#magkaisa

[marcosisanabsolutepig-blog]

Magkaisa MV by Group 4

[angelhandstattoo]

I know I look white, but here’s my Filipino card 🇵🇭 #magkaisa #filipino #filipina #pinay #pinoy #mestiza #halfbreed #borninthephilippines #panelist #pinaytattooer #filipinatattooer #filipinotattooartist (at Olympian High School)

[angelhandstattoo]

On Saturday 10•15 I had the honor of returning to the Magkaisa Conference (after a three year pause) for the 20th anniversary event, to give two career presentations about my 22 years as a working tattoo artist. I love giving these talks, and I have done them many times over the years. I especially love doing the Magkaisa (“unity”) conference because it gives me tremendous pride to connect with other Filipinos in the community who are making a difference for young Filipino students who are simultaneously navigating two different cultures in a changing society. I love being an example of a viable “unconventional” career, which, if you know Filipinos, isn’t generally encouraged (shout out to all the nurses!! 🤍)-I was lucky that my parents recognized my abilities and encouraged me, and it means a lot to be able to pay it forward a bit by encouraging these young’uns 🥰 I’m also so proud of my peers who organized and contributed to Magkaisa, especially my amazing former Chula Vista High classmates-turned-educators @ricardo.cooke @amamasuy and @dr.josafat - this is some deep cultural circle of life stuff and I’m all about it. MABUHAY!! 🇵🇭♥️☀️ . . @joatwood @pcarh13 #magkaisa #magkaisaconference #magkaisaconference2022 #filipino #filipina #filipinoheritagemonth #filipinotattooartist #filipinatattooartist #philippines #filipinoculture #community #chulavista #filipinoartist #filipinoeducators #pinoy #pinay (at Otay Ranch High School) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj3lo9XyeH9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[muni-ni-arci]

Magkaisa • Virna Lisa

The year was 1986, Ferdinand Marcos has been in Malacañan for 20 years and public unrest has been brewing because of the injustice of the Marcos Regime. Marcos called for a snap election on the 20th of February, rigging the election to proclaim him victor. The People have had enough.

Recorded on the 1st of March 1986 by Virna Lisa and composed by Tito Sotto, Homer Flores, and Ernie dela Peña, Magkaisa is considered the anthem of the People Power Revolution. A call to unity, the words of the song plead with the Filipino People to unite, in Filipino, magkaisa. In an interview with CNN, Virna Lisa, said that Tito Sotto specifically chose an unknown artist to sing the song because he wanted the message and not the artist to be highlighted. Magkaisa became the anthem of an oppressed people, a tired people, a revolutionary people.

With its timeless lyrics, the song has retained its importance and popularity, harkening to the days of the Marcos Dictatorship and speaking of the sense of nationalism that the song has fostered from then until today.

The song proved fruitful. When Cardinal Sin uttered his famous call from the Catholic radio station, Radyo Veritas, the people gathered at EDSA to protect the defectors from the forces of the military, then still loyal to Marcos, which wanted to arrest, and eventually, kill them. Soon after the gathering of people, the military stood down against Marcos. The Marcoses fled to Hawaii to escape from the wrath of the Filipino People, and Corazon Cojuangco Aquino took office as the democratically elected president of the Philippine Republic.

It cannot be denied that the Philippines Post-EDSA was not what EDSA promised it to be; there were misgivings, failures in governance, coups d’etat, and massacres as early as the presidency of Cory Aquino herself. Nevertheless, the promise of EDSA was realised: a free people, a government for the people, a country where the people’s will is honoured, heard, and given due attention. EDSA was not perfect, but its existence was a stepping-stong, it was necessary for the Filipino People to start to grow, to heal, and to right the wrongs of the past. The process of healing continuous today, as the Philippines attempts to grapple with its dark past, and reel from the desolation it has wrought on its people.

Certainly, this song proves the Aristotelian opinion on the importance and potency of art: it directs the emotions of the people, giving them an avenue to release their pangs and reorient themselves. Music became a potent symbol, a unifying factor which stirred the emotions of the people of 1986 to assert themselves, to fight for their country. Magkaisa is a testament to the power that only art could perform: the unification of a people and a bloodless revolution.

#NeverAgain

#NeverForget

[ronnieliang]

Relief Operations for the typhoon Rolly victims in Guinobatan Albay Bicol with Sylpauljoyce Furniture Lights & Decor! 🇵🇭 (Swipe left ⬅️for more videos) #magkaisa #samasama #tulongtulong #ParaSaBayan @sylpauljoycefurniture (at Guinobatan, Albay, Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHysRTMlYrj/?igshid=aed4g22b5xk4

[itsforyoutofindoutbaby]

COVID-19

I think it’s started on early this year 2020

January yeah. 

Covid-19 is a virus that already affects thousand of people now worlwide.

I’m not scared but I begin to be more cautious on how I and my family will deal with it. Which is to always be healthy, our hygiene should be our priority. Be aware on our sorroundings.. always wear mask.

What I’m scared of is for other people who do not have a home. Because mas madali sila mahahawa neto. Specially if they are not equipped or not aware how it is spread and what’s the virus and what are the symptoms since they do not have a tv.

Actually, kagabi lang before going to work while I’m in the tricycle I saw an elderly man na nangangalakal ng basura without gloves or anything. I got teary eyed when I saw that. :(

But despite of everything that is happening, I put my trust and faith to Jesus, our God, who is in control. Who is our healer. Who is the one that can make the IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE.

We can make this together.

Let’s all pray for the whole nation.

For the healthworkers.

For the people who are already affected to be healed.

For a vaccine to be invented.

For no more people to be infected.

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[anakbayanlb]

Today’s the big day! @filipinomigrantcenter’s 8th annual gala! Hope to see you there! If you are interested in giving a donation please visit filipinomigrantcenter.org #magkapitbisig #magkaisa #linkarmsunite (at Long Beach, California)

[angelhandstattoo]

It was a mini Chula Vista High School c/o ‘91 reunion today at the Magkaisa Filipino American Student and Parent Conference! It was great to see Jason, Marie (our valedictorian), and Arlene; and celebrate our Filipino heritage with the future Filipino leaders of tomorrow 🇵🇭 @joatwood @drjmjfat @amamasuy #magkaisa #cvhs #filipino #filipina #pinoy #pinay #cvhsalumni #chulavista #sandiego #joatwoodtattoos #angelhandstattoo #tattooer #ladytattooers #panelist #professional #halfbreed #mestiza #yesimfilipino (at Olympian High School)