Jessica Sales

{{Short description|Filipina college professor and community organizer}}

{{Philippine name|Mendez|Sales}}

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| name = Jessica Sales

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| caption = Detail of the Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, showing names from the 2001 batch of Bantayog Honorees, including that of Jessica Sales

| birth_name = Jessica Mendez Sales

| birth_date = {{birth date|1951|10|15}}

| birth_place = Manila, Philippines

| disappeared_date = {{Disappeared date and age |1977|07|31 |1951|10|15}}

| disappeared_place = Makati, Philippines

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| occupation = University professor

| alma_mater = Centro Escolar University (BS)

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| awards = Honored at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani wall of remembrance

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bantayog.org/sales-jessica/|title=Sales, Jessica|last=|first=|date=October 24, 2016|website=Bantayog ng mga Bayani|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 2, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1035004/tish-jessica-hermon-and-other-missing-martial-law-activists|title=Tish, Jessica, Hermon and other missing martial law activists {{!}} Inquirer News|last=|first=|date=September 22, 2018|website=Inquirer|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 2, 2019}} She was a founder of the university chapter of the Student Christian Movement of the Philippines at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.manilatoday.net/resonance-the-southern-tagalog-10/|title=Resonance: The Southern Tagalog 10|last=Ilagan|first=Bonifacio|date=December 6, 2016|website=Manila Today|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bantayog.org/southern-tagalog-10/|title=The story of the Southern Tagalog 10|last=Ilagan|first=Bonifacio|date=October 11, 2017|website=Bantayog ng mga Bayani|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 2, 2019}}

Sales' name is inscribed on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Wall of Remembrance honoring martyrs and heroes of martial law.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bantayog.org/martyrs-heroes/|title=Martyrs & Heroes|website=Bantayog ng mga Bayani|language=en-US|access-date=January 2, 2019|archive-date=May 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508014156/http://www.bantayog.org/martyrs-heroes/|url-status=dead}}