The Tau Gamma Phi fraternity wants a settlement with the Pangilinan family following charges of grave threat and serious physical injury filed by the grandson of Senator Kiko Pangilinan yesterday.
Robert Pangilinan, 18 years old and a third year Hotel Management student of Adamson University, was repeatedly bullied for a year and beaten up on August 7 by members of the said frat.
It was standing room only in the Los Angeles Central Library last July. The crowd of some 300 ranged from multigenerational Mexican immigrant families to young Californians of indigenous Mexican extraction to academics, some of whom had traveled across the country for the event. The participants enjoyed readings of poetry and short stories and a rap performance by Pat Boy. And yet none of the material was in Spanish — it was in Zapotec, Tzotzil, Mayan and other languages spoken long before Europeans washed up on the shores of what is now Mexico.
White supremacy is a funny thing.
Not ha-ha funny. Too many incidents in the past weeks, months and years demonstrate that, when properly motivated and mixed with the right kinds of circumstance — poverty, resentment and diminished life prospects — those who cotton to extremist beliefs are capable of doing great harm. But villains too easily understood make it harder to get our hands on fixing what’s clearly broken.
If there were an “Oppression Olympics,” Maysoon Zayid would be a gold medalist, she says in her hugely popular TED Talk. After all, she’s a disabled Palestinian Muslim woman … from New Jersey. Appearing at OZY Fest 2017 in New York City’s Central Park to discuss disability and inclusion on a panel hosted by the Ford Foundation, Zayid said, “I’m here to represent intersectionality and Islam. And sexiness.”
When Alaa Hariri, a young Syrian student living in Portugal studying for her master’s in architecture, was asked at a birthday party what she missed most about Syria, she answered, “My family.” And then, she tells me over tea in a café in Lisbon’s Príncipe Real Garden, she “unconsciously” added, “I really miss the bread.” From this simple statement, Mezze — a Middle Eastern restaurant in Lisbon that employs Syrian refugees — was born.
"America must be a light to the world, not just a missile."
--Nancy Pelosi
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Families of Ilonggos living in Guam have expressed serious concern after it was reported that North Korea has threatened to launch missles in that US territory located roughly 2,500 kilometers from Manila, Philippines.
"I worry a lot for my uncles, my sisters and their families," remarked Lourdes Saloma-Buck of Bridgeport, Connecticut. "Where will they seek refuge just in case North Korea attacks Guam?"
Over three decades, Sri Lankan Tamil businessman Sundar Thangarajan built a stash of Indian bank notes totaling the equivalent of $2,000 as insurance if he had to move to India from the island where the ethnic minority has often felt under siege. But on a visit to the southern Indian city of Chennai this April, Thangarajan decided he would no longer save Indian notes, and instead bought gold bars. His insecurities in Sri Lanka haven’t disappeared. But his faith in Indian currency has vanished now that his savings have turned to scrap.
