TELLTALE SIGNS

by Rodel Rodis
August 1, 2011
A few months ago, I came across as surefire a subject for my weekly column as any that I have ever written. It would be about a successful Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Washington Post who was voluntarily outing himself as an undocumented immigrant. Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
August 1, 2011
The lustiest cheers that greeted Pres.Noynoy Aquino’s July 25 State of the Nation Address (SONA) came when he declared “Malinaw ang pahiwatig natin ngayon sa buong mundo: Ang sa Pilipinas ay sa Pilipinas; kapag tumapak ka sa  Recto Bank, para ka na ring tumapak sa Recto Avenue. Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
July 16, 2011
On July 8, hundreds of Filipino Americans demonstrated in front of all six of China’s consular offices in the U.S. to protest China’s dispatch of its giant oil rig to the Spratly Islands which is within the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone of the Philippines. Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
July 1, 2011
As Filipinos in America work feverishly to prepare for protest actions in front all the Chinese consular offices in the United States on July 8, the question is asked: why aren’t Filipinos in the Philippines similarly incensed by China’s plans to set up oil rigs in the Spratly islands territory of the Philippines this July? Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
May 16, 2011
A president’s “defining moment” is generally considered the event which either makes or breaks him and which determines the course of his future. For Pres. Barack Obama. Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
May 2, 2011
On the day of the execution of the three Filipino drug mules by the Chinese government, Philippine talk radio was abuzz with callers decrying the government’s failure to save them while denouncing the drug syndicates that preyed on them. But on Ramon Tulfo’s popular talk show on DZIQ Radyo Inquirer, the question puzzling callers was what happens to Chinese nationals arrested in the Philippines for drug trafficking. Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
April 4, 2011
The Republican Party – otherwise known as the GOP (“Grand Old Party”) – has made significant inroads in the Filipino American community to the consternation of the Democratic Party activists who have supported the community on issues from immigration reform to the fight for Filipino WW II veterans equity. Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
April 4, 2011
In a scene in the Broadway musical, Les Miserables, student rebels set up barricades in Paris in 1832 and call on the people to support the revolution: “Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Beyond the barricade, is there a world you long to see? Then join in the fight that will give you the right to be free Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
March 20, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – Along with Philippine consulates and embassies all over the world, the local Philippine Consulate celebrated the 25th anniversary of the “Edsa People Power Revolution” on February 25 and it did so with a concelebrated mass and a forum featuring as guest speaker a “son of Edsa” Continue reading →

by Rodel Rodis
February 26, 2011
The widening Philippine senate investigation into systemic corruption in the Philippine military was triggered by events that began on December 18, 2003 when US Customs agents at the San Francisco International Airport seized $100,000 in cash from two young Filipino-Americans who hid the money in their hand-carried luggage. Continue reading →