Fil Am News

FIL AM TO GET 51-YEAR SENTENCE FOR SEX ASSAULT
WAS AN IT PROFESSIONAL MAKING $100K A YEAR
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) – Filipino American Noel F. Buhay, already serving a 45-year sentence, is facing his second lengthy prison when he was found guilty Tuesday for predatory criminal sexual

FIL AM WOMAN IRAQ VET TAKES A CRACK AT U.S. CONGRESS
CAN BECOME THE FIRST FIL AM WOMAN IN U.S. CONGRESS!
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks)
“The toughest fights are what you run towards, not away from.”
– Gina Ortiz Jones
CHICAGO (JGL) – A Filipino American woman Iraq war vetera...

RELATIVES OF WRONG-WAY DRIVER VICTIMS ASK: "WHY NO ARREST?"
HORRIFIC ACCIDENT WILL BE 4 MONTHS OLD ON NOV. 6!
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) – A United States registered nurse who returned to the Philippines to take care of his aging parents rushed back to Teaneck, New

FIL CONGRESSMAN DUE IN SANFO & CHICAGO NOV. 4th & 5TH
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AT PAEC MONDAY FROM 4:30 TO 8:30 P.M.
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) – Filipino opposition leader Gary C. Alejano is due to speak in Chicago, Illinois on Monday Nov. 5th from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Philippine Ameri...

ACTIVISTS UNVEIL LINE DANCE, SONG “SEPTEMBER” AT ANTI-MARTIAL LAW RALLY
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GABRIELA MEMBER RE-WORDS “SEPTEMBER” LYRICS
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) – Human rights activists in the Philippines and elsewhere usually open and/or end their mass action by singing a chorus of “Ang

FIL AM COMMUNITY & VETS GROUPS TO OBSERVE BALANGIGA CONFLICT ON SEPT. 29
STALEMATE OF RETURN OF BALANGIGA BELLS TIED TO HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN PH
The Filipino American Community and Veterans area organizations are marking the 117th Remembrance of the Conflict in the town of

DRUNKEN SOLDIER LOBS GRENADE AT CHILDREN DURING MARTIAL LAW
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"NO TO U.S. MILITARY AID TO THE PHILIPPINES!"
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) – A daughter of Mindanao was nine years old when martial law was declared by President Marcos 46 years ago but she still

FIL AM AIDE RECALLS MOMENTS WITH SEN. McCAIN's DAD
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) — When then Navy Captain John Sidney McCain III’s plane was shot down during the Vietnam War, McCain’s father, Adm. John S. McCain, Jr. told his aide, Filipino American Ricardo Javier Sanvictores,
he “didn’t know if his son was d...