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Poet Bino Realuyo throws back UST award in protest of Mocha Uson’s alumni recognition
January 21, 2018 Very Rev. Fr. Bruno F. Cadore, O.P. MD, Chancellor University of Santo Tomas, and Officers and Members of UST Alumni Association To Whom It May Concern: My name is Bino A. Realuyo, a proud alumnus of the University of Santo Tomas and author of the novel, “The Umbrella Country” and the poetry […]
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13-year-old Riley Villazor carries cheeky placard at Women’s March
By Cristina Dc Pastor Riley Villazor, a 7th grade student at East Side Middle School on 91st Street, found herself engulfed by a sea of protesting women who marched on January 20 over issues such as violence against women, immigration, and wage gap. She was with her mother Rose Villazor, a law professor, and her […]
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Jesuit priest, HRW official to speak on Duterte’s anti-drug war on Jan 22
In the wake of the reloading of Tok-hang, the Philippine “anti-drug war” which has resulted thus far in some 20,000 killings, the Fil-Am Press Club of New York will hold a forum featuring activist priest-scholar Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, and Human Rights Watch Asia Division Deputy Director Phelim Kine. The Kapihan event will be on […]
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New York is a bittersweet posting for Vice Consul Tanya Faye Ramiro
By Cristina DC Pastor Vice Consul Tanya Faye Ramiro used to visit NYC when her mother was working in the city. Now that she is Vice Consul at the Philippine Consulate, her mother is no longer around. On December 5, 2014, Gloria Jean Ramiro – who worked as a private chef for an affluent family […]
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Duterte and PIDCI among Top 10 stories for 2017
By Cristina DC Pastor 2017 was the year people relied on The FilAm as a news source on Rodrigo Duterte and PIDCI, or the Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. Too much blood has spilled as a result of the Duterte Government’s war on drugs, and uncontrolled fraud and thievery has exposed PIDCI as an organization […]
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How an authoritarian Duterte will likely succeed where Marcos did not
By Rene Pastor A lot of people compare Rodrigo Duterte to Ferdinand Marcos. That may be a bit off because Duterte could well succeed where Marcos failed so spectacularly. The authoritarian idea or thesis is popular in Southeast Asia. If you have a government that runs roughshod over human rights and civil society, but delivers […]
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Ea Torrado choreographs loss, grief, and healing
Playing Sisa at the Lopez Museum in 2014. Inspired by the ‘loss of identity of mothers and the Motherland.’ By Cristina DC Pastor How many stages of grief are we allowed to have? Four? Seven? In Ea Marie Torrado’s 32 years, the grieving came in waves and stages: The father she knew nothing about, her […]
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New PHL ambassador arrives in D.C., writes of PHL-U.S. ties and friendship with Chuck Norris
After a long wait, the Philippines’s new ambassador to the U.S. was finally introduced to government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, and business community leaders at a reception held on December 7 at the Philippine Embassy’s Chancery Annex building. Jose Manuel del Gallego Romualdez — known by his nickname Babe – is a journalist, […]
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Majority of Asian Americans on East Coast disapprove of Trump performance
According to a nonpartisan exit poll of 2,538 Asian American voters in the 2017 elections, Asian Americans strongly supported Democratic candidates in four states — Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York — with 3 out of 5 voters disapproving of Donald Trump’s performance as president. The multilingual exit poll was conducted by the Asian […]