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Join us for our open house tomorrow to celebrate our 1-year anniversary! Performances, food, and community at the Filipino Youth Coalition at Welch Park, San Jose, CA.
RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/events/357224571000563/
Website link: http://anakbayansv.com/2012/05/01/anakbayan-silicon-valley-open-house/
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Labor Day 2012, Manila, Philippines. Mayo Uno
An estimated 20,000 Filipinos trooped to the streets of Manila on Labor Day to demand a nationwide wage hike and to protest against government inaction on massive unemployment and poverty.
Source: artivista
Displacement, eviction and demolition continues in the Philippines. →
Over a week ago, SM decided to tear into an urban poor community so that they could build another site. Demolitions are continuing in the Philippines, they displace thousands with no where to go. When I went to the Philippines and stayed with the Urban Poor area of Tondo, a building was being evicted and the tenants were stating that they had no where to go, this was the only home they knew. When the pockets of the 1% are valued more that the rights and welfare of the people, something isn’t right. 7,000 miles away but this issue hits this land too. Continue the fight , continue the struggle, long live international solidarity.
-Kalayaan
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A celebration of organizing in the SF Bay Area in the National Democratic movement of the Philippines. Here’s to the past 15 years and many more to come. Proud to be part of this movement. Isulong ang pakikibaka!
This work, it don’t stop.
I SEE YOU, ATE.
This is what power of the people looks like. A movement continues to grow.
Makibaka huwag matakot!
Source: kulturalguerilla
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Anakbayan-USA, a national Filipino youth organization will be having its founding assembly in Chicago on May 18, 2012.
We are reaching a historical stage in the Filipino-American youth movement. A national movement that clearly sees the role of the Filipino youth here in the US as agents of change in our communities and as an integral part to the struggle for genuine liberation and democracy back home in the Philippines.
A decade after the founding of the first Anakbayan chapter in Seattle in 2002, we have spread to the major cities in the US, educating, organizing and mobilizing the Filipino youth to defiantly declare: MAKIBAKA! HUWAG MATAKOT! (join the struggle! don’t be afraid!) against the escalating state repression and economic crisis.
Youth and students leaders from different part of the US will be converging in chicago to participate in this historic founding. See you all there!:)
LUMALAKAS! LUMALAWAK! LUMABALABAN! ANAKBAYAN!
I can’t wait to be part of this historical event! Mabuhay ang kabataan at mga mag-aaral Pilipino! Mabuhay Anakbayan!
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I especially want to help younger Filipinos to think more critically so they will be better prepared to meet similar challenges than my generation was. In the farmworkers movement, for example, the Filipinos have been hurt simply because they did not clearly understand the issues.
Source: yellllow
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Join us tonight at 7pm in front of the Federal Building in SF as we call and demand for an end to US militarization in the Philippines and Asia-Pacific region. US Troops Out of the Philippines, the Asia-Pacific, and Everywhere!
On April 16, 2012, at the start of Balikatan joint US-Philippine military exercises, Bayan USA in Northern California and ILPS member organizations will mobilize in San Francisco, California as part of the international call for US troops out of the Philippines, the Asia-Pacific, and everywhere.
Join us on April 16 at 7pm in front of the US Federal Building located on 7th and Mission Streets in a vigil and street theater action as we expose and oppose the effects of US militarization in the Philippines.
US OUT OF THE PHILIPPINES!
US OUT OF ASIA!
JUNK THE US-RP MUTUAL DEFENSE TREATY!
JUNK THE US-RP VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT!
UPHOLD PHILIPPINE NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY!
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!For more information, please visit:
bayanusa.org
ilps.info
If you didnt know. US troops are back on philippine soil.
Source: kulturalguerilla
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FACT # 1: US supplying the Philippines with Killer Drones
In early February, a US-sponsored drone airstrike reportedly killed 15 members of the Abu Sayyaf, (a CIA-trained and backed extremist group) in the Southern Philippines. This recent attack counters the claims of the Philippine president, Noy Noy Aquino that it will not allow drone airstrikes and US forces to participate in any combat operations. The US has increased their supply of unmanned killer drones to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as part of their counter-insurgency operations against terrorism-linked rebel groups. The reality is that unarmed civilians are the largest group of casualties in counter-insurgency operations in the Philippines. With the blatant strategy of lumping combatants and civilians into one group or targets, more than 1,100 civilians have been extra-judicially killed in the last 10 years. How many more lives will be targeted for death thanks to US drones?
These drones are weapons of mass destruction and its use by the AFP will inevitably lead to casualties of innocent civilians.
Source: artivista
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This breaks my heart that PTSD takes more lives than the actual war. The things these men and women go through …
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Kalayaan. Tatted on my left arm.
“…Para sa kalayaan” written lyrics from a song. True meaning of a better future. Something worth fighting.
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