Blanking Out

This is going to be short because I've willed my mind to go blank today, the 3rd of November, the day Americans are deciding which future path the country will take. 

It has been an exhausting, emotionally draining year and I don't expect it to be much better in the following months, with the pandemic getting worse and all.

I think back to the Philippines in February 1986, when the political situation came to a head after years of protesting, exposing, organizing. The result was beyond our wildest dreams. Will it happen here, in this day and age, in this bastion of what has been exposed as a fragile democracy?

By the time you read this, I hope there is already some clarity, if not finality, to the answer.

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In the Know

Celebrating three generations of Filipino labor leaders
https://www.thestand.org/2020/10/celebrating-three-generations-of-filipino-labor-leaders/?fbclid=IwAR1SRCHNWggT4aG0Ib5HoemYt2ZJLToohEgc-0sWzAM5jtwu1sYLmoIJHm0

MyCebu.ph: Re/Discover Cebu
https://mycebu.ph/article/lapulapu-resil-mojares/?fbclid=IwAR0l9xCeqEtUr0fmW6dx889JJDGjbuVdEvZHfMcwKvLE8N5M_2VDRfyDHfI

Intergenerational activism drives decades-long fight for Pilipino studies at UCLA
https://dailybruin.com/2020/10/23/intergenerational-activism-drives-decades-long-fight-for-pilipino-studies-at-ucla?fbclid=IwAR0PDtBnEMywAfFJSVBgKWgOKpyL9TubCeanP1kz2spIXmXLnjfybDj7-7k

Interview with Mark Dacascos
https://kungfukingdom.com/interview-with-mark-dacascos/?fbclid=IwAR33zI5E3FrOQJrfpunC8Pel_P7RPtUAwimoDRQkKI8hyv7lqb_P-SDhdPY

Why I Voted
https://www.facebook.com/groups/261018364108556/permalink/1479048568972190/

How California’s history was shaped by Larry Itliong and other Filipino Americans
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article246677347.html?fbclid=IwAR0wN1sJJb-szBTk7LFQRuVRlX43qOjhNM9hKRBrV4qBpi2ftLkt0I5NJDo

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