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California:. Larry Itliong, arriving at AWOC meeting in Central Valley, sitting in a car with the door open, smoking a cigar. Early 1960’s. ©1976 George Ballis/Take Stock / The Image Works “The Image Works” ( photo courtesy of On October 22, the City of Carson and various organizations will join the entire community in honoring the life’s work and legacy of Larry Itliong – a Filipino-American labor leader and organizer. A tribute march will start at 9 a.m. on October 22 around the vicinity of Veterans Park located at 22400 Moneta Avenue in Carson followed by a labor awards ceremony. This year’s Larry Itliong Labor Awardees are Tony Doroño, co-founder of the Filipino Migrant Center, and the  UCLA Labor Center, home of the national immigrant youth movement. Entertainment is led by saxophonist, composer, and arranger, Michael “Cody” Dear from UCLA.  The event is free and open to the public.  Larry Itliong was responsible for organizing immigrant farm workers and cannery workers for over 30 years.  He helped establish the Alaska Cannery Workers Union in the 1930s and helped get a contract that called for eight-hour days with overtime pay. In 1965, Larry Itliong led the successful “Great Delano Grape Strike” to protest the low wages and miserable working conditions.  In 1966, he led the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and merged with the National Farm Workers Association led by Cesar Chavez to form the United Farm Workers union. In 1970, Larry Itliong founded and became the president of the Filipino American Read More …

http://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/ Los Angeles  2016 —- Twenty films submitted to represent their countries in the Motion Picture Academy’s Foreign Language Film category will be among the 34 motion pictures at the 2nd Annual Asian World Film Festival which runs from October 24 to November 1 at the ArcLight Theater in Culver City. In association with CJ Entertainment, this year’s festival will include a special screening track “Korean Film Days,” featuring five films from South Korea, including the Oscar® contender The Age of Shadows. The closing night film will be South Korea’s Operation Chromite. Keon-Seop Park, a visionary producer who opened the door to the New Korean Cinema in the ‘90s, will be honored on that night with the Cinematic Legacy Achievement Award. The three other films screening as part of CJ Entertainment’s Korea Film Days are Asura, The World of Us and The Map Against the World. All five films were released in 2016. The other Oscar contenders are Armenia’s Earthquake, Bangladesh’s The Unnamed, India’s Interrogation, Iraq’s El Clasico, Japan’s Nagasaki Memories of my Son, Jordan’s 3000 Nights, Kazakhstan’s Amanat, Kyrgyzstan’s A Father’s Will, Lebanon’s Very Big Shot, Malaysia’s Redha, Nepal’s The Black Hen, Palestine’sThe Idol, Pakistan’s Mah e Mir, Russia’s Paradise, Singapore’s Apprentice, Taiwan’s Hang In There, Kids!, Thailand’s Karma, Turkey’s Cold of Kalandar andYellow Flowers on the Green Grass from Vietnam. The AWFF is generously sponsored by Aitysh Film, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, Etihad Airways, Variety, Sony Entertainment Television – Asia, The Los Angeles Film School, Consulate General of Lebanon Read More …

Philippine National Police Chief General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa (center) and other police officials salute as they wear local Igorot tribe headdress while singing the national anthem during a visit at the PNP Camp Dangwa in Benguet in this picture taken last Saturday. .(MNS photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) — Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said Monday he will join President Rodrigo Duterte on his state visit to China. “He (Duterte) asked me to be there also. Mauna ako sa kanya. Nasa Brunei pa siya, hindi ba? Mauna ako. Baka mamaya nandun na ako,” Dela Rosa said with a laugh. The PNP chief, however, refused to say what his agenda is in joining the visit. “Hindi (ko masasabi). Mga classified ‘yun. Pagdating namin, pag-usapan namin. Tingnan ko kung ano ang pwede kong i-share sa inyo. Pero all others hindi muna siguro. Depende,” he said when asked about the matter during a press conference. He joked that China police might identify the drug lords there. “Baka identify na ng China police ‘yung mga drug lord doon at pagdating ko doon meron ng boxing ring at magsuntukan na lang kami doon,” he said joking. Dela Rosa earlier said that most of the illegal drugs and raw materials used for the manufacture of the illegal drugs are from China. In July, China said it is willing to cooperate with the Philippines in its campaign against illegal drugs. Also in July, Duterte himself said he will raise the issue of illegal drugs Read More …