Book/Author Event: Migrants for Export by Robyn Rodriguez

Professor/Author Robyn Rodriguez comes to Los Angeles to discuss her newly published book, Migrants for Export. Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad. Drawing from ethnographic research of the Philippine government’s migration bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state formation.

Thursday, October 7, 2010, 6:30 PM
F Square Printing (also known as Fernando’s Hideaway)
519 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Local community organizations are hosting a discussion on the Philippines’s Labor Export Policy and the Global Forum on Migration and Development. Professor Robyn Rodriguez, author of Migrants for Export, will be participating in this event.

Coordinating groups and individuals include Sisters of GABRIELA, Awaken! (SiGAw!), Habi Arts, UCLA Asian American Studies professor Lucy Burns, AnakBayan Los Angeles, and Bayan-USA.

Friday, October 8, 2010, 12:00 PM
Robyn Rodriguez, Sociology, Rutgers University
279 Haines Hall
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

“Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Workers to the World.”

(Sponsored by the UCLA Migration Study Group*, Dept. of Asian American Studies, the Center for South East Asian Studies, and the Asian American Studies Center).

Speaker Bio

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. She researches and teaches in the following areas: globalization and development; political sociology; international migration; race, ethnicity and nationalism; gender; ethnographic methods. She is a faculty affiliate of the Department of Women and Gender Studies and has been part of faculty-student initiatives to increase the visibility Asian American scholarship at Rutgers. She is currently working on a second book project tentatively titled, “In Lady Liberty’s Shadow: Race, Immigration and Belonging in New Jersey after 9/11.”

*Thanks to support from: the International Institute; the Division of Social Sciences; the Latin American Institute; and the Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series in the Department of Sociology. The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.

Questions about these events should be directed to:

Professor Lucy Burns
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian American Studies
University of California Los Angeles
Rolfe Hall 1334
lmburns@ucla.edu

Dukot US Tour in Southern California

Please support the screening of the movie, “Dukot (Desaparecidos).”  A question and answer period with abduction and torture survivor, Melissa Roxas; will follow immediately after the film.  More information and show times can be found below and at http://dukot.com, by emailing info@dukot.com, or by calling 213-538-2852.

Friday, September 17, 2010, 7:00 PM
Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA)
3200 West Temple Street
Historic Filipinotown
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Saturday, September 18, 2010, 6:00 PM
Centro Cultural de la Raza
2004 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101

Friday, September 24, 2010, 7:00 PM
Glendale Central Public Library
222 E. Harvard Street
Glendale, CA 91205

Saturday, September 25, 2010, 12:30 PM
The Art Theatre of Long Beach
2025 East 4th Street
Long Beach, CA 90804

Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture 2010

Visit Habi Arts at the community information booth section at the BAYAN USA booth.  Make sure to ask us about the film “Dukot.” We will be selling tickets to the Southern California film screenings of “Dukot” for $10.

Sounds of a New Hope Live Remix Concert

Live Video Remix of “Sounds of a New Hope,” a documentary film (directed by Eric Tandoc) on hip-hop and the Philippine struggle for freedom. The film will be re-mixed and re-edited LIVE on two turntables (using video DJ technology) with new, never-before-seen scenes.

The evening will feature a FREE outdoor screening and concert in beautiful Downtown LA, with live music performances that are integrated into the film.

Sounds of a New Hope Live Remix Concert

Friday, August 27th, 2010, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) Plaza
244 S. San Pedro Street
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90012

Photo by Jay Davis

Performing live:
Kiwi
Power Struggle
Gingee
Krystle Tugadi
Shining Sons
Vicoy Bagongsigaw
k.see
Menchie Caliboso

Food trucks provided by:
Buttermilk

Sponsored by:
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Visual Communications
Fil-Am Arts
Pilipino Artist Network
Beatrock Music
Bayan USA
Anakbayan-Los Angeles
Filipino Migrant Center
Asian American Drug Abuse Program, Inc.
Carson Student Movement
Filipino Student Forum

http://soundsofanewhope.blogspot.com

Montreal International Women’s Conference 2010

Register now and pay your registration today.  Join the international militant women’s movement!

Women of Diverse Origins and the International Coordinating body invites you to register now for the Montreal International Women’s Conference taking place August 13-16, 2010.

Women from around the world will gather under the theme: For a Global Militant Women’s Movement in the 21st Century!  They will review the last 100 years of the women’s movement, honour its pioneers and draw up an action plan to advance the movement, with the forming of an International Women’s Alliance.

At a time when wars and violence against women are raging, as inequalities and social injustice reign and the systemic crisis continues, it is time more than ever to unite in a movement that brings together women of all races and cultures with an international perspective, to oppose war and promote human progress and social justice. The event will take place in Montreal from August 13-16 and will bring in delegates from all over the world: workers and intellectuals, women from the peasantry and farmers, youth, indigenous women, immigrants, refugees and displaced persons and anti-imperialist activists. Please see our internet site for some of the biographies of speakers.

For more and to register now, please visit our site :
http://miwc2010.org

Be there. Be heard. Be part of it!

Registration fees cover the documentation and the souvenir program, lunches for three days, accommodations/lodging, the opening ceremonies and the Solidarity Night with meal. Group rates are also available.

Registration fees also help pay for transportation of speakers from the Global South.

For more information contact: wdofdo@gmail.com.