February 2012
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iVOW to fight VAW
Kappa Psi Epsilon and SiGAw (Sisters of GABRIELA Awaken!) have come together to present the iVOW vs. VAW Week Campaign! It is a national campaign created by GABRIELA-USA to fight violence against women, to build community power towards the end of violence, and to build a broad network of advocates in the U.S. and beyond.
1. Coming out to our Film Screening:
When: Thursday, February 16
Time:...
January 2012
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Watchanakbayanla:
YOUTH AND STUDENT MOVEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES
This video was filmed during an exposure trip of July 2011 in the Philippines and featured at the Anakbayan Seattle report back multi-media show “Halong” in November 2011.
An exposure trip is a program designed to expose people to the harsh realities and true living conditions experienced by the people of the Philippines through...
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Filipina Women in the U.S. Call for Relief...
Hello friends!
As many of you have likely heard, Typhoon Sendong brought an onslaught of destruction to our Kababayan in the Philippines at the end of December. Family and friends of SiGAw members lost homes and loved ones from the typhoon. SiGAw, along with allied BAYAN-USA organizations in Southern California, immediately took action following Typhoon Sendong and have already raised over...
December 2011
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November 2011
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November 25th, is the International Day for the... →
GABRIELA-USA, an alliance of organizations representing Filipino women across the U.S. commemorate Nov 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) with a slideshow of their members and supporters exposing the role of the 1% in perpetrating violence against women throughout the world. Read the full statement here: GABRIELA-USA women highlight that economic...
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Pinay Stories Friday 11/18/11
In commemoration of the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (IDEVAW), on November 25th, this month’s Pinay Stories will be focused on issues of violence against women.
Pinay Stories is a safe space for honest self-reflection and dialogue about issues affecting us and our communities. We come together in dialogue to support each other and become powerful advocates for...
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October 2011
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Occupy International Day of Action update
Occupy LA SiGAw members joined the International Day of Action with the global occupy movement against corporate greed. Check out Arkibong Bayan for pictures of Filipinos from all across the world as we took a united stand for the 99%!
28th year commemoration of the National Women's...
On October 28, 1983, over 10,000 women surged to Mendiola to protest the oppression, repression, hardship, and corruption of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. Twenty eight years have passed since women have shown the power of collective action to take part in the overthrow of a dictatorship. But oppression, repression, and the struggles of the people still remain under the...
Pinay Stories Friday 10/28/11
Pinay Stories is a safe space for honest self-reflection and dialogue about issues affecting us and our communities. We come together in dialogue to support each other and become powerful advocates for economic, political, social, racial and gender justice. This discussion group is Pinay focused and is open to women and gender non-conforming persons. Come hungry & support the café...
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Melissa Roxas, Survivor of Abduction and Torture...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2011 Contact: Rhonda Ramiro or Kuusela Hilo Justice for Melissa Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org Melissa Roxas, Survivor of Abduction and Torture in the Philippines, Honored Nationally as a Filipina of Distinction SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The Filipina Women’s Network has selected Melissa Roxas as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina...
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SiGAw October Events!
Sisters of GABRIELA, Awaken! (SiGAw!) Open House
Sunday, October 16, 2011 3:00-4:30pm @ Salakot Sizzle & Grill 2122 Beverly Blvd, LA 90057
Come learn about SiGAw as we share our social justice and liberation work, from the streets and school campuses around LA, to the homeland of the Philippines. Meet other Pinays and members of SiGAw at a local restaurant in Historic Filipinotown...
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ILPS - US Statement in Support of “Occupy Wall...
Statement in Support of “Occupy Wall Street” Movement
ILPS - US International Coordinating Committee Members, October 13, 2011
IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL
The International League of Peoples Struggle, representing hundreds of organizations in 43 countries, stands with the young workers, students and unemployed occupying Wall Street and city centers around the United States. You are fighting a...
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Fil-Ams on OWS-- To Stand Against Economic...
Press Statement
October 12, 2011
Reference: Bernadette Ellorin, Chairperson, BAYAN-USA, email: chair@bayanusa.org
Fil-Ams on OWS— To Stand Against Economic Inequality Is Justified and Necessary
BAYAN-USA Statement on Occupy Wall Street
Filipino-Americans across the US, under the banner of BAYAN-USA, salute the historic Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in New York City and...
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Filipino Women Protest With Thousands In Occupy...
News Release October 8, 2011 References: Irma Salvatierra Bajar, Chairperson, Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment-NYC, email:fire.nyc@gmail.com
Raquel Redondiez, Chairperson, GABRIELA-USA, email: gabrielawomen@gmail.com
FILIPINO WOMEN PROTEST WITH THOUSANDS IN OCCUPY WALL ST. MARCH ALONGSIDE UNIONS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CAPITALISM AND THE PROTRACTED GLOBAL ECONOMIC...
September 2011
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CBCP confesses to GABRIELA: "There's nothing we...
NEWS RELEASE
23 September 2011
Reference: LANA LINABAN, Secretary General (0908 8653582) / Public Info Dept (371-2302)
CBCP makes a confession to GABRIELA: THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT THE CASE OF PRIEST WHO RAPED GIRL
After being made to wait for almost an hour at the gate of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’ (CBCP) office compound, “Leah,” rape victim of Butuan...
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Wikileaks Cables Reveal Contradictions and Lack of...
Online whistleblower Wikileaks released three classified cables earlier this month which included then-US ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney’s comments on the abduction and torture of Melissa Roxas from May 19-25, 2009 at the hands of the Philippine military. The cables largely confirm what the Justice for Melissa Campaign already suspected: that the US Embassy was more concerned...
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Aquino should decisively end human rights crisis,...
News Statement
September 21, 2011
Reference: Bernadette Ellorin, Chairperson, BAYAN USA, email: chair@bayanusa.org
AQUINO SHOULD DECISIVELY END HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS, VESTIGES OF MARTIAL LAW, IN THE PHILIPPINES— BAYAN USA
Sign the online petition to FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Sign the online pledge for JUSTICE FOR MELISSA ROXAS
Filipino-Americans, under the banner...
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“Traditionally, in American society, it is the members of oppressed, objectified...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via uprightcitizens)
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Bayan marks 20th anniversary of US bases rejection...
Bayan marks 20th anniversary of US bases rejection by Philippine Senate Anti-US bases activists and campaigners held a gathering today to mark the 20th anniversary of the Philippine Senate’s rejection of a new bases treaty with the United States. Twenty-years ago in September 16, amid intense public pressure and protests, 12 Philippine senators voted to reject a new treaty. Umbrella group Bagong...
August 2011
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Remembering the Disappeared: Torture Survivor...
MEDIA ADVISORY August 22, 2011 Contact: Kuusela Hilo Phone: (818) 395-9207 Email: info@justiceformelissa.org
Remembering the Disappeared: Survivor of Torture and Abduction in the Philippines Appeals to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture for Justice
What: Justice for Melissa Press Conference; Appeal to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Where: Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Boulevard...
July 2011
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Filipino American Women in the US Stand with...
Filipino American Women in the US Stand with Undocumented Journalist, Jose Vargas
Members of GABRIELA USA stand in solidarity with acclaimed journalist and Pulitzer Prize Winner Jose Vargas, who recently published an article in the New York Times about his life as an undocumented resident in the United States. His story represents one out of the million undocumented Filipinos in the U.S....
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ILPS COMMISSION 7: Cause of Women’s Liberation &...
Lina Solano of Ecuador is accused of “closing public roads” and “physically assaulting the police” during one of the public demonstrations she participated in against destructive mining. At one time, this woman activist was also charged by the army with attempting to “assault a military post.”
Solano is a founding member of the Women Defenders of the Pachamama, and a member of the...
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Heinous rape and molestation of 4 minors by a...
Heinous rape and molestation of 4 minors by a retired US Navy enraged GABRIELA-ST GABRIELA members from Laguna felt the point of fury with the heinous crime committed by Ret. US Navy Alexander Maurice Holt, 40 years old and is married to a native of Sta. Cruz, Laguna. The event of rape and sexual molestation done by Holt can’t only be as an ordinary crime, it is direct attack to the lowly...
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US Delegates Link Arms with Women From All Over...
Manila, Philippines—From July 5 to July 6, 10 delegates from GABRIELA USA organizations Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE) in New York, BABAE in San Francisco, Sisters of Gabriela Awaken (SiGAw) in Los Angeles and Pinay sa Seattle in Seattle, joined by Monica Moorehead, a representative from the Women’s Fightback Network, NYC joined the first general assembly of the...
June 2011
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GABRIELA USA celebrates pride month by continuing...
This June, in the midst of pride celebrations around the country, GABRIELA USA, a national alliance of progressive Filipino women’s organizations, is agitating, organizing, and mobilizing their communities in unwavering support for LGBTQGNC rights. Through a human rights and immigrant rights framework, GABRIELA USA sees LGBTQGNC issues as embedded in struggles worldwide for economic, political,...
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Melissa Roxas speaking at US Congressional...
Today, Melissa will speak at the Congressional Briefing in Washington D.C. Congressional Briefing on developing U.S. Responses to Countries that Torture: Survivor Witnesses from Four Continents.
Thursday, June 23, 2011, 3 PM - 5 PM (Eastern Time)/ 12 PM - 3 PM (Pacific Time)/3AM-6AM Jun 24 (PH Time)
Follow her campaign on Twitter http://twitter.com/justice4melissa or visit...
May 2011
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No justice as CHR & Aquino administration fails to...
No justice as Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights, Etta Rosales and Aquino administration fails to uphold the rights of Filipino-American torture survivor, Melissa Roxas
On February 14, 2011, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines released its resolution on the case of torture survivor Melissa Roxas, a Filipino-American activist who was abducted on May 19, 2009-exactly two years...
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Take Action Now: Demand Justice for Melissa Roxas
Take Action and Demand Justice for Melissa Roxas by sign the online community letter (click on the link or read on below for full text of the letter):
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFRjUXdXUHcxQWQ1ZUhldm1KVGFqQnc6MQ
3 May 2011
FIL-AM ACTIVIST ROXAS, HR LAWYERS FILE MANIFESTATION AT CHR; TAKE EXCEPTIONS AGAINST “MISLEADING” FINDINGS
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March 2011
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Filipino Organizations Stand Firm Against Racism...
BAYAN USA Southern California and its member organizations—Sisters of GABRIELA Awaken (SiGAw), Anakbayan Los Angeles, Anakbayan San Diego, and Habi Arts—stand in solidarity with students, staff, and community members struggling against pervasive racism and xenophobia on campus at UCLA. UCLA student Alexandra Wallace posted an appalling bigoted video entitled “Asians in the Library,” a...
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Mothers March and Modern Day Sheroes
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
MOTHERS MARCH
MARCH 12, 2011 · 11:00 am · 425 Shatto Place, LA 90020 March to MacArthur Park; rally; music; poetry; food; rides for those unable to march; translation
Join Youth Rappers:
GUERRILLA QUEENZ, OLMECA,
SKIM and SHOSHONA
Also CINDY SHEEHAN
& AZTEC DANCERS
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Filipino Women in the U.S. Stand in Solidarity and...
GABRIELA-USA’s Statement on the Centennial of International Women’s Day
On March 8, 2011, over ten thousand women in the Philippines took to the streets, in what are the largest International Women’s Day actions organized by GABRIELA, the world-renowned Filipino women’s alliance. The women demanded relief from the economic crisis in the form of price controls of basic goods,...
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Celebrating International Working Women’s Day and...
In honor of all the working women around the world, SiGAw welcomes you to celebrate International Working Women’s Day and Women’s History Month with us at several upcoming events:
Friday, March 4, 2011 7:00pm – 9:00pm Ka Bel Documentary: US Premiere. A remarkable story of how a son of peasants became a working-class hero. Crispin Beltran (also known as “Ka Bel”) was a defender of women’s...
February 2011
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SiGAw updates
SiGAw has been gearing up for the launching of our iVOW to fight VAW (Voices of Women to fight Violence Against Women) week. We are thrilled about our collaborations with our sisters from Kappa Psi Epsilon’s Alpha and Delta chapters and UCLA Samahang Pilipino’s Pinays, which has helped develop stronger Pinay leadership and a deeper desire for women’s liberation through the...
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Egyptian women show the woman's place is in the...
As the people of Egypt take to the streets demanding the ouster of President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak’s regime, the world also bear witness to the courage of Egyptian women, showing that the woman’s place is in the struggle. GABRIELA National Alliance of Women in the Philippines expresses our solidarity with the women and the people of Egypt, recognizing the justness of their struggle....
January 2011
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Top 10 Mass Movement Moments of 2010 →
BAYAN’s Nato Reyes lists his “Top 10 Mass Movement Moments of 2010” —from the urban poor resisting forced dislocation to the international fight to free the Morong 43.
I wonder what a U.S.-based version of this list would like…Any ideas?
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HRW: AFP Abuses Against Morong 43 Should Be Taken...
More than 10 months after the 43 health workers were illegally arrested—and after two of the women had given birth in jail—most of them have finally been released, following President Aquino’s order to withdraw charges against them.
Unfortunately, the ordeal isn’t over yet. While the freed health workers must yet tend to the physical and psychological wounds left by their extended...
December 2010
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Brave Enough to Be Ourselves
By Pi and Zee
We are born into this world
Free, so to speak
Free from self-consciousness
Not yet bound
By restrictions,
Expectations on who to love or
Predetermined definitions of who we are
When we, ourselves, are on the road to discovering
In search of that which might not be definable
Because one awakening leads to another
Tangling into the intricacies of you and me
Caught up in a...
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Luxury and Profits for a Few Comes at the High...
Day 13 of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
Major hotels boast luxurious, well-kept rooms with various amenities, but what the hotel industry hides is the back-breaking pace and oppressive working conditions that hotel workers toil under. During Day 13 of GABRIELA-USA’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, GABRIELA-USA organizations highlight women hotel housekeepers in...