More Extraordinary Women
/One of our favorite places to converge at when we're in Metro Manila is Cibo (pronounced chee-bo), a restaurant in the Shangri-la Plaza mall in Mandaluyong. Not only is the mall a convenient meeting point when coming from various places in the traffic-choked metropolis, the restaurant itself is right smack in the middle of the second floor lobby, the better to eat, chat and people-watch at the same time. Its most important draw, of course, is the food. Cibo is an Italian restaurant, but it's not the checkered-tablecloth kind of Italian that leaves you burping and bloated the rest of your day. Cibo dishes are light and healthy and satisfying -- crafted undoubtedly by a gourmet chef. And that's Margarita Fores, a wiz in both the kitchen and business, an exemplary Filipina as profiled by PF Correspondent Criselda Yabes.
This is our last issue for March, Women's History Month 2024, and like our other issues this month, it's chock-full of stories about Filipinas who have made indelible marks not just in the Philippines but in other countries where they have settled. The last installment of "Filipina Movers and Shakers" shows the reach and expanse of the sisterhood of Pinay achievers while the second (and final) part of the National Historical Commission's "Women Workers of 19th Century Manila" provides a historical perspective of women's work in the Philippines.
In San Francisco, a recent gathering of Fil-Am women viewed a rough cut of a forthcoming documentary, "Manilatown Manang," which answers the oft-asked question, "But Where Are the Manangs?" The Manilatown Heritage Foundation film directed by Caroline Cabading honors two generations of Filipina women activists in San Francisco's Manilatown who worked side-by-side with their male comrades in defending the I-Hotel. PF contributor Lorna Lardizabal-Dietz reports on the event.
We couldn't resist adding a bit of spice and snark in this issue and Myles A. Garcia's "Gina, Imelda, Manda and the Tasadays" serves up just the right amount to close the curtain on PF's Women's History Month 2024 coverage.
For those whose submissions didn't make it this month, fret not. For us, every month is women's month. The celebration never ceases.
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[Video of the Week] Manila Visita Iglesia 2024
Anti-Asian Hate Watch
A woman is accused of attacking an Asian American elder in S.F. The case has inflamed city politics
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/shoving-hearing-thea-hopkins-jenkins-peskin-
A man got probation after stabbing a 94-year-old woman. It’s another reckoning for S.F.’s AAPI community
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/stabbing-probation-protest-19362275.php?
Protesters rally against probation in stabbing of 94 year old
https://asamnews.com/2024/03/22/justice-leniency-rehabilitation-sentencing/
Asian-American lawmakers decry bill to ban agents of hostile countries from buying Georgia farmland
https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/03/21/asian-american-lawmakers-decry-bill-to-ban-agents-of-hostile-countries-from-buying-georgia-farmland/
Buddhists Bring Karmic Healing to Antioch, California
https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/buddhists-bring-karmic-healing-to-antioch-california/
Property crimes can now be hate crimes
https://www.goldendalesentinel.com/news/property-crimes-can-now-be-hate-crimes/article_34c0b4ea-e6cb-11ee-9473-278629ac12ef.html
Funding provided by the State of California.
In The Know
Review: In ‘Larry the Musical,’ Filipinos fight to make labor leader a household name
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/larry-itliong-musical-sf-filipinos-19365243.php
Scorching schools: How heat worsens conditions of poor students in PH
https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/563065/scorching-schools-how-heat-worsens-conditions-of-poor-students-in-ph?utm_source=(direct)&utm_medium=gallery
US Ambassador MaryKay Carlson shares her life, home, and why she loves the Philippines
https://www.tatlerasia.com/power-purpose/front-female/us-ambassador-marykay-carlson?
A frustrated community demands the PVUSD school board bring back an ethnic studies consultant
https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/a-frustrated-community-demands-the-pvusd-school-board-bring-back-an-ethnic-studies-consultant/article_7da1425a-e6ea-11ee-a319-97d64aaa50c0.html
From humble beginnings to big dreams: Injap Sia helps sari-sari stores level up, 200 converted into mini-marts
https://bilyonaryo.com/2024/03/22/from-humble-beginnings-to-big-dreams-injap-sia-helps-sari-sari-stores-level-up-200-converted-into-mini-marts/property/
