Filipino Youth across Canada commemorate Deeward, call for scrapping the LCP
Filipino youth in three major cities across Canada will hold vigils, masses and marches over the next two days to commemorate the recent death of 15-year old Deeward Ponte and to call for the “scrapping of the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) and towards genuine social justice for Filipno youth and their families.” Local Filipino youth in Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada/ Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance - Vancouver (UKPC/FCYA - BC) will lead a vigil and march tomorrow, Friday, February 8, 2008 in Vancouver. The vigil will start at 4 pm at Sir Charles Tupper (419 East 24th Ave.) to mark the site of the 2003 death of Mao Jomar Lanot and march to Gray’s Park (Fraser and 33rd Ave.) where Ponte was killed. The two Filipino teens were children of former live-in caregivers. In Montreal, Kabataang Montreal – Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance will offer a mass at St. Kevin’s Parish, 5600 Chemin de la Cote-des-Neiges this evening on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. In Toronto, UKPC/FCYA – Ontario will hold a vigil on Friday, February 8, 2008 [...]
Film Series and Discussion: “Filipina Transnational Domesticity and Feminist Activism”
Toronto, ON – The Philippine Women Centre of Ontario (PWC-ON) and the Women and Gender Studies Institute of the University of Toronto will launch a documentary film series on "Filipina Transnational Domesticity and Feminist Activism." The series will explore the experiences of Filipino women on the areas of migration and domestic work; U.S. militarization and sex trafficking in the Philippines; impacts of globalization on Filipino women; and Filipino women's organizing in Canada and the Philippines. Discussants from community organizations and the academia will follow to highlight the various organizing work and research being done on these topics. All events run from 7-9 pm, Wilson Hall Boardroom, Wilson Hall (40 Willcocks Street), New College, University of Toronto. This film series is also co-sponsored by: the Southeast Asia Studies Group at the Asia Institute, the Chu Community Network at the Asia Institute, The Department for Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE, and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. ------------------- Feb. 7. Domestic Work and the Filipino People's Experience Paper Dolls (Documentary film by Tomar Heymann). Israel, 2006. [...]
Province Wide Filipino Youth “PALAKASIN” Conference in Toronto: PALAKASIN! Ang Tunay na Ugnayan/Strengthen our Youth, Unite for Freedom
Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino Sa Canada/Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance-Ontario in partnership with The Philippine Women Centre of Ontario (PWC-ON) and SIKLAB-Ontario is conducting a two-day province-wide consultation and conference entitled: "PALAKASIN! Ang Tunay na Ugnayan/Strengthen our Youth, Unite for Freedom" on November 30 - December 1, 2007 (Venue to be announced). Significantly, we have chosen to come together on November 30th to commemorate Filipino revolutionary, Andres Bonifacio, and to celebrate the Filipino peoples' rich history of youth activism and resistance. PALAKASIN! will allow us to come together and strengthen our links with other Filipino youth, the Filipino Canadian community, and our fellow sisters and brothers in the Philippines. By strengthening these links we strengthen our unity towards collectively fighting for our rights and welfare and our future. This province-wide youth conference and consultation is part of our ongoing project to establish full integration, settlement and participation of Filipinos in a multicultural, multi-ethnic Canada. Because we recognize that the issues of Filipino youth in Canada continue to be of major concern to the community, this project includes a component [...]