INSIDE THE POST Volume 2 Number 7 LOS ANGELES OCTOBER 27, 2018 YOYOURUR WINDOW WINDOW TO TO THE THE FI FILIPINO-AMERICANLIPINO-AMERICAN COMMUNCOMMUNITYITY Santarina tells Fil-Ams: Trump fan charged over Vote to preserve gains mail bombs CARSON – Councilmember By Val G. Abelgas with the recognition by the Lito Santarina called on Filipino- city of their important role NEWS, Page 6 American voters to get out and solid track record in his 15 years in the economic, cultural and vote in the coming November 6 as a councilmember that benefitted social development of the city. elections to preserve the gains both the Filipinos and other He cited as examples the the Filipino community has residents of the Southbay city. celebration of the Philippine achieved in the City of Carson. “I’m calling on my fellow Independence Day every June 12, Santarina, who is seeking Filipinos to exercise their right to the placing of the life-sized statue his fifth term in the council, vote to ensure that the gains that we of the Philippine national hero Dr. stressed that Filipinos have gained have achieved for the community Jose P. Rizal in front of City Hall significant strides in the last two will not only be preserved but and the declaration of December Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV decades in Carson, one of the most enhanced further,” Santarina said. 30 as Dr. Jose P. Rizal Day in the diversified cities in the country. Santarina said that Filipinos city to commemorate the hero’s Santarina is banking on his have gained respect and pride (See SANTARINA, Page 11) Court rules Trillanes Khashoggi slay Leaders warn worst cover-up of Historic amnesty in history - Trump Filipinotown still valid US & WORLD, Page 13 gentrification MANILA — Presidential Proclamation 572 does not revoke LOS ANGELES — New the amnesty given to Sen. Antonio projects, along with market-rate Trillanes IV by former president multifamily buildings that began Benigno Aquino III, the Makati springing up shortly after the City Regional Trial Court (RTC) recession are attracting a new Branch 148 ruled on Monday. crowd and displacing longtime “Proclamation 572 does not residents in Historic Filipinotown, deprive Trillanes of a lawful community activists warned. protection from a previous They see the gentrification proclamation of amnesty because of Koreatown in the past 15 (it) does not operate to revoke GROUNDBREAKING. Top officials of the City of Carson led Proclamation 75 (given by years as an omen of what’s to the groundbreaking ceremony for the Carson International Food come as downtown Los Angeles Aquino),” read a part of the 33- Fil-Am bet in Court last Oct. 16 at Carson St. and Wilmington Ave. From left: page ruling issued by RTC Judge experiences a resurgence Councilmember Lito Santarina, Planning Commission Chair Mona Texas: Brown of development. Historic Andres Bartolome Soriano. Pimentel, Mayor Albert Robles and Environment Commissioner He stressed that “the wording face in blue wave Filipinotown, Silver Lake, Echo Rudolfo “Val” Brillantes. Park and Boyle Heights, are of the Proclamation does not inflict COMMUNITY, Page 3 seen as the next hot spots for punishment without judicial trial a new wave of projects and Fil-Am bet vows to work since the Department of Justice redevelopment, according to a (DOJ) was precisely directed to report in Bisnow.com. for clean, affordable water pursue previous cases filed against From the 1940s to 1970s, many By Val G. Abelgas Trillanes.” Filipinos bought homes and set up Aquino in January 2011 CARSON – A Filipino- elected, he would work to provide businesses in the Temple Street- granted amnesty to Trillanes and American environmental clean, affordable water at a fair Beudry Avenue neighborhood other soldiers who participated in commissioner of Carson has price. He said he would oppose and Temple Street and Beverly the following uprisings: the July vowed to work hard to stop the the proposed desalination plant, Boulevard area, which became 2003 Oakwood mutiny for which continuing increase in water bills which, he said, would be built at home to some of the oldest Filipino Trillanes faced a coup d’etat case in the Southbay area that has astronomical cost, adding that the American organizations, churches before the Makati RTC Branch resulted in a 100-percent increase plan lacked scientific research on and Filipino-run businesses. 148; February 2006 Marine UP prof wins over four years. its effects to the community and The average rent for an standoff; and November 2007 Rudolfo “Val” Brillantes, who to the environment. Asean-US apartment in the Westlake siege at The Peninsula Manila for is running for a seat in the board He said the water board’s science prize neighborhood that includes which Trillanes is slapped with a of directors of the West Basin policies and actions should Historic Filipinotown is nearly rebellion case before the Makati PROUDLY PINOY, P. 12 Municipal Water District Division consider inputs from the RTC Branch 150. (See FILIPINOTOWN, Page 6) 1 in the Nov. 6 elections, said if (See BRILLANTES, Page 7) (See TRILLANES, Page 6) Vote in elections to be empowered Page 13 VIEWS, Page 4 Pipe bombs sent to Obama, Trump critics Page 2 PHILIPPINE POST October 27, 2018 October 27, 2018 PHILIPPINE POST Page 3 Fil-Am Gina Ortiz-Jones: A brown face in a blue wave By Luis H. Francia health care of our people. It cannot Inquirer.net be profit.” On immigration, she opposes NEW YORK—If she the construction of the border wins against the Republican wall, decrying the estimated $25 incumbent Will Hurd in Texas’ billion cost as a waste. 23rdcongressional district, Gina “The wall will not solve Ortiz-Jones will be the first the problem that they think it congressperson of Philippine would solve.” She enumerates descent. In addition, she will not the different largely Hispanic only be the first woman but also communities with ties on both the first Iraq War veteran, and the sides of the border. She describes first openly gay woman of color “these ties are sources of strength, to represent that district. not something to be divided.” Her mother Victorina Ortiz She does not however favor embodies the American Dream. the abolition of ICE (Immigration Hailing from the northern Filipino American Democratic and Customs Enforcement). Its Luzon province of Pangasinan candidate for U.S. Congress publicized problems are a result, and a graduate of the state-run Gina Ortiz-Jones. she believes, of lack of effective University of the Philippines at oversight. She has visited Diliman (the flagship campus of way.”She returned to San Antonio detention centers in El Paso, the state university), she came to run for Congress,living in the where women who crossed the The statue in San Francisco’s Union Square honoring Dewey’s over and found work initially as house where she grew up. border without proper papers are victory over the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay in 1898. a domestic helper. Now a high Ortiz-Jones is part of a blue being held. school teacher, she raised Gina wave of young progressive “This district is on the and a younger daughter on her women, all Democrats, who aim frontlines of this debate literally SF agrees to change own. to upend the Trumpian status quo, and figuratively. We need to have Ortiz-Jones has quite following in the lead of Alexandra a policy that reflects our values,” Dewey plaque to include an impressive resume. Upon Ocasio-Cortez, the Latina who by which she clearly means a more graduating from high school, defeated the veteran Queens humane approach that recognizes PH-American war on an ROTC scholarship, she legislator Joseph Crowley in the the humanity of those seeking a SAN FRANCISCO — Dewey’s decisive defeat of the earned a college degree and went primary and is heavily favored to better life. On the campaign trail, After nearly half a century of archipelago’s Spanish fleet in May on to join the US Air Force as an win against the Republican she talks of her own story and of persistent efforts by well-meaning 1, 1898 Battle of Manila Bay. intelligence officer. candidate in a predominantly her mother’s—the quintessential Filipino Americans to correct “Within a month of that naval After three years in the Democratic district. immigrant saga. the Union Square monument victory, the Philippines declared service, including deployment At a fundraiser held recently With another hot-button issue, plaque honoring Commodore its freedom from Spain, marking to Iraq during the George W. at a posh Fifth Avenue apartment, that of gun control, she favors George Dewey’s 1898 naval June 12, 1898 as Philippine Bush administration, attaining Ms. Ortiz-Jones sat down for universal background checks victory in Manila Bay, the city Independence Day. Filipinos took the rank of captain, in 2006 she a brief interview with a few and a ban on the sale of assault finally approved the posting of a the historic occasion to declare returned to Texas, working in journalists, all from the New York rifles. She cites her own training corrective text. their national sovereignty and private industry and caring for Philippine community. Here are in the air force, in intelligence, in The revision clarifies that to establish the first republic of her mother, who had cancer but some of her answers to questions Iraq, as necessary in the handling Filipinos had already risen up for record in Southeast Asia. eventually recovered. asked. of military-grade weaponry such their independence from Spain “The Spanish American War She then was employed as an She prefaced her replies by as the assault rifle. She has seen and that Filipino revolutionaries ended with the Treaty of Paris in intelligence analyst by the U.S.