by Joseph Pimentel/Asianjournal.com
LOS ANGELES — The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) is urging the FilAm community to vote for Proposition 92, a measure that would increase funding to statewide community colleges and lower student fees from $20 to $15 a unit.
“The Filipino community needs to understand that many FilAm nurses and health professionals working [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 30, 2008
API Leaders Campaign for Prop 92
January 30, 2008
Women Want Contraceptives Ban in Manila Revoked
by Joel Roja/Asianjournal.com
MANILA – Twenty Manila residents Tuesday asked the Court of Appeals (CA) to declare null and void the eightyear-old executive order issued by former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza banning the use of artificial methods of contraception in the city.
In a 64-page petition for certiorari and prohibition, the petitioners, mostly housewives, through their counsels [...]
January 30, 2008
SF’s DA, USD, Fight to End Truancy in Schools: Records show problem most prevalent in ethnic communities
by Malou Liwanag-Aguilar/Asianjournal.com
SAN FRANCISCO — In 2007, nearly 5,500 students — about 10% of the district’s total student population — were considered habitual and chronic truants.Although the there was a very slight from the previous year, the number of habitually truant children has remained above 5,000 for the last three years in spite of the [...]
January 29, 2008
Couple Sentenced for Slavery of Pinay
By Cynthia De Castro/Asianjournal.com
James Jackson, former vice president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures, was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine during his sentencing in US District Court in Los Angeles. The couple pleaded guilty earlier to harboring Nena Ruiz, a domestic worker whose visa had expired, and holding her in forced labor.
Elizabeth was [...]
January 29, 2008
FilAms Protest US Citizenship Application Delays
By Cynthia De Castro/Asianjournal.com
Citizenship applications typically take about seven months to process. An increase in applications, however, has caused delays as long as 18 months, the USCIS reported.
“We’re really encouraging the USCIS who increased the fee to $675, which is very, very difficult for a lot of working families, to process those applications. They increased [...]
January 29, 2008
SC Dismisses ABS-CBN Plea Against ‘Wowowee’ Stampede Probe
By Maria Sunantha Quibilan/Asianjournal.com
THE Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. that questioned the result of the investigation conducted by the Department of Justice into the tragic stampede at the ULTRA stadium (now Philsports Arena) two years ago.
In a 22-page decision, the high court, through Associate Justice Conchitina Carpio Morales, [...]
January 29, 2008
Amparo Filed Vs. Rights Group
by Joel Roja/Asianjournal.com
MANILA — Another petition for the issuance of a writ of amparo has been filed before the Supreme Court, this time not against the military, but a human rights group and Gumaca, Quezon province Vice Mayor Josefa Carmela Lavidez.
Aside from, Lavidez, petitioner Alfreda Orlina filed the case against KARAPATAN (Southern Tagalog) members Charlie [...]
January 28, 2008
FilVet Organizations Call for Mass Walkout
by Joseph Pimentel/Asianjournal.com
LOS ANGELES – Officials from the American Coalition of Filipino Veterans (ACFV) and Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) are urging the FilAm community to walk out of their workplace on April 9, Bataan Day to show support for the Filipino Veterans Equity Act and Family Reunification Bill.
The two bills are currently stalled [...]
January 28, 2008
Hospital Strike Averted
By Jherlyn Meneses/Asianjournal.com
MANILA — The planned hospital holiday by medical practitioners on Sunday, Jan. 27, will not push through after the Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) reached a compromise on Thursday over a contested provision in the Cheaper Medicines bill.
The agreement was made possible by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III [...]
January 28, 2008
LA City Attorney Announces Shift in Fighting Crime
By Rene Villaroman/Asianjournal.com
LOS ANGELES — City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo declared that his office has changed its approach to crime from a demographic to a geographic model to keep up with the changing times. The announcement was made at the Second Annual Media Forum for the Asian-Pacific Islander Community on Thursday, January 24.
“In the past it [...]
