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Imperialists would create division among their colonized and conquered peoples.
Here in America, with the elections coming up I feel the division between cultures, classes and parties getting wider and wider. It’s heart wrenching and sickening.
I’ve been reading a few things and I wanted to share them. Dare allow yourself to be challenged?

First, I couldn’t believe [...]

It’s hard to remember or believe, but there was a time that Philippine or American women couldn’t vote at all. There was also a time in America that when women went to the polls that they were harassed and threatened so that they’d be discouraged from exercising their right as citizens.
Today, most of us women [...]

A little over a hundred years ago, Clemencia Lopez, a Filipina of intelligence and courage speaks for love of family and country to women in the United States. She talks of Philippine women’s equality and the Filipinos’ struggle for independence against U.S. armed forces and imperialist occupation. Here are the words of an extraordinary woman [...]