Enough!

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The one-year grant that the state of California, through the California State Library, awarded Positively Filipino requires us to be constantly alert to the serious issue of Anti-Asian hate. Thus we have published original articles on various aspects of the Stop the Hate campaign, and we continue to monitor various publications so we can compile links to those stories with our regular Hate Watch collection.

Disseminating information on anti-Asian hate also means learning more about this sorry, sometimes tragic, sign of our times. We have followed up on Fil-Am victims of violence and assaults, some of them gruesome enough to make mainstream news, others just spoken about in whispers. Since documentation is important in addressing the gravity of the problem, PF has opened itself to posting reports on incidents that are brought to our attention. Such as our story this week by San Francisco community leader Mauro Tumbocon who was a victim of a random, unprovoked physical assault on New Year's Day.

We also came across this short film by Glenn Philip Martinez Aquino on the anti-Filipino riot in Exeter, California on October 24, 1929. This film, our Video of the Week, is instructive and cautionary. Filipino American history is replete with stories of hate directed against our elders who came to the US in unfriendly times.  And such negativity from certain quarters is not going away anytime soon.

However, we are not helpless victims here. Together with other Asian Americans, we can get the resistance going. Gathering information. Documenting incidents of assaults. Educating ourselves on the historical, social, psychological, mental and legal issues of anti-Asian hate. We are one in declaring in various ways, through a variety of voices and channels: ENOUGH!

Anti-Asian Hate Watch

For Asian Americans, January Brings Memories of Tragedy and Hope for Change
https://asamnews.com/2024/01/16/asian-americans-january-reflection-hate-crimes-violence/

With hate crimes on the rise, the FBI wants to hear from Utahns
https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2024/01/16/und-with-hate-crimes-on-the-rise-the-fbi-wants-to-hear-from-utahns/

Anti-Asian Hate in America: Exploring a Psychological Aspect of Human Thought, Behavior, and a Solution
https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/anti-asian-hate.pdf

Combat Hate Crimes toolkit in Tagalog
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.napaba.org/resource/resmgr/hate_crimes/toolkits_languages/v2hate_crimes_tagalog.pdf

Combat Hate Crimes toolkit in English and Ilocano
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.napaba.org/resource/resmgr/hate_crimes/toolkits_languages/v2hate_crimes_ilocano.pdf 

Anti-Asian Hate
https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/anti-asian-hate

How Asian Americans Fought Back Against Hate – and Won
https://nysba.org/how-asian-americans-fought-back-against-hate-and-won/

Funding provided by the State of California.

In The Know

The return of ancient Cotabato limestone urns to the PH, the return of dignity to Filipino heritage
https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-culture/return-ancient-cotabato-limestone-urns-dignity-filipino-heritage/?fbclid=IwAR1bNptBmuSj6ZkD-mISrN8cFg3mK3JmEwASoVOEa1JIZYjrMS8BUjwVyMc

The Manilamen and their Australian Connection
https://verafiles.org/articles/the-manilamen-and-their-australian-connection?fbclid=IwAR3G6FmjL6G3OFIvaYxFMr0NcyGRHAzUFgG4lVtRXZnSYLJz-5czLlNZKCw

Here's How Much Money Filipino Content Creators Make From YouTube Videos
https://www.esquiremag.ph/culture/arts-and-entertainment/filipino-content-creators-youtube-mone-sa00367-20220805-src-candy?utm_medium=Echobox-Esquire&utm_campaign=Echobox-Ownshare&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3iGztHDHuXWrYwq5lNkFJXFijuNQWDE_B7AxsWqV9RmrghIqMyneKW3uc#Echobox=1704425732

Someone Unearthed Old Films That Give a Rare Glimpse of Pre-War Manila
https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/films-prewar-manila-a00225-20210521?utm_medium=Echobox-Esquire&utm_campaign=Echobox-Ownshare&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3BmlHdXK6ygKtUc-KB6KSmk7sUjWGXdyRPdBxNaVKQLB-1gUHhcLXGXWc#Echobox=1704431992

This Filipino-Romanian NFL Player Is Introducing Fans to Sinigang and Adobong Pusit
https://www.esquiremag.ph/culture/food-and-drink/andrei-iosivas-nfl-player-filipino-food-a00203-20240108?utm_medium=Echobox-Esquire&utm_campaign=Echobox-Ownshare&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0DchlxYOMvg935eQv8MfCPANf4gLZ5xffvz00JI2M_-7t-myIawh2h-pY#Echobox=1704763144

Coconut Milk Chicken Adobo
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020494-coconut-milk-chicken-adobo?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0-6X9ELEzeBZ2OwHCZ2TyGR8GRsSJbOZ3uOIFgoEibR9aAH4lXf5rM_uk

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Wander and Wonder

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Today is the first day of summer in the Western hemisphere, and it's made more significant because 2023 is the first official post-pandemic year -- borders are open and travel restrictions have been lifted everywhere.

If you're still on the fence about joining the millions who have planned trips this year, know that there are different ways you can make that one journey you are considering meaningful.

You can do immersion travel, like social activist Pamela Tau Lee did when she visited Marawi in the aftermath of the 2017 war, a very moving experience that she will forever remember. 

There's also something to be said about returning to a city of beautiful memories, as PF Correspondent Criselda Yabes did when she revisited Barcelona to marvel once again of its bounties.

Whichever way you want to go, enjoy our forthcoming travel stories from our peripatetic contributing writers. 

In The Know

Teaching our national anthem
https://philstarlife.com/geeky/529969-teaching-national-anthem?fbclid=IwAR1vf2q6TMnWqnuLVRE7HNZEaAsbx6tpaMqxN0ZdN8_AqgyVfDn0dbkwa1M#

Agutaya archipelago doctor who cared for 13,000 people on her own
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64948453?at_link_origin=BBC_News&at_link_id=78283952-0791-11EE-81FD-20FA7E934D9D&at_format=link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_campaign_type=owned&at_ptr_name=facebook_page&at_medium=social&at_link_type=web_link&at_bbc_team=editorial&fbclid=IwAR33uQ31MPMI0YgUdaa5-09SMp6RYZoXTwU4RwOuOzvqAUbjhK-ZkZQXbfM

Filipinos in world chess meet: Hall of Famer Eugene Torre, US Chess Champion Wesley So
https://www.goodnewspilipinas.com/filipinos-in-world-chess-meet-hall-of-famer-eugene-torre-us-chess-champion-wesley-so/?fbclid=IwAR1nqHsjg6-XGJ49piOHlyNEoUhL6L7ZB8kOLWGgmKqJSpX58Qf2y1ZwhKM

The killings have not stopped
https://verafiles.org/articles/the-killings-have-not-stopped?fbclid=IwAR3j0n0rodwAJdnUPslaUUFgPev8K7jos2yjPC5yjOGwrmtmaVT5qXankbc

Warriors’ biggest hype man has a day job: Hype up everyone else
https://www.sfexaminer.com/sports/warriors/warriors-hype-man-franco-finn-carries-nba-role-into-day-job/article_04b1f18e-0705-11ee-9c61-3bc15b6df7d4.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_San_Francisco_Examiner&fbclid=IwAR1qvS9ARKGxsECTMZZknbH4dAUqOBqbq1AkYkc2gM8q3ssQHyUgp6m0cJA

From being a 'curious' foreigner to a naturalized Pinoy: A Canadian vlogger's journey to ‘Becoming Filipino’
https://philstarlife.com/celebrity/257250-kyle-jennermann-becoming-filipino-journey?page=2

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Listen to Mother Nature

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Before anything else, we join the Filipino nation in paying tribute to an exemplary public servant, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario who passed away Monday aboard a flight from Manila to San Francisco.

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Snow and tornadoes in California. Unrelenting rains and flooding in the south. Unseasonal typhoons and more frequent earthquakes in the Philippines. Drought, melting glaciers, warmer oceans, heat waves -- the list goes on. If there's ever any doubt that Mother Nature is sending an unmistakable message to humankind to shape up, banish that thought. This year's Earth Day (on Saturday, April 22) is both a reminder and a call to action.

Climate change, environmental degradation, global warming -- however it's called -- requires an all-hands-on-deck approach. And that means each one of us can do our part. Every little action helps. If volunteering for a seashore cleanup or planting saplings in denuded areas is not your thing, your throwing your soda cans and/or bottles in the recycle bin, or setting aside your food scraps for composting are just as consequential. 

While Earth Day is a proclaimed annual celebration, Saving the Earth is a commitment and a lifestyle. No public announcements necessary. 

Our lead story this week is about how one family parlayed its ecological way of life into certifiably sustainable housing developments. PF contributing writer Chiara Cox begins by telling us about how it is to grow up in a green household.

Chocs N' Boxes, a Filipino-owned gourmet chocolate shop in a Chicago suburb, is the only chocolate maker and seller in the U.S. that sources its chocolate from cacao beans grown by farmers in the Philippines. PF Correspondent Rey de la Cruz reports.

And if you're still wondering if Filipinos have established their place in the American tapestry, check out our ongoing list of  FilAms Among the Remarkable and Famous, already on part 46. Our publisher, Mona Lisa Yuchengco, who does the compiling, sees no end in sight.

[Video of the Week] Claude Tayag

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