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Revision as of 06:00, 15 June 2011
Template:TOCnestleft FiRE aka: Filipinas Rights and Empowerment is a leftist women’s organization serving New York City and its surrounding areas.
Dedicated to global and local Filipina and Filipina American issues. Fire promotes the idea that class oppression is inextricable to the struggle of women; therefore they support and create women’s initiatives by building alliances and mobilizing Filipino immigrant and native-born community through leftist indoctrination.
FiRE has a leftist anti-imperialist philosophy and works in solidarity with the National Democratic movement of the Philippines. FiRE creates discontent in the Filipino diaspora by organizing across class, gender, sexual identity, and age lines. Bringing woman-born and woman-identified people together, FiRE challenges norms and creates ill will by creating self-defined Filipina identities.
Filipinas Join Thousands in New York Protesting Wars Around the World on April 14, 2011
From the FiRE press Release:
- Filipinas Join Thousands in New York Protesting Wars Around the World
- Posted by h! on April 14, 2011
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- Filipinas Join Thousands in New York Protesting Wars Around the World
- Reference: Irma Salvatierra Bajar, Chairperson, Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment Email: fire.nyc@gmail.com
- New York City – On Saturday, April 9, thousands of anti-war protesters flooded the streets of New York City to demand an end to the wars all over the world at the United National Anti-war Committee rally at Union Square. Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE), as an anti-imperialist organization, demanded an end to covert wars of U.S. military aggression in the Philippines under the pretext of the Balikatan Exercises, Oplan Bayanihan, and the Visiting Forces Agreement.
- FiRE was part of the 75 person Asian Pacific Islander contingent which included BAYAN USA, AnakBAYAN NY, AnakBAYAN NJ, New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, Action 21, and Jersey City Peace Movement. “We need to show solidarity in international issues, especially due to the bombings and military presence in Korea, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine. Our struggles are connected and rooted in the military presence of the U.S. in this nations,” said Christina Hilo, Secretary General of FiRE.
- April marks the beginning of the annual the Balikatan Exercises or, war games between the Philippines and the United States military. During this, three thousand U.S. troops endanger the lives of thousands of Filipinos by detonating explosives and conducting manhunts in local communities. Usually, the victims of enforced disappearances and murders, the armed forces are given impunity for furthering President Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan agenda.
- FiRE, which defends the rights of women across the globe, “represent[s] the women who are exploited through forced prostitution, trafficking, rape – which all increase when there is a base embedded in the community, “ said Krystle Cheirs, Finance Director of FiRE.
Causes Supported
FiRE endorses the United National Anti-war Committee’s Sat 4/9 Rally
Filipinos demand US Troops out of the Philippines US out of the Middle East An End to the Balikatan Exercises To Scrap Oplan Bayanihan.
On the Ousting of Mubarak in Egypt
February 12, 2011
Irma Bajar, Chairperson, Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment, fire.nyc@gmail.com On the Ousting of Mubarak in Egypt February 12, 2011 Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment congratulates Egypt on their triumphant show of people power in the ousting of Hosni Mubarak.
Standing in Solidarity by Hena Ashraf
on February 9, 2011
Promoted video by Hena Ashraf
- quote So many New Yorkers came out to show support for Egypt! Your FiRE sisters are in it, and were given the amazing honor of ending the video with MAKIBAKA!
Join the online campaign to end the Korean War now!
December 1, 2010 Quote:
- In response to a U.S. War Crisis on Korean peninsula we are urging your participation in a Rally this Tuesday, Nov 30 at 5pm at Rockefeller Center and 2 on-line actions. One on-line action is organized by National Campaign to End the Korean War (www.endthekoreanwar.org)[1]
Finances
Clicking on the donate button on the FiRe website takes you to this Paypal link Paypal donate button
Known Members
FiRE’s Executive Committee
- Chair – Irma Bajar
- Vice-Chair – Hanalei Ramos
- Secretary General – Cris Hilo
- Deputy Secretary General, External – Jackie Mariano
- Deputy Secretary General, Internal – Valerie Francisco
- Finance - Krystle Cheirs
- Cultural – Arlene Rodrigo
Other Founding Members
Other Known Members
References
- ↑ FiRE NYC Join the campaign agianst the Korean War(accessed June 15, 2011)
- ↑ FiRe about us page(accessed June 15, 2011)
- ↑ SANDIWA Confrence 2008 website(accessed June 15, 2011)
- ↑ BOYCOTT NESTLE! website(accessed June 15, 2011)