Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Opinion
WE Filipinos generally never speak ill of the dead. Mostly, we look at the good side of the dearly departed. I will make an exception in the case of dismissed cop Rolando Mendoza, who caused tremendous damage to the reputation of the Philippines and to all Filipinos by taking hostage a busload of tourists from Hong Kong last week, then killing eight of them before he himself was killed.Mendoza was supposedly a decorated cop who his family and friends say was dismissed unfairly. I just learned th...
IN March, the Texas State Board of Education approved several extreme right-wing curriculum changes. Due to the number of public school students in the state, the changes in Texas could drastically influence textbooks throughout the country. That is why I authored and introduced Senate Bill 1451 to require the State Board of Education to review all California social studies textbooks to ensure that they have not been changed as a result of textbook changes in Texas. Earlier this week, SB 1451 to...
Note: This is the first part of the unspeakable event the free world has familiarized itself with, referred to as '9/11. ' NINE years ago, '9/11' became deeply and painfully etched in the memory of the American people, unlike fondly-generated recollections as most signal days' celebrations go; yet, that horrific well-known date remains as a reminder of what took place on that site that morphed into Ground Zero. The past June 6th event saw multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalitions of Americans rise i...
A FILIPINA friend from Israel emailed me that when she was in Hong Kong a few years ago, she visited a non-Filipino colleague at his condo unit. As she was leaving, he warned her that she might get challenged for using the elevator because Filipino domestic employees, he said, are restricted to the stairs. "It was a very high-rise building!" she related in shock. In the new award-winning Ted Unarce documentary, Modern Day Slaves, a Filipina domestic employee in Hong Kong (one of four OFW subject...
THE news about the Manila hostage-taking incident on August 23, 2010 was covered by most international media organizations. Up to now, I still hear news reports and read many opinion columns and comments about the incident. There are varied sentiments and reactions to the incident--- from outrage, sympathy, shame, some were appalled by the incident, while others conveyed their condolences, mourning, and solidarity to both the people of the Philippines and Hong Kong. The outflow of emotions from ...
THIS is a Labor Day halohalo, a Herb Caen 3-dot special… For the dog days of August there is just too much to talk about in so little space. But we begin with Franz Schurmann who died Aug.20 in San Francisco, at age 84. Franz co-founded the Pacific News Service along with his partner Sandy Close. As a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, Franz was an intimidating intellectual, an Asia scholar who had 12 languages and all the facts at his command. When I began working with PNS, I was privile...
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