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Operation Sagip-Migrante

Tropical storm Sendong struck the Philippines on Friday [December 16] and brought with it death and destruction in the province of Misamis Oriental in the northern part of Mindanao. The typhoon [international name: Washi] brought heavy rains that triggered flashfloods and landslides leaving tens of thousands homeless.

Current reports from Citizens’ Disaster Response Center indicated that at least 957 were killed, and 42 others remain missing. Many of the victims were women and children who drowned when rivers swelled up in Cagayan De Oro City and Iligan City.

We call on your generosity and spirit of bayanihan to support OPERATION SAGIP MIGRANTE (Operation Migrante Relief) for the survivors of typhoon Sendong. This relief effort is organized by Migrante Canada and its chapters, in cooperation with Migrante International.

Operation Sagip-Migrante is now open for monetary donations. Support in kind is also welcome but goods from overseas involve shipping costs and may not arrive on time.

Donations in cash or cheques can be deposited to the MIGRANTE ONTARIO account. Please write “For Sagip Migrante” on the Memo line.

Migrante-Ontario Account # 0617-5260423
TD Canada Trust Branch 1968

Please ensure that complete mailing address of donor appears on the cheque.  For cash donations, email the list of names complete with mailing addresses and cash amounts to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

For more information, please contact Jonathan Canchela at 647-833-1023. Or call Migrante Canada hotline at 1-800-559-8092.

 For material donations, please send your boxed donations to:

Migrante International's Home Office
#45 Cambridge St, Cubao, Quezon CityEmail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Telefax: (02) 911-4910Hotline No.: (63921) 270-9079

 

Stop Wage Theft

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MIGRANTE BC YOUTH TAKES UP THE BRUSH

MIGRANTE BC YOUTH TAKES UP THE BRUSH

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Vancouver, BC.-- Migrante BC Youth launched its first collaborative mural project on YouTube using this link http://youtu.be/rOKMHUN0nRQ in its remembering of the International Day of the Child which happened in November. The project was generously supported by the Canadian Council for Refugees Youth Network.

Under the guidance and encouragement of Bert Monterona, a well-known visual artist and art educator from southern Philippines,  members of Migrante BC Youth took up the brush and produced their first collaborative art work. An earlier workshop which focused on Filipino youth in Canada became the sounding board for the images and ideas that would later see life on the canvas.

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On the Occasion of the International Day to End Impunity

On the Occasion of the International Day to End Impunity

Bayan Canada Statement
November 2011 - Canada

On November 23, 2011, it will have been two years since the massacre of 58 people including 32 journalists in the hands of the Ampatuan warlord clan, one year since the death of botanist Dr Leonard Co and his companions in the hands of the Philippine military, and one month since the murder of Italian priest and anti-mining activist, Fr. Fausto Tentorio and a farmer named Ramon Batoy. Fifty four political killings, eight enforced disappearances and a year and several months after President Aquino took power, what now comes to mind when we think of this administration? Why the creation of more paramilitary groups to protect foreign mining and the painfully slow progress in bringing to justice powerful elites like the Ampatuans and the Arroyos?

It becomes more crystal clear now that the Aquino administration is no different from the past regimes. Its policies mimic that of the past administrations, trying its best to sound original and yet managing to sound like a bad karaoke song, sung over and over again; the administration betray the same lack of political will to gain justice for the victims of human rights violations and their families and to punish the perpetrators, and this administration's state security forces continue in their attacks on unarmed civilians.

Aquino's solution to the growing unrest and popular opposition towards destructive foreign mining is to train, arm and deploy civilian militias to protect mining interests, including Canadian mining operations. This exposes how Aquino's concern for the safety and security of foreign interests override that of the safety and security of the Filipino people.

This subservient Am(erican)-boy and his government recently hosted US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and signed the Manila Declaration reaffirming the Mutual Defense Treaty (signed sixty years ago) as the “foundation for US-RP relations for the next 60 years and beyond." BAYAN Canada knows full well that the foundation of US-RP relations is one rooted in colonialism through bloody subjugation, repression and unequal treaties.  All previous, present and future national security plans (Oplan Batay Laya, Oplan Bayanihan, etc...) under a subservient Philippine state will only result in further human rights violations as the mercenary Philippine army does the bidding of US imperialism.

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