Of Migration and Solidarity Box

In the 60s, the first wave of migrants from the Philippines to the United States landed in Hawaii and neighboring states to settle as migrant workers with no specific professional and gendered identities, except that some were technically skilled and some were college degree holders or intellectually and academically advantaged in their own right.

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Dear Land of our Beginnings

The chief of state, President Noynoy Aquino, ironically, a scion of an icon lying protrate on the tarmac of history, all at once, comes out from the portal of hypocrisy into the bloodstained stretches of his “matuwid na daan”-- Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! — of the indigenous people’s blood.

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