protests

LOS ANGELES — A strike 20 months in the making. Thousands of teachers, students, and allies marched out of the classroom demanding higher wages, smaller classroom sizes, and support staff in the nation’s second-largest school district. Many...

Rallies held on Thursday highlighted the collective personal frustrations boiling over, as the partial government shutdown made history as the longest ever. Friday marked the shutdown’s 21st day. Newly-elected Fil-Am California Congressman TJ Cox joined the...

Throughout northern and southern California, Filipinos raised awareness on U.S. and Philippine issues as it joined several actions. In San Mateo, members of the Filipino American Human Rights Alliance joined a multicultural celebration of the 70th...

Human rights defenders also marched to the Trump tower to send US President Donald Trump a message: to stop sending $184.5 million worth of US aid to the Philippine National Police and armed forces of the...

LOS ANGELES — A week after Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and his Chinese counterpart Ji Xingpin met Philippine activists were back on the streets. “We would like to remind the chinese government the Philippines has territorial...

NEW YORK CITY — For a quarter of a century now – the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, or OPAPP, has and continues to find ways to bring peace in Mindanao. But...

As Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to announce a series of agreements, Filipinos in California hit the streets in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The memorandum of agreements between the two...

LOS ANGELES — Hours after reports surfaced that the Trump administration is considering changing protection for transgender people, which includes removing the definition of transgender, hundreds rallied outside of Los Angeles City Hall with the message that...

SAN FRANCISCO — Members of the Filipino community, along with their allies, rally in front of the Mint Mall in downtown San Francisco. The building has historically been home to many Filipinos who recently immigrated to the...

Filipino-Canadian Uni Urchin may be jailed because of her involvement in the protest against the Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion project in Burnaby, British Columbia. Uni Urchin has been at the forefront of a B.C. First Nation...