Filipino workers can be found in hundreds of countries around the world—a true global labor force, with the sakadas’ to be the first recruited collectively in significant numbers in the early 1900s. Now, the Philippines has transnational apparatus of institutions that facilitate the out-migration of workers and a network of consular offices around the world that facilitate migration.

Dear Friends and Pamilya,

My deepest and heartfelt pasasalamat to all those who have generously given to my 70th birthyear fundraising drive for KULARTS (Kulintang Arts, Inc).

Columbia Journalism Professor Sheila Coronel is delivering a lecture, "Can the press be truly free? Lessons from the Philippines and Southeast Asia," in Berkley on October 9th.

Friday, October 11, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST

Silence, Power, and Making Do: Keywords for Philippine Cinema's
Archival Afterlives
Bliss Cua Lim, Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Toronto

The Philippine flag shall be raised at the Kalana O Maui building front lawn by representative Filipino American military officers, and shall be raised throughout the month to honor Maui’s Filipino community and heritage, its plantation roots, and to celebrate the diversity and culture that makes Maui so unique.

Get ready for a month full of programming and events in and around the community in honor of Filipino American History Month.

On Thursday, October 10, join Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) at our 41st Anniversary Gala: United in Action.