I was not shocked by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s transfer of the US soldier to the custody of the US embassy. The soldier was accused of raping a Filipina. The transfer only shows how she follows the dictates of the US inorder to get more help to prop up her illegitimate rule. Fascist as she is she condoned foreigners of raping our people. Too bad, this do not contradict her stand at all. Gloria since the onset of her rule has been a pimp to big corporations who have entered the country to rape our natural resources. All she wants is her cut, her money, her military aid and Bush pat at her back.

Yesterday, I joined distributing food for the homeless and poor in Solano country through the Solano mission. I helped packed paper bags full of groceries for distribution. I met a women in her 20’s who packed her things as she left the mission hall. My feelings was correct that she was a Filipina. I asked her why she stayed in the mission house for the homeless. She said, she was kicked out of her house and was a battered wife. Her two children are in custody and she had to undergo all the social service trainings. She has no house and no food to eat. My heart was like tearing off seeing Filipinos survive here in the US. She came from Nueva Viscaya, speaks Ilocano and worked in Manila before she met her wife battering white American husband. I gave her 4 paper bags full of grocery. Later 4 old Filipina also had filled in the tickets. Many where homeless. Now with my stay here in the US I am seeing in concrete the impact of globalization. How our Kababayans are driven to foreign land in order to find work, only to end up us homeless here. Being homeless here in the US is terrible. One can die because of the cold weather. This have further my resolved to help create a broad alliance of Filipinos working for their rights and welfare here in the US. Good, last January NAFCON had their conference in New York to further consolidate efforts along helping Filipinos. So much things are to be done along eco-political socio-cultural work.