EVENT: A Canada-wide gathering of Filipino migrant workers

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MIGRANTENG PINOY: MURA NA, PANG-EXPORT PA!
Our History, Situation and Resistance

A Canada-wide gathering of Filipino migrant workers

The country's “greatest export.” “Global investors.” This is how Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo refers to overseas Filipino workers as she aims to export at least 1 million Filipinos per year. Filipinos in Canada are part of the over 8 million Filipinos living and working outside the Philippines. With 10% of its people staying or working abroad, the Philippines has been described as one of the largest migrant nations in the world whose nationals overseas annually remit around 8 billion US dollars to the Philippines, thus propping up an ailing economy.

For several decades now, Filipino activist and workers’ organizations in Canada have been educating and organizing their co-workers and other compatriots to struggle for their rights and welfare. They continue to campaign for support, and participate in the struggle for a just and lasting peace in the Philippines.

On October 23 these migrant workers and activists from across Canada and the Philippines will get together in an event dubbed Our History, Situation and Resistance: A Canada-wide Gathering of Filipino Migrant Workers. They will share and reflect on their experiences to better understand their situation as well as the economic and political conditions in Canada and in the Philippines that structures the import and export of Filipino labour.

This historic undertaking is hosted by SIKLAB-Ontario and nationally-coordinated by the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC). It will be held at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto.

To register please contact:
Yolyn Valenzuela
(416) 878-8772
siklab_ontario@yahoo.ca

$10.00 Registration fee
(includes resource materials & food)