The newly turned over C-130 cargo plane to the Philippine Air Force was flown to the Philippines from the United States with a female pilot-in-command, Major Marjorie Mukay. This was the first time in the history of the Philippine military that a cargo plane was flown by a female pilot-in-command. News story from Global Inquirer.
Earlier this month, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 443, The Truth Act and the Domestic Worker's Bill. The TRUTH Act creates increased transparency and due process in the ways that local law enforcement cooperate and function with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Domestic Worker's Bill grants overtime protections to California's privately hired domestic workers and removes the sunset provision and make the law's provisions permanent.
Learn more about new and upcoming pro-Immigrant policies in California after the jump.
FWN stands with The Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus of Alameda County in denouncing Fox News "The O'Reilly Factor " October 3rd segment as implicitly racist. The segment featured reporter Jesse Watters taking a trip to New York's Chinatown to ask passersby a series of culturally insensitive and ignorant questions while playing stereotypical Asian music and intercutting the story with martial arts movie cuts.
Vizkidz Publishing LLC is co-founded by Filipina-American Designer Abigail Ricarte and Norwegian-American Data Journalist Liv Buli. Together, the pair has created a series of children’s books that illustrate the basic concepts of data visualization. They recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowd-source funding for the initial print, publishing, and distribution of the first book in the series: “Penelope Pie Throws A Pizza Party.”
Learn more about Vizkidz: http://www.vizkidz.rocks/
The Impact Fund has created the Class Action Hall of Fame to honor the courage and sacrifice of lead plaintiffs whose commitment and determination has led to significant advances in economic, environmental, racial and social justice.
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FWN Members Anny Misa Hefti (Global FWN100™ '15, 16) and Cheryl Sevegan (Global FWN100™ '15) of European Network of Filipinos in Diaspora (ENFiD) converged in Tel Aviv, Israel for a roundtable discussion in line with Peace Table's month of WomanSeriously, a global campaign to influence a shift in policy and practice at the global, regional and national levels away from war and toward a durable and just peace.
Talk about #GlobalPinayPower!
"I am sad at the passing of Alice Bulos, our esteemed Filipino American leader. Alice, our community's Shero, an extraordinary citizen, led almost single-handedly the campaign to amplify the Filipino American voice encouraging more FilAms to run for elected office and hounding elected officials to appoint more FilAms to powerful boards and commissions..."
