Filipino Advocates for Justice

OAKLAND, CA — “Disgrace.” This is the word President Donald Trump used to describe Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s warning last month to undocumented immigrants about looming immigration raids. On February 24th, Schaff posted this letter — notifying...

OAKLAND, Calif. – About 50% of the Filipino population in and around the San Francisco Bay Area are not registered to vote, according to a new study from the Filipino Advocates for Justice (FAJ), many of...

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Filipino families in the San Francisco Bay Area who are facing evictions say they are not backing down and are taking the fight to the voters this November. Around 30 families received eviction...

ALAMEDA, Calif. – For Filipina American Gina Yambao, who is a single-working mother of three, the idea of being displaced is slowly becoming a reality. Yambao and her fellow tenants of the Bay View Apartments in...

SAN FRANCISCO – It was a rainy Friday by the BART station at 24th and Mission Streets, but that didn’t stop the people who chanted, danced, and rallied to permanently protect overtime pay for domestic workers. This demonstration was...

OAKLAND, Calif. – These students and workers say that big corporations and wealthy commercial property owners in California are getting away with not paying their fair share of property taxes which takes away from funding of...

By Rommel Conclara, ABS-CBN North America Bureau Sept. 26, 2014 OAKLAND, Calif. – September 23 marked the National Voter Registration Day in the United States in preparation for the November mid-term elections. All 435 seats in...