WHO:  Single & Straight* friends, family and community members age 30+

WHAT:  take a leap: speed dating mixer and FAJ fundraiser

WHERE:  Spice Monkey Restaurant, 1628 Webster Street, Oakland (Webster @ 17th)

WHEN:  Leap Day, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 6:30-8:30PM

WHY:  just for fun, to meet new friends, and, maybe, to find love

* If you are not straight and are interested in participating in future  lgbtq speed dating fundraisers, please email aktacdol@gmail.com

RESERVE YOUR SPOT IN OUR FUNDRAISER IN TWO STEPS:

1. Fill out this Google Form with your information so we can best match you: Fill out this Form
2. Pay $40+ (it is a fundraiser, so please donate generously!).
   You can pay online: Click Here
   You can also drop off or mail a check at: 310 8th Street, Suite 308, Oakland, CA 94607.

NOT SINGLE? PLAY CUPID IN TWO STEPS:
If you are NOT single you can still play cupid by sponsoring a single friend to attend the event or just donating to help make this event happen!

1. Fill out this Google Form with your information so we can best match you: Fill out this Form
2. Pay $40+ (it is a fundraiser, so please donate generously!).
   You can pay online: Click Here
   You can also drop off or mail a check at: 310 8th Street, Suite 308, Oakland, CA 94607.

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Domestic workers are mothers and grandmothers who do the work that makes all other work possible!

Join us as we call for the passage of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Assembly Bill 889. The Children’s March and press conference will be followed by lobby visits and a children’s festival.

Visit www.domesticworkers.org for more information on Bill AB889!

Event Information
When: Tues. January 24, 2011, 10:00am – 3:00pm
(Caravans depart from Oakland and San Francisco @ 8:00am & return by 5:00pm)
Where: State Capitol Building
West Side Steps (10th St. between N St. and L St.) Sacramento, CA

IF YOU NEED A RIDE, PLEASE REGISTER FOR BUS SPACE BY CLICKING HERE.

Accessible transportation, childcare, and interpretation is available upon request.

Please invite friends, family and others in your community to join us in this year’s largest event in support of the Domestic Worker’s Bill of Rights.

If you are unable to join us for the Children’s March in Sacramento, join us for the Children’s March sign-making, “stroller dance” practice, and Press Conference on Wed. January 18, 10:30 – 11:30am at the SF Women’s Building (3543 18^th Street at Valencia).

RSVP with Katie Joaquin by calling (510) 465-9876 or email her kjoaquin [at] filipinos4justice.org

Let’s make this year the year of the domestic worker!

Please donate $25, $50, $100 or whatever amount you want by clicking here.

Your tax deductible donation of $100 will allow FAJ to contact and mobilize 20 voters to the polls in support of progressive issues in 2012.  No other organization provides services and develops leaders in the Filipino community in the East Bay for as long as FAJ has.

To hear how they have been personally impacted by the economic crisis, please watch this short video:

Filipinos are speaking out about the economic inequities. Help us take this momentum to the polls.

Please donate $25, $50, $100 or whatever amount you want by clicking here.

Check out FAJ’s media coverage to catch up on some of the other work they’ve been doing.

To see more footage from the Nov. 2nd General Strike press conference, click here.

P.S. Your tax deductible donation of $100 will allow FAJ to contact and mobilize 20 voters to the polls in support of progressive issues in 2012.  No other organization provides services and develops leaders in the Filipino community in the East Bay for as long as FAJ has. 

Join us for a short press conference on 11/2 at 11 am in the Conference Room, 1st floor of the Asian Resource Center 310 8th St. Oakland, CA 94610 (press advisory below)

We will march as a group to Oscar Grant Plaza (City Hall) at 11:30 and meet up with other organizations. Meet us in the lobby near the 8th St. entrance.

Solidarity Statement: Tayo Ang 99% / We are the 99%:

Filipino Advocates for Justice Stands in Solidarity with Occupy Oakland

Filipino Advocates for Justice (FAJ) supports the “OCCUPY Movement” including the right of Occupy Oakland to peacefully encamp at Oscar Grant Plaza to speak their grievances.

We are in agreement that we need to end corporate greed and the vast accumulation of wealth by a tiny minority. We agree with the growing belief that corporations (especially financial institutions) and the rich are responsible for the economic crisis and have an obligation to help us recover. It is time that the rich and corporations pay a fair tax so we can restore the quality of life we call the American Dream.

There’s no justice in a system that serves the top 1% at the expense of the bottom 99%. Banks and corporations, some of whom received government bailouts, are reporting increased earnings and rewarding executives with multi-million dollar bonuses, while the 99% feel no recovery. For the 99% the cost of living is out of control. Our treasured institutions like public schools, libraries, public parks, and support services for the more vulnerable are suffering for lack of revenue. High unemployment, home foreclosures, teacher layoffs, school closures, soaring college tuitions, public safety layoffs, and cut backs in programs for the elderly make a joke of the American Dream. It is no wonder the 99% are so angry in the U.S. and globally.

In the Filipino community people like Romy lost his good paying industrial job in the plant closures of the 1990’s and has never been able to get another decent paying job like it. There was never a recovery for him. Josefina, now 78 years old, lost her job as an airport screener after 9/11, and must now piece together a few hours here and there as a caregiver. She is underpaid (even when working for rich people), exploited and has few labor rights. Nyda who would rather have stayed in the Philippines, has to help support her adult children who are working all over the planet because the Philippine economy is buried under massive debt.

We support the Occupy movement because immigrants are blamed for America’s economic meltdown, when in fact, they are victims of the global financial crisis AND trade policies like NAFTA, which causes poverty and the displacement of people around the world. While our government is focused on incarcerating hundreds of thousands of immigrants in detention centers for profit and deports over 400,000 last year, only a handful of Wall Street executives responsible for bringing our economic system to its knees have been punished. Use tax dollars to go after the stolen wealth, not immigrants!

The 99% are waking up. 85% of the 600 Filipino voters we surveyed favor a California ballot measure that would make corporations and the wealthy pay a fair tax to insure a better life for future generations.

The media says this movement is not focused, but that is not true. Clearly, we want a greater share of the wealth that we helped create. We want Wall Street to pay (big time) for the damage it did to the U.S. economy. We want our elected officials to stop taking corporate contributions and represent the 99%. We want democracy for the 99% in the U.S. AND for the 99% of the world.

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** Media Advisory **

Contact: Geraldine Alcid, (415) 823-3489– galcid[at]filipinos4justice.org

Andrea Tacdol, (510) 435-4343 – aktacdol[at]gmail.com

Tayo Ang 99%/We are the 99%

Filipino Advocates for Justice calls on our community to support the Occupy Movement

WHAT: Filipino Advocates for Justice (FAJ) will be holding a press conference highlighting diverse speakers from the Filipino Community. From seniors to college graduates, domestic workers to youth the majority of our community has been feeling the ramifications of the economic downturn. We believe that Filipinos are the 99% and that US and corporations need to put the needs of its people before profit. Following the press conference, FAJ will be gathering a contingent of Filipinos to march in support of Oakland’s General Strike.

WHO: Katie Joaquin, Filipino Advocates for Justice Staff Member

List of Speakers (TBA)

Concerned citizens

WHERE: Asian Resource Center (1st Floor Conference Room)

310 8th Street, Oakland, CA,

WHEN: Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Press Conference – 11:00AM

Filipino Contingent to March – 11:30AM

VISUALS: Diverse Filipinos will be holding signs and banners during press conference and will be marching to join the larger contingent.

FAJ kicked off a 9 week campaign to survey Filipino voters in Oakland and Union City about taxing the wealthiest 1% and corporations as part of the Take Back the American Dream Campaign 2011 of  Mobilize the Immigrant Vote (MIV).

As the growing Occupy Wall Street movement against corporate greed and the super-rich captures attention globally, voters may have an opportunity to weigh in on fiscal reforms and the budget on the 2012 ballot.  Many of the voters (democrats and republicans) reached by FAJ  phone bankers report dissatisfaction with the state of the economy, corporate greed, and the gross disparity between the wealthiest Americans and the average person.

The “Take Back the American Dream Campaign” will offer a compelling narrative aimed at capturing the hearts and minds of everyday people based on the core values that the majority of our communities share, rather than on the issues that have traditionally divided us

The American Dream promises equality for all. The opportunity for all people — immigrants, and communities of color included — to send their children to good schools and universities, purchase homes, and quality care for our elders.  However, the revenue that supports the very institutions charged with opening opportunities for our communities are under attack.  Every year, the poor and middle class pay disproportionately more in taxes while the rich pay a smaller and smaller share.  This trend has led to a 200+% increase in tuition at public colleges and universities over the past decade, teacher lay-offs, slashed services for seniors and the poor,  cuts to county hospitals and more.

The “Take Back the American Dream Campaign” takes on the misconception that taxes are bad.  The Campaign will fight for fair and just tax and fiscal reform at the local and state levels by piloting a voter engagement and ethnic media campaign that contributes to major wins for tax and fiscal reform at the ballot box in November 2012.

For more information or to get involved, contact us at 510.465.9876.

September 12th marked Philippine News’ 50th Anniversary and Awards celebration.  They honored FAJ’s Executive Director, Lillian Galedo with their Justice Advocate award which Pulitzer Prize recipient Jose Antonio Vargas presented to her.

50th Anniversary honorees were selected for unique categories of community service.  Other recipients that were in attendance at the event included: community organizer Alice Bulos; broadcast journalist Lloyd LaCuesta; political strategist Mona Pasquil; and philanthropist Monalisa Yuchengco.  Other Award recipients included:  Black Eyed Peas,  pop star Api.de.Ap; technology innovator Dado Banatao; TV star dancer Cheryl Burke; presidential physician Dr. Connie Mariano; sports hero Manny Paquiao; and Philippine News founders/community champions Alex and Luly Esclamado.

Congratulations Lillian!

Filipino Advocates for Justice is one of six agencies in the East Bay certified by the Board of Immigration Appeals to practice immigration law

Filipino Advocates will be hosting informational workshops on Naturalization and Family Petitioning.

Family Immigration Workshops: Learn about the steps and requirements for petitioning family members.

Start Time: 1:00 pm
Date: 2011-09-24
End Time: 2:00 pm

Filipino Advocates for Justice is one of six agencies in the East Bay certified by the Board of Immigration Appeals to practice immigration law

Filipino Advocates will be hosting informational workshops on Naturalization and Family Petitioning.

Naturalization Workshops: Learn about the requirements for applying for US citizenship and the benefits of citizenship.

Start Time: 1:00 pm
Date: 2011-09-17
End Time: 2:00 pm

Filipino Advocates for Justice is one of six agencies in the East Bay certified by the Board of Immigration Appeals to practice immigration law

Filipino Advocates will be hosting informational workshops on Naturalization and Family Petitioning.

Family Immigration Workshops: Learn about the steps and requirements for petitioning family members.

Start Time: 1:00 pm
Date: 2011-09-10
End Time: 2:00 pm