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Remembering how it all started: Acquired Immunity Disease Syndrome (AIDS) Walk Los Angeles
By Yolanda G. Mationg (Editor’s Note: AIDS Walk LA culminated on October 23 with more than $82 million raised since 1985) A little more than three decades ago, the very first AIDS Walk Los Angeles took place in 1985. Organizers of that initial Walk were in great hopes to raise approximately $100,000. Thankfully, with more […]
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Why the November elections is important to Filipino Americans, say leaders
By Carol Ojeda Kimbrough Exclusive to TheFILAMLA.com With only 58 days left before the November elections, the Pilipino Worker Center (PWC)hosted a forum on Sept. 10, 2016 in Los Angeles to discuss the impact of this election on the Filipino American community and to encourage voter participation. Over 50 people attended the event and many […]
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What motivate 500 Fil Am bikers to gather for ‘Bikerdahan 2016′
By Peter Lacson “There is no problem big enough a tankful of gas and a sunny day can’t solve”. – Steve McQueen Los Angeles — The 8th Annual Bikerdahan is set for September 9 to 11, 2016 at Lake Don Pedro in La Grange, California. This year’s 3-day outdoor Fil-Am biker assembly will be hosted […]
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Centennial celebration of the life of novelist artist NVM Gonzalez
Los Angeles – Colleagues and friends will assemble May 21, 2016 Saturday at the Echo Park Branch Library from 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. to remember Filipino writer Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez (NVM for short) on the centenary of his birth. NVM was born in Romblon, Philippines on September 8, 1916 and he passed away […]
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Of May day, elections and patriotism: a Fil Am perspective
By Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier of The FILAMLA May Day, 1971, near DuPont Circle, Washington, DC. (I hadn’t gone to Woodstock in 1969. I was not a Hippie, though I did go to the Washington Mall to celebrate the first official Earth Day. A week or two later I returned to the Mall, joining thousands of […]
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‘FASO Goes Pop’ breathes life to Fil-Am musicians
By Cecile Ochoa Glendale, CA– It never fails to excite concert audiences to see a maestro conductor, all in the elegance of a black tuxedo or a formal, surveying his or her grand ensemble before the grand opening number. This time it was a thrill to see a Filipino American musician confidently command his compatriots, […]
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Political power of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders highlights key study
A Special Report for TheFILAMLA Asian Americans and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) are becoming citizens in greater numbers. They are registering to vote and going to polls in increasing numbers in the West, according to Stewart Kwoh, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Los Angeles (Advancing Justice – LA). In […]
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Jennifer’s diary: Martial Law through a child’s eyes
First-Person Essay By Jennifer Suzara -Cheng It all started with hush tones and repressed messages among my household members, furtive glances down the street; even the blaring radio has stopped, I could feel that something was wrong. The silence was shattered by loud knocks on the front door, and then soldiers started walking into our […]
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Lifestyle: Fil-Am defense lawyer of a ‘superstar’ counts her way to success
By Claire Navarro Espina (Editor’s Note: Five years ago Claire Navarro Espina, owner of the Tarzana-based law firm Edelberg and Espina Law, represented Philippines’ superstar Nora Aunor in a much publicized criminal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles for alleged possession of a controlled substance found in her luggage at the Los Angeles Airport. The judge […]