A panel on the 2022 Philippine Elections, focusing on the concerns of Filipinx overseas and the suppression of the history of dictatorship

Sunday, May 1, 2022
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom
Registration Required

Speakers:

• Myrla Baldonado, Pilipino Workers Center (Los Angeles)
• Riya Ortiz, Damayan (New York)
• Josen Diaz (University of San Diego)
• Mark Sanchez (Vanderbilt University)

This panel engages with critical issues surrounding the upcoming presidential elections in the Philippines. With elections scheduled on May 6, among the utmost concerns to Filipinos in the Philippines and overseas include access to voting and the suppression of the history of dictatorship. This session seeks to highlight the impact and stakes of historical distortion and voter disenfranchisement of Filipinos overseas in this year’s voting process.

Speakers in this panel will also draw out the implications of presidential responses to Covid-19 on Asian and Filipino workers (anti-Asian hate), more generally, as a way to think about the implications of presidential elections on Filipinx migrant workers specifically. How have U.S. and Philippine government responses to COVID compounded the effects of the pandemic and impacted Asian and Filipino workers? How does an understanding of the history of dictatorship shed light on the conditions of overseas Filipinos?

With the detrimental effects of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, such as job loss, members of this panel will also discuss how Filipino people across the globe have persisted in their efforts to support each other collectively.

Event Partners: Pilipino Workers Center, Damayan

Event Supporters: Barnard College, Columbia University Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, and UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.