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Babata: Percival Cunanan’s soap story
By Cristina DC Pastor Percival Cunanan and his wife Myrna epitomize the industrious immigrant couple. On top of their day jobs – Percy in IT and Myrna previously a manager in a bakeshop — they come home to Long Island to work some more. They make soap. As in bath soap. No rest for this […]
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‘Sulong’ summit sounds call to build a U.S. Filipino youth movement
Youth and students across the Tri-State gathered in Jersey City’s City Council Chambers July 29 for the first-ever Sulong! Filipino Youth Leadership Summit. Participants ranged from young children to high school and college students to professionals. They came from schools all over the East Coast such as Binghamton University, New Jersey City University, and Hunter […]
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A bill in Congress paved the way for my citizenship (Part 2)
By Metty Vargas Pellicer When America got involved in the Cuban Revolution against Spain, it got involved in the Philippines who was also waging a similar war of independence. Fighting a common enemy, the Philippine Revolution joined forces with America. It facilitated the surrender of Manila and the rest of the Philippines to end the […]
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Filipina doctor Metty Pellicer fearlessly finds herself in America (Part 1)
By Metty Vargas Pellicer In high school I was an interna at the Colegio de Santa Isabel. It was heretic for a colegiala, especially an interna, to study at the University of the Philippines. I thought, had my mother gone crazy? Unlike my mother, I did not have the audacity to see myself as a […]
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Moon River Dreamers turn gold, UP College of Medicine Class ‘67 celebrates
By Metty Vargas-Pellicer Fifty years since we left the college, a lifetime ago, but it seemed it was only yesterday. Fifty-four classmates made it to the Desmond Hotel in Albany on July 11-16 for the University of the Philippines Medical Alumni Society in America’s 32nd Annual Grand Convention. The UPMASA is a 501 (c) (3) […]
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Brain cancer warrior’s journey for life one marathon at a time
By Cristina DC Pastor A brain cancer survivor will be among the tens of thousands expected to run in the New York City Marathon on November 5. By his participation, James Auste, 40, makes history as one of few exceptional brain cancer warriors who have run major marathons in successive years. Part of his “campaign […]
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Young Filipina American blisters at Duterte: ‘It seems the greatest evil is you’
By Megan Faye Villarin “Huwag kayo mag-alala. Sasamahan ko kayo. If you go down, I go down. But for this martial law, and the consequences of martial law, and the ramifications of martial law, I and I alone would be responsible. Trabaho lang kayo. Ako na bahala. Ako na magpakulong sa inyo. Pag naka-rape ka […]
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New Jersey activists condemn Maute attacks, Duterte’s martial law response
“We condemn the attacks on the people of Marawi. We also condemn President Duterte’s declaration of martial law in Mindanao.” With this statement, Ren Clacer, chairperson of GABRIELA New Jersey, added her voice to the May 26 community vigil in solidarity with the people of Marawi. Clacer and about 30 other left-leaning activists gathered at […]
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American students perform Philippine folk dance, demonstrate martial arts in embassy visit
Leckie Elementary School is one of schools participating in the Embassy Adoption Program (EAP) introducing Washington D.C.- area students to foreign cultures and exposing them to international perspectives. Through EAP, the Philippines was chosen by the 6th grade students of Leckie – where many students come from military families — as the country to explore. […]