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ConGen Mario de Leon On to New Duty, Bids Goodbye to East Coast Filipinos
Editor’s Note: Philippine Consul General Mario Lopez de Leon Jr. officially ends his five-year tour of duty in the US Northeast on October 15, 2016. OSM! heartily thanks him for his leadership that is in touch with the conditions of the Filipinos in the East Coast. He carries with him the finesse and faith in […]
Easter Canoy: To Save the Earth, Learn from the Indigenous Peoples
By Marivir R. Montebon As leaders, scientists, and environment officers in Paris are dealing with the nitty gritty of a treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and its budget to lessen extreme climate changes and promote Earth-friendly energy sources, OSM! features one woman who has spent her adult life immersing with indigenous tribes as they preserve and […]
NYC Nurses Lead Communities to Help Needy
By Marivir R. Montebon Two good friends help each other to be able to make a difference in the lives of ordinary people together. Joy Chavez Abraham and May Tumulak Durano, both nurses, show us how. New York City — Joy Chavez Abraham needed to sleep before going to work on a night shift […]
Where Have All the Millions of Dollars Gone?
A serious rehabilitation effort that responds to the challenge of climate change must be in the mind now, especially our leaders. – Rosca Manhattan – At the Justice-not-Charity forum of AF3IRM NYC, transnational feminist and writer Ninotchka Rosca presented the heart-breaking reality of the conditions of the survivors of Yolanda/Haiyan . “We didn’t […]
Of Yolanda, the Prior Catastrophes, and My Sweet Typhoon Liam
By Joan Ariete New York City In the evening of November 9, the day after Yolanda, the strongest storm recorded in history battered the Philippines, my three-year-old son Liam was excitedly assembling a house, a Lego tower of yellow, red and orange, and assuring himself, “very good.” He would ecstatically say “wow!” every time his […]
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