Please support LFS’ BalikSamBayanan Summer Exposure Trip to the Philippines! Funds raised will go to funding the trip and the various communities and organizations we visit! If you cannot attend the show but would still like to donate funds, please email LFS-SFSU @ lfs.sfsu@gmail.com
Not convinced yet? Let this year’s hosts change your mind!
Need a night to relax and have fun?!
Come out and Support the….
Veterans Equity Center (VEC) Fundraiser at Poleng Lounge
Tuesday, June 30th
6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
1751 Fulton St. San Francisco CA
18+ Event
$5 All night!
Dress Code: Comfortable and accents of brown
The Veterans Equity Center is a resource that is VITAL to our Filipino community. Not only does it assist the Filipino Veterans that fought in WWII side by side with the American soldiers, but is also a place that allows our generation to outreach and help fight with our veterans who STILL have not gotten the recognition they deserve after 60+ years of fighting with the US government.
Now SF is going through budget cuts and the VEC is going to be hit hard, with 1/3 of their funding being taken away.. That is $67,000 that will be taken away from all the services and resources that the VEC provides for our Manongs and Manangs.
* All the proceeds will go to the Veterans Equity Center.
For more information please contact:
Chelly at chellylim26@yahoo.com
**Please forward widely**
DAY OF ACTION AGAINST THE VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT
10 years of the VFA = 10 years of military occupation, abductions, and rape
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
PROTEST and Meeting with the Philippine Consulate General
3:30pm
@ the Philippine Consulate [**note location change**]
447 Sutter Street, San Francisco
Teach-In on the VFA
6pm
@ SOMCAN
1070 Howard Street (c/s: 7th Street)
San Francisco, CA
Both events featuring special guest speaker Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan and representatives of BAYAN-USA, GABRIELA USA and NAFCON-Norcal
In the wake of the abduction of Filipino American human rights advocate and health worker Melissa Roxas and her companions Juanito Carabeo and John Edward Handoc, please join BAYAN-USA and GABRIELA USA as we condemn the US-Philippines Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and demand justice for victims of abduction and all human rights violations with an action and educational forum on the 10th anniversary of the VFA’s ratification.
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!!!
Hello everyone,
In celebrating International Worker’s Day and as a buildup activity for the upcoming May 1 mobilization. We’re inviting you, your family, friends, co-workers and members to hear testimonies/
Please let me know if any of your community members can attend by responding to this email or calling the Filipino Community Center at 415-333.6267.
Food and childcare will be provided FREE!- Translation into Spanish, Chinese ad Tagalog
Co-sponsored by: SFILEN, MUA, ALC and FCC/NAFCON
Please support our friends at the Liwanag Kultural Center in Daly City, CA!
please forward…
Kasanayan: Community Arts Workshops by Kalayaan School for Equity presents…
BACK TO BASICS: A Kommunity Hip Hop Workshop
Kalayaan School for Equity greatly values the historical role of Hip Hop music within community activism and involvement. In the spirit of this, we bring to you “Back to Basics” – A Kommunity Hip Hop Workshop. This workshop will focus on three steps:
1) analysis of a Hip Hop song about our community
2) intro/basics to creating rap music
3) creation of our own music that addresses the needs of our own communities.
Future sessions will build on basics covered in this session.
Upcoming workshop: Thursday, May 14: Baybayin and Barong Workshop
For Immediate Release
April 21, 2009
Contact: Marisa Mariano, Chair, Babae-GABRIELA USA, 415-333-6267, info@babaesf.org
San Francisco Filipino Women Rise Up Through Art
San Francisco, CA—As the weekend of International Worker’s Day, or Mayo Uno, approaches, the women of Babae-GABRIELA USA, League of Filipino Students, and Diwata Young Women’s Group prepare to not only celebrate the contributions of the working class worldwide, but to also celebrate the experiences and contributions of one of San Francisco’s distinct immigrant working populations, Filipino women. On Sunday, May 3, 2009, Babae, LFS, and Diwata hosts the 7th Annual Filipina Women’s Showcase, Diwang Pinay.
Diwang Pinay (Spirit of the Filipina) is an annual performance and silent art auction by Filipina/Filipina- American performers, writers, and artists. “With a 40,000 Filipino population in San Francisco, and more than half of whom are women, it is only appropriate to give light and praise to the different ways Pinays are living, resisting, and surviving today in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond,” states Marisa Mariano, chairperson of Babae.
