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COLIMA: The Real Filipino Homeland in Mexico since the Spanish Era Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade

10 Million Filipinos will come to MEXICO at the aftermath of the Chinese Invasion of the Philippines.

3 Million Filipinos will settle in COLIMA alone while 7 Million Filipinos will settle at the Mexico's Pacific Coast like Sinaloa, Baja California Peninsula, Sonora, Nayarit, Tabasco, Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero and Oaxaca.

The Filipino Diaspora will also settle at the Yucatan Peninsula (Quintana Roo, Yucatan and Campeche) especially at Campeche, Chetumal, Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Merida, Isla Mujeres and Cozumel.

The Filipino Muslims (The Moros) from BARMM / Bangsamoro Region of Mindanao will settle in Chiapas.

The Filipinos will overrun Tijuana, Manzanillo, Esenada, San Quintin, Puerto Arista, Tabasco, Puerto Vallarta, Culiacan, Mazatlan, Colima, Los Mochis, Lazaro Cardenas, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Hermosillo, Culiacan, Chilpancingo, Tecate, Morella, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Iguala, Nogales, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Aguascallientes, Zacatecas, Tepic, Coatzacoalcos, Durango, Guadalajara, Salinas Cruz, Chihuahua, Torreon, Jimenes, Casas Grande, Juarez, Guaymas, Puerto Penasco, La Paz, Acapulco, Mexico City (Colonia Veronica Anzures, Miguel Hidalgo and Barrio San Juan), Puerto Madero, Loreto, Mexicali, Cabo San Lucas, Tehuantepec Isthmus and Tapachula.

In order to prevent any future Mexican Resistance, The Filipino Diaspora will relinquish the Eastern Half of Mexico along the Caribbean Coast (including the Eastern Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula) and GIVE IT to the Muslims from the Middle East and Africa (including Chechens, Bosniaks, Tuaregs, West Saharans, Uighurs, Balochs, Kurds, Pashtuns, Tatars, Dagestanis, Circasians and Rohingyas) via the Atlantic Ocean. The Muslims MUST CONVERT ALL the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico like the Nahua, Maya/Mayans (like the Yucatec, Lacandon, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Chol, Tojolabal, Chuj, Kanjobal, Huastec, Chontal, and Mocho), Purepecha, Tarahumara, Mixe, Mixtec, Totonac, Zapotec and etc to Islam within "5 YEARS'

Mexico City (or DFMX / CDMX) will be PARTITIONED too by the Filipinos in the West and the Muslims in the East using the Palace of Moctezuma (Presidential Palace) and the Aztec Temple (The Mexico Cathedral) as Border Lines.

This Partition arrangement will be also implemented across Latin America and Carribean between the Filipino Diaspora from the West (Pacific Coast) and the Muslims from the East (Atlantic Coast) use the Altiplanos, Central Mountain Ranges (like the Sierra Madres, Cordilleras and the Andes Mountains), the Pampas, Patagonia, Pantanals and the Jungles (like the Guyana Highlands, Essequibo and Amazon) as DEMARCATION LINES of CONTROL.

JUSTIFICATION: Mexico is now ruled by a JEW (Dugyot)!!! The Jews are SOURCE of ALL WORLD'S PROBLEMS...

The 7 Million Filipinos in Mexico MUST OCCUPY the Baja California Peninsula, Tehuantepec Isthmus, Guerrero Gap, Tierra Caliente, Sierra Madre Occidental, Chiapas Jungle and Sierra Madre del Sur.

The 120 Million Filipino Diaspora will create the "Bagong Pilipinas and the "Filipinas Ultramar" with 100 New Filipino Succesor States (BALWARTES) across the Pacific Coast of Mexico and Latin America with Yaviza in the Darien Gap as the "New Filipino Capital City" in Latin America WHILE the Muslims will build the New Khilafah / Ummah (Islamic State / Islamic Caliphate) across the Atlantic Coast of Mexico, Latin America and Caribbean.

The Baja California Peninsula, Tijuana, Tapachula, Juarez, Colima, Culiacan, Mazatlan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Acapulco, Guadalajara, Los Mochis, Hermosillo, Nogales, Torreon, Chichuahua, Zacatecas, Durango, Guanajuato, Morelia, Tepic, Iguala, Chilpancingo, Queretaro, Toluca, Cuernavaca, Puebla, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Aguascalientes, the Pacific Coast and the Tehuantepec Isthmus "WILL BE SOLELY FILIPINO TERRITORIES".

Mexico, Latin America and Caribbean will erupt into TRANSCONTINENTAL "LATIN AMERICAN" CIVIL WARS that will last for Many Decades at the Wake of the Arrival of 120 Million Filipino Settlers and Millions of Muslims (300 Million Muslims).

For Fil-Ams and other people of color, the "American Dream" often means toiling away just to obtain a small piece of the spoils that were violently ripped away from your community.

Second-gen Asian Americans like me grow up oblivious about our own histories because the U.S. education system purposely withholds information about it, and our parents try to outrun their trauma by never sharing their experiences, instead pushing their children toward an assimilation sleepwalk.

AsAms realize too late we've inherited a deal with the devil we never agreed to: we can keep our language, but only if we speak it privately. Our food, if we serve it. Our culture, if it upholds the illusion of America as a benevolent melting pot that saved us from ourselves.

But AsAms aren't the only ones ignorant of this history. Few Americans know of the Philippine-American War and the atrocities the US committed. Even fewer understand how the U.S.’s ongoing legacy of war, destruction, and colonization in Asia is a major reason the AsAm diaspora exists.

Americans aren't taught about how centuries of exploitation of the Philippines' resources by Western powers has led to most of its workforce immigrating and becoming a global servant class called Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). Instead, they're taught that poverty is inherent to Filipinx culture.

Americans aren't taught about how the US installs and props up puppet leaders and dictators—like how Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan fully backed Marcos as he ruled under martial law and committed human rights violations. Instead, they're taught corruption is inherent to Filipinx culture.

Americans aren't taught that colonization is bipartisan and Trump and Biden agree on their view of the Philippines: a de facto colony whose resources and bodies can be exploited with impunity for the US war machine. Instead, they're taught servitude is inherent to Filipinx culture.

Americans aren't taught about one-sided US military agreements used to keep an imperialist foothold: the Mutual Defense Treaty, Mutual Logistics Support Agreement, Visiting Forces Agreement & Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. Instead, they're told it's for mutual benefit.

American's aren't taught about how many AsAms struggle with poverty, institutional racism, and violence. Instead, they're taught the Model Minority Myth—created by white people and propagated by all races—that says Asians don't suffer race-based oppression.

Americans aren't taught about how Fil-Ams give earnings to family, live in multi-generational households to pool money together, and how the Philippines' economy would collapse without OFW remittances. Instead, they're taught Fil-Ams have a high median household income amongst AsAms.

Americans aren't taught about how AsAm leaders are installed with white backing the same way puppet leaders are, and use their shared race to hurt their own and prevent true progress. Instead, they're taught that privileged, out-of-touch blue-checks are the voice of our community.

So if Americans aren't taught any of this, who will teach them? The ugly truth is that AsAms who try to speak up are often crushed into silence by non-Asians who benefit from the status quo, and by Asian puppet leaders who've been installed to protect their masters' interests.

Overall, being Filipinx and Asian means constantly navigating survival between rotating oppressors.

As an ex-Navy brat who grew up overseas, I've struggled with my concept of home and at one point believed "home" was a US military base. But maybe that's as Fil-Am as it gets.

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600,000 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) More Repatriated in 12 Months

The Philippines government has repatriated over 600,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) displaced by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic since May 2020. There are also between 70,000 to 130,000 more OFWs expected to return, aside from those who regularly go home to take their vacations. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac reported on Monday…

I practically spent half of my life watching the shows on this network. If ABS-CBN shutdowns, how will I get my news on what’s happening in the country? How can I watch dramas to show my love and support to my favorite actors/actresses if ABS-CBN shuts down? 

Without ABS-CBN, I would’ve have known how beautiful the Philippines is and how rich in culture the country is.

As a Filipino who lives outside of the Philippines, ABS-CBN is my ONE connection to my home country. Although I wasn’t born in the country. Although I wasn’t raised in the Philippines, ABS-CBN helped me rebuild that connection, that bridge, to my home country, that I never really had as a child. 

I’m glad to have spent a HUGE portion of my life getting to learn about my home country better through ABS-CBN. HOWEVER, I’m not going to let some stupid government get away with taking that bridge, that connection, from us, outside Filipinos who have no other way of knowing what’s going on in the Philippines. ABS-CBN made Filipinos (as well as some non-Filipinos) around the world a family and the Philippines government can never break up this family because of “an alleged violation.” This message is a big 🖕🏾for messing with my family! 😡

a Lady

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History has shown Filipinx are valued for our labor, not our voices. But the only thing more consistent than our exploitation and oppression is our resilience in the face of it. #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth

There are many horror stories about Filipinx being mistreated. Whether working in our home countries or as Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), we're treated as a servant class no matter where we are—suffering long hours, low wages and benefits, and intentionally dehumanizing treatment.

For example, in 2019, a Filipina maid in Saudi Arabia was tied to a tree as "punishment" by her employers. An animator in the Philippines was fired for demanding a full-time salary for his full-time work. Filipina nurses who tried to quit an abusive New York nursing home got stuck in indentured servitude. Out of 66 US allies in WWII, only Filipino vets were denied payment and benefits that the US promised. Call center employees working as outsourced low-wage labor for US corps who've earned promotions and higher pay are given unrealistic quotas to get them fired. The list goes on.

I even experienced this myself in May, when I lost my publisher of 10+ years for—ironically—talking about the racism and oppression Filipinx and other Asians face. They were happy to publish my stories centering non-Filipinx, but not when I decided to center myself and other Fil-Ams.

In my industry (comics), the exploitation of Filipinx is a well-kept secret. In a recently released video by DC Comics—which was meant to highlight Filipinx creators—they inadvertently admit to hiring Filipinx only to circumvent paying striking American creators better wages.

But Filipinx don't stay silent, we fight back. From legendary Lapu-Lapu, Gabriela Silang, and the Katipunan—who resisted Spanish colonization and fought for independence—to Fil-Am labor leader Larry Itliong, Filipinx have a long tradition of organizing protests and revolutions.

Yet when we do speak up, our contributions can still be erased—sometimes by other POC. Itliong spearheaded a highly effective labor movement in the 30s and 40s when he organized the Delano grape strike and unionized laborers, but his work is often credited solely to César Chávez. A search for Itliong's name will result in articles and books that always acknowledge his collaboration with Chávez. But if you search for Chávez’s name, Itliong is rarely mentioned. This erasure hurts even more so because the whole movement was about solidarity between Mexican-Americans and Fil-Ams.

What this means is Filipinx are seen as exploitable labor by pretty much everyone: whites, other POC, even our own. That's why a major part of the Philippines' economy relies on remittances from OFWs sending their earnings home—one of the country's biggest exports is people.

So on this last day of #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, let's all commit to fighting racial and class injustice, uplifting Fil-Am and Filipinx voices, and recognizing Filipinx contributions all year-round.

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