Everything's Political

This is my opinion alone which is protected by both Canadian and Quebec Charters. I will not entertain comments that are clearly done to rile me up.

Mabuhay les ami.es, long time no episode!

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Mabuhay les ami.es! I'm back with another episode. I am happy to be able to sustain this podcasting of mine finish all the way to Food. I had certain topics I wanted to tackle before I start freestyling about my future episodes. I wanted to be able to touch the basics first. That way, I can just refer back as I talk about more topics. 

As an uprooted immigrant, food is our direct connection to our "home". Even those who were born here and unable to speak their parents' mother tongue, are still able to pronounce the name of the Filipino dishes.  Here's an article written by a kapwa https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/filipino-food-identity_a_23584183 

I also mentioned that I will post some links below regarding Filipino restaurants you may want to order from! 

Cuisine de Manille: https://cuisinedemanille.com/ 

Junior Filipino: https://order.chkplzapp.com/junior/menus 

Beck's Cuisine and Catering: https://beckscuisine.com/ 

Pinoy Pansitan: https://www.facebook.com/Pinoypansitan/info?tab=page_info 

Cafe Kuya: https://cafe-kuya.business.site/ 

I also suggest for y'all to just Google them: Filipino food montreal. It will give you a lot of suggestions.

Now go listen to my podcast!

Vero, out!

Mabuhay les ami.es and Happy new year!

#TyphoonOdette donation is still very much needed. There are many organizations who are currently seeking help with whatever means possible too. I am currently unemployed and unable to help financial means. I am doing what I can which is raising awareness for my homeland. If you have the means, please do consider donating. Just press on the Hashtag and you bet it will direct you to multiple platforms.

With that, I leave you be.

Mabuhay les ami.es, I apologise for being MIA. For this episode, I talk about an issue that barely anyone speaks about by everyone has experienced some way or another. It is about my activist and mental health stemming most of it from generational trauma from my background as former colonies of several imperialist nations. I mean Spain, UK, and Japan were once an empire. I am displaced from my own homeland, "tahanan ng aking lahi" or land of my race in english, to immigrate here in Tiotia:ke/Montreal for economic purposes. The social, political, economic sphere in the Philippines has been in turmoil. We have not had our own time to be who we are. Shout out to Barbados! Anyways, listen to me ramble, and thank you in advance for listening! 

here's the link for the Omni News video about the single Filipina caregiver mother I talked about in this episode. 

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=949802952629237 

Mabuhay les ami.es! Trigger warning for this episode as I rant about the Catholic Church and how it's weaponised to cut our ties from our indigenous belief (paganism). We think of ancient Greek mythology as something cool. We know Zeus, God of War, Venus, Goddess of Love. Well, guess what? We "Filipinos" also have our own version. We have diwata, bathala. We have our own version of God of Sea, God of land, etc. The thing is when we talk about this, we are primitive and we must be "savages" for believing this kind of stories but there's literally Ph.D. level education about ancient Greek Mythology. We don't even have Filipino studies! Anyways, I am already ranting. Listen to my podcast and follow me on Instagram at @Lahat_Konektado_Podcast

I think I wrote this script fairly well. Did you enjoy it? let me know!

Salamat mga Kasama!

Mabuhay les ami.es since I talked about our language, I thought it was fitting to read you all a Tagalog spokenwords. This one is from Akdaan anthology, 3rd edition. It is a spoken word by Mary Jane Veloso who was sentenced to death by the Indonesian government due to drug charges. She was allegedly a drug mule.

Anyways, je vous souhaite un bon écoute. Merci encore une fois d'avoir m'écouté, c'est bien apprecié. Maraming salamat mga kasama. 

Vero, out. 

Our language is one of our connections to our culture, heritage. There are so many languages in the Philippines because we are very diverse. Tagalog "became" the dominant language in the Philippines as decided by the ruling Spaniard, during the Spanish occupation.

I say no more. I believe we can start investing in ourselves, supporting one another's business and grow away from our dependence from foreign powers.

I apologise for the random noises in the background. I did a mini-crash course thanks to YouTube on how I can isolate as much noise as I can. If you're wondering where and what's the noise, it's my handheld microphone! It's the wire because I kept on moving. I was excited to talk to our Ate ng Bayan (Neighbourhood's big sister). 

I want to clarify as well is that I did not grow up to where I currently live. My partner did. She's the one who told me the story of brick being thrown in their window à l'époque. Also, I will post pictures of the murals and the cement blocks falling apart at Centre Sportif Loisir over at Van Horne street. It will posted on the podcast instagram @Lahat_Konektado_Podcast. See you there! 

Where can you find France Stohner?

Facebook: @Francestohner.snowdon

Instagram: Francestohner.snowdon

Snowdon is the district/arrondissement she's running to represent here in Montreal, Quebec. 

Mabuhay les ami.es, this is the last episode of me "laying the ground". 

In this episode, I talked about generational trauma within my community that we don't talk about it much. I talked about how this is all connected, it's all politics. 

I hope that my rant has validated some of you! 

Thank you for listening, merci d'avoir m'écouter, maraming salamat mga kasama.

Vero, out.