their forceful, open fight for union reform and against the corruption taking place in the Philippines under the Marcos regime.