Jessica Mendez Sales (October 15, 1951 – disappeared July 31, 1977) was a college professor and community organizer in the Philippines who disappeared during martial law under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.[1][2] She was a founder of the university chapter of the Student Christian Movement of the Philippines at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.[1]
Sales was arrested by state agents, at the age of 26, along with nine other activists working with community organizations in the Southern Tagalog region in the Philippines: Cristina Catalla, Gerardo "Gerry" Faustino, Rizalina Ilagan, Ramon Jasul, Salvador Panganiban, Emmanuel Salvacruz, Virgilio Silva, Modesto "Bong" Sison, and Erwin de la Torre. The group came to be known as the Southern Tagalog 10.[1][3][4]
Sales' name is inscribed on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Wall of Remembrance honoring martyrs and heroes of martial law.[5]
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- ^ a b c "Sales, Jessica". Bantayog ng mga Bayani. October 24, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
- ^ "Tish, Jessica, Hermon and other missing martial law activists | Inquirer News". Inquirer. September 22, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
- ^ Ilagan, Bonifacio (December 6, 2016). "Resonance: The Southern Tagalog 10". Manila Today.
- ^ Ilagan, Bonifacio (October 11, 2017). "The story of the Southern Tagalog 10". Bantayog ng mga Bayani. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
- ^ "Martyrs & Heroes". Bantayog ng mga Bayani. Archived from the original on May 8, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2019.