(Filipino Youth Social Justice Community Forum: Filipino Youth Fighting for Education at Long Beach City College (LAC Campus) on April 21, 2018. Photo: Crystal Niebla)
Filipino Youth Social Justice Community Forum: Filipino Youth Fighting for Education at Long Beach City College (LAC Campus) on April 21, 2018. Photo: Crystal Niebla
As part of a leadership training program, Filipino student activists drew distressing ties between policies here in the United States and those unfolding in the Philippines where a violent crackdown on drug crimes have led to thousands of arrests and deaths at the hands of that country’s police.
Long Beach Voicewaves reporter Crystal Niebla heard their call to action at the first Filipino youth social justice forum in Long Beach this April, and filed the following audio story, the transcript for which can be found at our partner’s site.
https://soundcloud.com/voicewaves/rapping-filipino-youth-demand-funding-education-over-militarization