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Coca-Cola's Pearl of the Orient (1955) A quality that never changes bottle after bottle, day after month after year. Isn't that delicious? Mmmm...you just know it is! Made in the Philippines, by the people of the Philippines, for the people of the Philippines. 04 June 2007 Carmel 10:43 AM | 26 comment(s) A GOOD PROVIDER IS ONE WHO LEAVES  On June 25, 1980 (a date he would remember), a good-natured Filipino pool-maintenance man gathered his wife and five children for an upsetting ride to the Manila airport...read more 22 April 2007 Carmel 10:19 PM | 7 comment(s) UPCOMING EVENTS & LECTURES DECONSTRUCTING SOUTHEAST ASIAN BOUNDARIES: Awareness, Coalition Building, and Networking among SE Asian Students, Organizations, and Faculty Saturday, May 12, 2007 noon-3pm, UW Ethnic Cultural Center, Black Room PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The Imperial Logics and Transnational Formations of US Public Health Prof. Warwick Anderson Monday, May 14, 2007 7pm Communications 120 POSITIVELY NO FILIPINOS ALLOWED: A CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN STUDIES Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. (Mt. Holyoke College) Friday, May 25, 2007 3pm Ethnic Cultural Center, Black Room NEW MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Sheila Coronel Thursday, May 31, 2007 3:30pm Communication 120 17 April 2007 Carmel 11:45 AM | 0 comment(s) LEARNING REALITY  Armed with grenades and a sub-machinegun, the owner of a children daycare centre in the Philippines took his customers hostage, prompting a 10-hour armed stand-off as he demanded better education for his young victims. read more... i'm still trying to collect mine but does anyone have any thoughts about this?28 March 2007 dodds 1:55 PM | 25 comment(s) SPEAK OUT: EPISODE ON PCNs As students at the University of Washington, living in the Northwest, and in Seattle, what did you guys think of this issue? We have our own version of the PCN that's hosted by the Filipino American Student Association (FASA) what are the similarities and difference with this issue?...difference besides the $30,000 production cost :) Online Videos by Veoh.com 13 March 2007 Carmel 1:35 AM | 19 comment(s) NWFASA CONFERENCE 2007  Land is Life, Life is Struggle, We Struggle as One. April 6-8, 2007 Western Washington University Cost: $65 includes transportation, food, housing, and workshops. Register by emailing: FASA@u.washington.edu You know you gotta go, PADD is doing one of the workshops! Click here for more information about the conference. 11 March 2007 Carmel 1:01 PM | 3 comment(s) COMMUNITY FORUM: OFWs & GLOBAL HEALTH Date: Friday, March 9th, 5:30-7:30pm Where: Filipino Community Center 5740 Martin Luther King Jr. Way South Seattle, WA 98118 PADD will be holding a 5 member speaker panel, who's members consist of community leaders, UW faculty, and students. This event will be focused on a critical discussion to raise awareness and voice the concerns of the community. Event Overview: As a result of U.S. attempts to solve the increased demand for health-care professionals by importing foreign labor, the health-care systems in third world countries such as the Philippines are suffering. Exporting health labor equates to the loss of countless professionals left to care for the country's sick and dying. Furthermore, although the U.S. seems to have all to gain from foreign labor, the harsh reality that it is cheaper to import labor than sending a student through professional school remains for minorities in the U.S. pursuing a career in health-care. This quarter PADD will be analyzing the effects of overseas Filipino nurses as a national and international issue. Essentially, this issue represents a microcosm of the larger effect health related labor exportation plays on the people of a third world country as well as the inconspicuous effects this type of mass migration plays on global Diaspora (i.e. Filipino Americans). In exploring the various issues surrounding this project, PADD hopes to facilitate a critical discourse enabling students, faculty, and the community toward exploring reasonable avenues for change. 26 February 2007 Carmel 1:07 AM | 3 comment(s) FILM SCREENING Dancing the Shrimp Friday, February 23rd, at 6:30pm Where: UW-Ethnic Cultural Center API Room 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE Seattle, WA 98105 Isabel Kenny, one of the directors of the film will also be here for the screening. Dancing the Shrimp is an hour long documentary by Isabel and Jim Kenny. It is a story about fifth and sixth generation Filipino Americans recreating their unique and little-known history in Louisiana as they reminisce about growing up in New Orleans and in a once-thriving shrimping community known as Manila Village. Dancing the Shrimp was funded by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Louisiana Division of the Arts and WLPB - the PBS affiliate in Baton Rouge, explores why Louisiana became one of the earliest Asian settlements in the United States and how well the descendants of these early settlers and more recent Filipino immigrants have acculturated themselves in the greater Louisiana society. Isabel Enriquez Kenny is a Filipino-American scholar and artist based in California. She is the author of Making Documentaries in the Philippines (Anvil, 2005), which won the National Book Award for Film. She currently teaches online courses in Visual Literacy at the Adenauer Centre for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University. She has also taught media, visual commuication, television and film production and screening courses at Boston and Emerson Colleges in Massachusetts, Loyola University of New Orleans, Montclair State University in New Jersey, the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University. 20 February 2007 Carmel 1:15 AM | 0 comment(s) FROM THE TRENCHES What up errbody from Sinait, Ilocos Sur. So, admittedly, most of my days here have been pretty chill. I get up, sip some coffee on the beach and then kinda space out until lunch time. Today's been pretty action packed, and its the kind of action that I think Carmel would allow on her website so here's the cliffs notes... So I've been going to early morning mass everday here-- and surprisingly, it was in church that I found out about the upcoming mayoral elections in March. I say surprisingly because the last time I was here, three years ago the church seemed less interested in the local politics-- let alone partial to dedicating its Sunday homily to politicizing the people in the pews. Last sunday, Father preached that the people had the power to change "corrupt and oppressive systems of government." And had a whole spiel about not falling for grandstanding and truly seeking out the candidate that would have the "common good" in his or her interests-- basic needs like clean air, safe streets, quality education. My cousin said this is a new development around these parts, mainly because of the new parish priest-- a young guy from Tagudin. This morning I got to talk to him about some of the new programs he is trying to implement-- at the center of them all being a "paradign shift" (as he called it) from the old "devotional" faith to one more focused on "stewardship" and social justice. The priest talked about opposition and being harrassed-- it was an interesting look at faith-based efforts for social change in this area. After mass we drove to the local health care center where I toured a hospital and emergency room that is almost totally reliant on Medical missions and overseas donations in maintaining is current quality of care. The member of administration that we spoke to talked about funding being cut in half since 1992. It was pretty amazing, and I wish you guys were here to ask better questions. As for the errand that Carmel assigned me going in here.. Searching for the pensionado Sebastian Abella around here is kinda like searching for Matthew Smith in Ohio or Jose Gonzales in East LA-- except worse because there's no phone book... and a bunch of public records were burned (presumably by the Japanese) during WWII. Its likely that he never came back to Sinait-- and it seems like there's an Abella living on every other block around here. So my cousin and I tried to brainstorm ways of searching out any kind of information. 1) go around town with a loudspeaker asking for anyone with a Lolo named Sebastien Abella to come forward 2) post bills in each of the 44 barangays of Sinait 3) announce in church that we are offering a cash reward to any surviving relative and then make them offer some kind of proof 4) go back to the beach and just say i did one of the above. guess which one i chose. hehehe. As for visiting the cave where Dona Ines Cannoyan is said to buried-- my cousin tells me its likely I'll be kidnapped by NPA if I venture that far away from the bayan. So maybe some other time in regards to that. Sorry about the long post about nothing in particular. Wish yall were here. Paz. 11 February 2007 orlando 10:08 PM | 1 comment(s) |
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