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Prepaid card provider dedicates a whole month to the Filipino community
Nobel, a leading online retailer of prepaid calling cards, has declared Filipino Month between May 24th and June 24th, 2013. In an attempt to thank all the Filipinos who have chosen Nobelcom as their international calling provider, the company has launched a one-month campaign right before the celebration of Manila Day, on June 24th. “The […]
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How Mama reinvented herself in America (Part 2)
By Randy Gener Eventually times got harder. It became more difficult to find work in the Philippines. Cleo had no choice but to disappear for longer periods of time. One reason she felt compelled to come to America was that in the late 1970s, she had conducted a long search for her U.S. father via […]
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A song for my mother (Part 1)
By Randy Gener It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Sitting in my studio, my mom, Cleo, asked me to hold out my palm. Suddenly interested in my lifeline, she wanted to tell me something good about my future. “You will have a long life,” Mama said, “but you have to be careful about money. […]
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‘I don’t want to feel unsafe again, don’t want to go back into the closet’ (Part 2)
By Kevin L. Nadal, Ph.D. On Thursday, May 16th, I attended a protest, in front of Madison Square Garden, right before a Knicks game. With the theme of “Queers Take Back the Night, ”over a hundred LGBTQ people and allies stood silently with signs as Knicks fans entered the arena. Some passers-by respectfully walked by, […]
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Anti-gay hate crimes on the rise: a call to the community (Part 1)
Kevin L. Nadal, Ph.D. I first moved to New York when I was 24 years old and I was accepted into a doctoral program in psychology at Columbia University. Some college friends from my undergraduate university in Southern California were already living in New York and invited me to move in with them in a […]
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Asian communities irked over mayoral candidates’ snub
Christine Quinn was a no-show. So were Bill Thompson and John Catsimatidis. Sal Albanese, Bill de Blasio, and Erick Salgado were at the forum, and so was John Liu, but he came 30 minutes late. Welcome to the Mayoral Candidates Forum organized by a coalition of about 50 Asian American organizations where the empty seats […]
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The needle in the calling card haystack is not that hard to find
Every once in a while having too many choices means no choice at all. Take international calling, for instance: hundreds of companies with thousands of products all lined up waiting to be purchased. On the street, in shops or online, technology has advanced so much so fast that you sometimes miss the old corded landline […]
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Manglapus, Gillego and the struggles from exile of a N.Y.-born anti-Marcos movement
Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator By Jose V. Fuentecilla University of Illinois Press 2013 By Cristina DC Pastor It is a book that triggers memories – some good and some not so bracing. That is how the book “Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles helped Topple a Dictator” […]
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The Reyna Elena: The Santacruzan tradition is a ‘spectacular’ way to unite a community
By Megan Villarin My name is Megan Villarin and I am a member of St. Raphael Holy Angel’s Filipino Community in Hamilton, New Jersey. Here at our parish, we had our second annual Santacruzan on May 5th. I am this year’s Reyna Elena and am also a member of the Filipino choir at St. Raphael. […]