Category Archives: Filipino
Emil Guillermo: After the rage, there should be no debate; Gun violence, mass killings have become like “Groundhog Day” in our country, a wicked cliché and a perversion of American freedom. What are we going to do?
I’ve written so much about gun violence in the last year alone, the broken record has become like the movie, “Groundhog Day.”
You think the president is tired of it?
People who have had a bullet shatter their lives with the loss of a loved one know all too well.
And the best NRA supporters can say is “gun up.” This isn’t a matter of self-defense. This is about public policy now. Guns, and more guns, is like adding one too many jalapeno into the pot. We don’t need more.
Enough is enough.
My cousin Stephen was just a single death. But it doesn’t matter. They all add up. They all didn’t have to happen. And they only happened because laws enabled shooters to become killers.
The 2nd Amendment shouldn’t be open season on Americans.
Emil Guillermo: L’Amande Bakery case–Filipino workers’ claims jump to more than $15 million.
The case involving Analiza Moitinho de Almeida, her husband Goncalo, and her powerful father Juan B. Santos, the head of the Social Security System in the Philippines got more interesting late last week.
The court docs were filed last Friday in Los Angeles that ups the total damages and costs sought by workers to $15.2 million.
The court is presuming the bakery owner defendants, the Almeidas, have fled the country. As a consequence, the court directed the plaintiffs to file for a default judgment.
Sources tell me that Almeidas have completed the sale of their home in L.A. worth more than a million dollars this month.
Are they hiding assets? The Almeidas say no.
It’s unclear, however, if the profits are totally out of reach of the court if a judgment is awarded to the 11 former employees suing the Almeidas
My story here in the Philippines’ top daily.
Emil Guillermo: Pope Francis will see how Asian American his U.S. flock has become
Alighting from his papel plane, Pope Francis gets a little wind in his face. But it shouldn’t stop him from seeing just how Asian American his U.S. flock has become.
Filipinos at 2.2 million are the largest Asian American group of U.S. Catholics. But the smaller groups like the Burmese Americans, a growing refugee community are growing throughout the U.S.
The pope was smiling when he saw the president at Andrews Air Force Base. No doubt the Iran deal that the pope helped broker will come up. But as the pope mixes with the politicos, I think his June encyclical on global warming and the call for a new politics that protects what he calls “our common home,” will make it into his comments before Congress and the U.N.
As for tonight, he gets to rest. Maybe he’ll watch the season 2 premier of “Fresh Off the Boat”?
