BAYAN-USA Statement: Obama, NDAA

News Statement January 2, 2012 Reference: Bernadette Ellorin, Chairperson, BAYAN USA, email: chair@bayanusa.org NDAA WILL NOT QUELL THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF DISSENT AS GLOBAL CRISIS ENSUES– BAYAN USA Filipino-Americans across the US, under the banner of BAYAN USA, and their supporters condemn the last minute moves by President Barack Obama to railroad the signing of the National [...]

ABSD X OSD

FROM MIND TO MASSES by Ivan Penetrante All poems are broken poems unless they are kiss or a raised fist For Something, Someone, A cause So the slogan better be worth something so that poems can be worth something, But don’t worry I hear you and I love what you say I love those words [...]

The People’s SONA

Members of AnakBayan-San Diego joined the People’s SONA (State of the Nation Address) in Los Angeles, CA. Solidarity Statement: Good evening and warm militant greetings, Filipino brothers and sisters, distinguished allies and beautiful friends! My name is Eugene Gambol, mass campaigns officer for Anakbayan San Diego, a youth organization fighting for national democracy in the [...]

Fil-Am Youth Condemn 2011 Balikatan Exercises, Call to Junk the VFA

April 5, 2011 General Statement Fil-Am Youth Condemn 2011 Balikatan Exercises, Call to Junk the VFA We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the Balikatan joint US-RP military exercises currently being held in the Philippines. This shameless act, committed by the US and Philippine governments, only deepens the relentless suffering that the Filipino and American [...]

BAYAN USA Celebrates 100 Years of Women in the People’s Struggle

News Statement March 8, 2011 Reference: Bernadette Ellorin, Chairperson, BAYAN USA, email: chair@bayanusa.org, url: www.bayanusa.org BAYAN USA Celebrates 100 Years of Women in the People’s Struggle On this centennial anniversary of International Women’s Day, BAYAN USA, an alliance of 14 Filipino organizations in the United States, salutes all the women on the frontlines of national [...]

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Filipino graduate student from U.C. San Diego faces deportation: Sign a petition to grant him asylum NOW!

Mark Farrales fled to the United States with his family to seek political asylum after the life of Mark’s father, a prominent lawyer who spoke out against government corruption, was threatened by two gunshots to the head in 1990. Mark Farrales’ father, Jaime, had just announced a bid for congress during that time. Mark was [...]

Credit Goes to People’s Struggle, Not a President’s Benevolence, for Withdrawal of Charges Against Morong 43

News Statement December 10, 2010 Reference: Yoko Liriano, Coordinator, NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, email: nychrp@gmail.com Credit Goes to People’s Struggle, Not a President’s Benevolence, for Withdrawal of Charges Against Morong 43 The New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) welcomes the recent order from Philippine President Benigno “P-Noy” [...]

VIDEOs: No To Education Budget Cuts!

Filipina/o American Youth & Students Stand in Solidarity with the December 1 Nationwide Student Protest in the Philippines Against Education Budget Cuts Reference: Ryan Leano, Secretary General, SanDiwa National Alliance of Fil-Am Youth Email: sandiwa.national@gmail.com November 28, 2010 In the past days the Philippines has seen numerous class walkouts and campus strikes as thousands of [...]

FILIPINO AMERICAN YOUTH CELEBRATE

FILIPINO AMERICAN YOUTH CELEBRATE BONIFACIO DAY AND THE NECESSITY FOR YOUTH ORGANZING November 30, 2010 Contact: Ivan Penetrante Chairperson, Anakbayan San Diego anakbayansd@gmail.com SAN DIEGO – On this occasion of the twelfth anniversary of our mother chapter in the Philipppines, on the birthday of Andres Bonifacio, and while our kababayan in the Philippines wage an [...]