c-span: you mean filipino guerrillas? >>>> guest: yes. he was optimistic that something good would happen, and it did, and he made it back to england. c-span: i don't know the exact quote, but his elevator didn't go to the top floor. was he mentally deficient? >> guest: he was not retarded or anything like that, but he was elderly, and i think the cumulative effects of the starvation was harder on him than on other people, and, you know, he couldn't see well, couldn't hear well, and, you know, the fact of that, made him a little slower than most guys. c-span: as i listened to your book, by the way, you member who read it? >> guest: james notten read it, a broadway actor, won some tony awards, and read a lot of other books, an old pro at this, reading books on tape. c-span: why didn't you do it? >> guest: i'm glad i was not asked to do it. it's a heck of a lot of work, and i read things and done radio interviews and radio stories for national public radio, and it's a heck of a lot of work to get it right and just a few takes, and i think i

according to the president, more filipinos are coming home with renewed confidence in the economy. >>ert and a number of other attorneys are just a small number of those workers. more than 2 million still work abroad and are able to find jobs in their own country. >> the philippine government is struggling to reduce poverty. the economy is not able to create enough opportunities for the 1 million job-seekers each year and unemployment is considered some of the worst in asia. >> at the moment, the institutions are being improved. that is the reason for the renewed confidence, essentially. now you have to move from just having good institutions to creating better business environments. >> albert remains reassured, saying that the film means creating a better future for and sell without having to live a ways from home. al-jazeera, manila. >> today, at my direction, the united states launched a targeted operation in abbottabad, pakis

many filipinos were opposed to the u.s. presence. in 1992 the navy base was returned to the philippines. the area is developed as a special economic zone. the philippines wants to strengthen its alliance with the united states to counter balance the rising power with its neighbor, china. the philippines and china have competing claims over the areas of the south china sea. their dispute has become increasingly tense making subic an important strategic location once again. the proposed facility would give washington a foothold from which to monitor the south china sea and the maritime activities of china. the constitution bans foreign troops from keeping a permanent base on the country. the proposed joint use facility will be governed by the philippine military to side step any constitutional issues. even so the anticipated return of the u.s. military has already steered hostile demonstrations. ambassador chose his words carefully to try and ease public concern. >> let me stress it is a joint use of facilities. there is no mention at

and we are still very much concerned about the process. >> more than 2 million filipinos are working abroad. each year they send more and then 20 billion u.s. dollars home, remittances vital for the economy. despite their contributions, many overseas workers say the philippine government does little to help them. while thousands come home with stories of mistreatment by their employers, these latest accusations involve those whose job it is to protect them. the philippine government has promised to conclude its investigation quickly. before -- for the victims, they hope it also means that the administration would finally address exploitation of stranded overseas workers. >> india's government launched a $22 billion welfare scheme to get cheap food to hundreds of millions of people. the government will sell subsidized wheat and rice to two thirds of the population. the government sidestepped are the men to implement the program. the ruling congress party is being criticized for trying to gain political points ahead of elections next year. critics of the scheme also say it not take eve

data, but as we know it, a current supervision, caucasian, 17%, asian 3%, african-american 32%, filipino, 1%. and hispanic 12%. so, we have a very difficult verse population. in terms of what our workforce looks like, i'm very proud of that. in terms of the gender of our workforce, 61% of our staff are women. 39% are men. ~ diverse. 38% of the department staff are sworn staff. so, as you probably heard from some of the other public safety departments, typically in any kind of law enforcement, including probation, it is difficult to recruit women. however, women do awfully well as case managers and supervisors, probation officers. so, we're very proud of that. also, our staff, approximately 18% are bilingual. when we did the recruitment for staff over the last couple of years we really focused on recruiting bilingual spanish speaking and cantonese staff and we've been successful in that. our actual workforce representation is 29% african-american, 22% hispanic, 16% asian-pacific islander, 6% filipino, and 27% white. ~ 26%. so, we are very difficult verse in our staffing. in terms of the o

we see net the philippines, and it was mentioned the filipino nursing program. they have some of the highest percentage of nurses of the population in any country of the world because of the possibility to leave when they have that, and as a result the rest of the filipinos who remain behind gain from that. so you're absolutely right. this is a weird argument used by mostly restrictionists, to say immigration is really bad for people in poor countries, when it's really just not true. >> i would add, free traders and economic multiculturalism turns them into socialists in the united states so it's exactly the opposite. >> yes, right up front. >> george washington university. i'm one of those academics you speak of. and i love the presentation. thank you. i'm a little bit uncomfortable with your romantic vision of assimilation and acceptance, though. we all know some groups are more asimmable than others so tell us about how you're defining assimilation, because how many times have a third or fourth generation immigrant been asked, where are you from? what languag

and what was mentioned the filipino nursing program. they have some of the highest percentage of the nurses of any country in the world because of the possibility to leave when they have that. as a result, the rest of the filipinos who are behind gain from that. it's a weird argument used by mostly restrictionist to say immigration is bad for people in poor countries when it's not true. >> turns to socialism in the united states. -- [inaudible] >> yes, sir, until the front. [inaudible] goring washington university. i'm one of the academics you speak of. and i, you know, i love the presentation. thank you i'm a little bit uncrvet of your roman [inaudible] how many times the third or forty generation where you are you from? what language do you speak. maybe you can talk about how you think about asummitlation. because assimilation is based not only on the desire of an individual to assimilate, but also on the desire of the largest society to allow that person to assimilate. >> well, the first part is, are they assimilating our immigrants

the right to ask for flextime; is that correct >> what we're saying to your point everyone has the filipino-americanight to ask but our legislation sets out a procedure when this ask is made. if i we were to work for you i would make a request in writing if you deny it i have the opportunity to ask for a request for consideration. those would not apply in the human resources were to determine for public health and safety functions that, you know, as a general or the police department or for the st. francis hospital if these were to go in effect they wouldn't apply in certain categories >> i think this demonstrates really how great san francisco is fro my prospective whose had employees for many, many years you just do this. luckyly i've worked around organizations that have this done and it has to be with the fact felt community we've served and the challenges we continue too fast. i realize there are other changes and other employers who don't meanwhile provided the same that kind of support but by what is the compelling is the right to ask and i feel it's - i want to make some other comments there

that language when we celebrate all the different communities we have here in san francisco and the filipino and native american community here in san francisco. we continue to build upon our city's long standing history and celebrate diversity and multiculturalism as a part of our lives and here we celebrating the american indian and enriches the great history of our city. these events are special to us and gives us the opportunity to recognize the unsung heroes whose work goes unnoticed and it's an opportunity to share with the larger community and i would like to thank the native american organizing community and the health center, the health center of santa clara, our office and i would like to make a special note of one of our employees who has been diligent for serving communities in san francisco and lois figueroa and thank you for the work that you do on behalf of the communities and of course you recognize the american aids project. [applause] to borrow from the president's words and our san francisco and our bay area community moves forward because of you. we move forward because o

war than 2.2 million filipinos were unable to find jobs back home. the economy remains highly dependent on overseas. many say he has to do more. >> that has to be supplemented by real structural reforms in the economy, for instance, land reform is one important component of that. energizing our stagnant manufacturing sector as well as our backwards agricultural sector. political capital needs to be harnessed in a decisive way. >> his government has also met security challenges. there is a territorial dispute in the south china seas. the liberation front in the southern philippines and the increasingly violent communist insurgencies happening across the country. ends in 2016. although millions still put their trust in him, many worry that three years may not be enough time to solve the countries remaining problems. has enjoyed enormous political capital, thousands are expected to march in protest today. they say the biggest challenge in his presidency is economic expansion and that is one that would benefit millions of filipinos who are living below t

nurse explained how diverse our group was we had members of the trarnd community african-american filipino community to form a circle of love around her and i know that supervisor ca possess was there. i truly was able to be there and we watched her pass on peacefully. we sang to her. she was a community organize and agree testator and a voraciously leader and good friend. she's a district 6 community leader but she was active among the city's campaigns. she recently celebrated her 54 birthday per this took us by surprise because we saw her in those hallways. she had hiv and she wanted to - she's a former exclusive and a former board member and served on your sense advisory committee as well as the community affirmative action network. she also worked at the san francisco tennis union and she was vice chair of the lgbt community. in addition to her tireless action around the senior support she was an actual member of our pedestrian safety work group. she's a former resident on our apartment building on sixth street. she pushed for a sixth street project. in fact, many of the members of the

apologizing empathize 33 percent and the district population is 45 but when you add the filipino officers it's goes o close to the 45 percent black officers 45 people v. and latino 8 percent and district population is about 1 unlawful and the white officers 40 percent. our officers speak korean and spanish and cantonese and others. our part one violent crimes rapes are down and robbery is up and aggravated assault are down. our property crimes for burglary is down. auto theft is up auto whether is up and arson is down and other thefts are up. our violent crime arrests compared to last year and the date we're using is june 30th. we haven't made in homicide arrests this year our robbery arrests are up and our aggravated assaults are up. our burglary incidents arrests are down but burglaries are up. larsen is up and arrests are up. our community police advisory board we meet one a month and what they do is advise me on the crime and quality of life things that are important to the community. we developed a kind of like a postcard regarding distracted walking for people who are crossing the s

nurse explained how diverse our group was we had members of the trarnd community african-american filipino community to form a circle of love around her and i know that supervisor ca possess was there. i truly was able to be there and we watched her pass on peacefully. we sang to her. she was a community organize and agree testator and a voraciously leader and good friend. she's a district 6 community leader but she was active among the city's campaigns. she recently celebrated her 54 birthday per this took us by surprise because we saw her in those

this is san francisco, we encourage that, in the soma there is a lot of filipinos and a lot of everybody else. i believe with the museum there, diversity is stronger. i know the city supports diversity. i want to acknowledge supervisor kim for being a champion in our neighborhood and standing up for the things we need. i just want to acknowledge you and salute you and thank you for that. [ applause ] >> thank you, next speaker. >> president chiu, supervisors, my name is rick smith. i live across the street from the project site. towers next to the building will be home to their neighborhood. saint rejis has this -- i'm grateful for the potential come of the museum and for the benefits in the sale agreement for a needed pedestrian study in the area and pedestrian and development for the open care in the south of market. thank you president chiu and for advocating in the community benefits. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm 49-year resident of the san francisco mission district. i'm here m support of the museum. it seems like many have advocated for this place.

since 2009, only 100 of 670 filipino applicants have passed the test. those who fail are not allowed to try again and have to return home. traders in tokyo are back to work after a long holiday weekend and they are seeing a lot of momentum abroad. we start at the start of a busy day. a hectic time for people to work in the markets. >> we have strong reports from banks in the u.s. new york stocks continue to climb. in fact the dow jones industrial average closed at a record time for the third straight day, ending 0.1% higher at 15,484. let's see how that affects stocks here. we had a public holiday on monday as you know. how are stocks trading in tokyo this morning? >> a busy day today. let's go to the opening levels for july 16th, tuesday. both indeces well into the positive for the nikkei and the topix. while tokyo was closed, there was a lost market use to take in. better than expected bank earnings from jpmorgan chase on friday and citigroup on monday. that lent a positive sentiment overall and a big focus on corporate earnings as well. a jump in man

to prevent the wrongful eviction of senior chinese and filipino immigrants who had no money and no place to go. [ applause ] and today san francisco has some of the best tenant protections. we sued the san francisco fire department, to get women and people of color a chance to be a firefighter, to serve, the public of san francisco. and to dedicate their lives to public safety, today we have a city's first female fire chief and our public safety agencies are more diverse than ever, and just as proud and good as any other generation that this city has ever seen. i joined with others there that were just as dedicated and committed as i was to make a difference for the residents of san francisco. together, we helped to make san francisco a different place, one that embraces and celebrates diversity. and today, san francisco is one of the most diverse cities and one of the most diverse regions. in fact, in the world's most diverse democracy. i never thought that i would ever in my lifetime see an african american as president of the united states and i never imagined that san francisco would

they want more jobs for filipinos. they want the fight against corruption and into-poverty measures increased. they worry the president may not be able to live up to their expectations. >> the first latin american pope is on his way to brazil. it is pope francis' first international trip since becoming the head of the catholic church. what does this is sickening to the shrinking brazilian catholic community? 20 years later, the number dropped to 83%. they10, just 60% say follow the catholic faith. we have more from rio de janeiro. they come from all over the roman catholic world to meet their new pope. like this one from chile where the sexual scandals have severely damaged the institution. >> we have to rebuild our church. this is the moment to do it. if all the young people unite, we can share our faith. >> almost everywhere, you hear the roman catholic church has to be rebuilt. that is in trouble, even here in the world's largest catholic country, brazil. slum, the only church is located next to where people throw t

my neighbors on both sides were filipino. the young teenager who helped me break into the house to do repairs in advance of my permit, was a black kid from up the street. at that time, downey street and most of the upper hayes was pretty dilapidated. it was the end of the hippie era there. lots of houses could be bought for $50,000. my house is worth a million 1/2 now. when the neighborhood lost the ash berry market a lot was lost and people began not to know each other so well as they had before. downey street is a level a long block very densely populated. if you go out from downey street.

tribunal in the hague are examining the filipino claim. the country is challenging chinese claims to a group of islands known as the spratlys. china reacted sharply, foreign ministry spokesperson hue wa chin young released a statement saying the move is unilateral and fails to consider their country's lawful rights. it adds a dispute is the result of the legal occupation of the territory by the philippines. the number of maritime disputes in the area is rising. as the dispute draws on, china's ramping up its naval activities. officials from the philippines say chinese claims over a major toif the islands violate the u.n. convention on the law of the sea. >>> protesters have hit the streets of a town in eastern india demanding answers for a tragedy. 22 children died after being poisoned by a tainted school lunch. dozens more needed treatment in hospital. children at a school near the town of chhapra started falling ill after eating lunch on tuesday. >> translator: when my boy came home from school, he started vomiting. we rushed him to the

many filipinos feel unhappy to be caught in the middle of this power game between the united states and china. nhk world, manila. >> the philippines has asked a united nations arbitration tribunal in the hague to look into the legality of china's massive territorial claims over the south china sea. the department of foreign affairs in manila on tuesday said the u.s./u.n. tribunal convened last week. the philippine government says china's claims run counter to international law. it's calling on china to settle disputes in line with the u.n. convention on the law of the sea. but china argues that territorial issues should be dealt with between the nations involved. beijing has shown no intention of responding to the proposal from the philippines. >>> russia's president vladimir putin wants to speed up development in the kuril islands including areas that japan claims as its territory. putin visited russia's far east to observe a large-scale military exercise. the week-long exercise began saturday. about 160,000 personnel from the army, navy and air force are taking part. military leaders

my neighbors on both sides were filipino. the young teenager who helped me break into the house to do repairs in advance of my permit, was a black kid from up the street. at that time, downey street and most of the upper hayes was pretty dilapidated. it was the end of the hippie era there. lots of houses could be bought for $50,000. my house is worth a million 1/2 now. when the neighborhood lost the ash berry market a lot was lost and people began not to know each other so well as they had before. downey street is a level a long block very densely populated. if you go out from downey street.when it was small one laundry mat and one continually failing other grocery store and convenience store. now there are two spaces because of the laundry mat and expanded and made a deli there and the deli operation was much busier than bacon bacon at its busiest time. i used to stand in line at that deli for 15 or 20 minutes to get a sandwich or a cup of coffee, they have not changed the density of the neighborhood. now there are no other

mentioned which took place in june brought together not only the japanese american community, but the filipino community, latinos from the mission district, and others in a forum that discussed this whole issue. so, i think the production and creation of this document is extremely important with respect to being a model or a direction that these other communities can take a look at and adopt as they wish in terms of addressing their own social and cultural heritage issues. that said, i'm glad to support obviously. but i think there are some problems that need to be addressed, and that is the document, i think, has some problems with the commission, i guess, maybe will have some problems in how to use the document within our own decision-making process. and i think that that is where the resolution that will be drafted for our adoption or endorsement or recognition or approval or whatever the language is becomes extremely important. i know mr. wirtheim is working on a resolution and i think that is where the commission can really say we don't just like this thing. and thank you, community, and

and the morning session, there were various communities represented in town, chinatown, the filipino community, south of market, the bayview and also the mission district. and there the presenters gave us an idea of what kind of cultural and social heritage resources existed in the communities. quite apart from historic preservation, which deals with physical fabric like houses and billions and things, this was aimed more at festivals and dances and language and that kind of thing and what sustains those ethnic communities. the afternoon, there were presentations by representatives from the sterling bank and their program to help small business. there was a gentleman from, i think it's called the geller foundation at university of san francisco where they have a program to assist small and family businesses about how to run those businesses and sustain -- sustain their retail and businesses in various neighborhoods. representative from san francisco heritage and professor from southern california whose specialty is the barrio -- barrios in southern california and has written several

a very, very diverse group and when you think about heritage month, we don't think of koreas or filipino or all of the rest. we think about the family. that is special about who we are and we are in a city that welcomes that and in a city with the mayor that is some of our own and we cannot be more proud their mayor lee is here today to have us kick off a whole month of celebration, mayor lee? >> thank you, claudene, thank you for your annual work. you and the committee, i know that you get together with everybody months in advance to pull this off and there is an exciting number of events that we have, but let me say, first of all, thank you, to assess recorder carmen for joining us today and our newest supervisor tang for joining us today they are going to be great partners in helping me run this city. also, again, to the committee that there is going to be so many events happening this month, the month of may, for all of you is a very, very busy month. many, many different events. i often go back to that nice musical that i watched many years when i was young camelot and they always r

better known project money packing i was also set to fight in macau later this november and the filipinogreat faced american brandon rios at a press conference ahead of his first bat outside the u.s. since two thousand and six the former eight division world champion is looking to bounce back from two stinging defeat last year and the thirty four year old congressman hopes being nearer to home could help him return to winning ways. boxing again. this is a big opportunity for us the fires here in moscow. and it's very close to the philippines so i'm expecting that more than makes you can people are going towards november thirty four. now from the ring to the cage as we meet adam a mug of one of just three russian fighters making his name in the u.f.c. and he showed our own nicholai chelles a few tricks of the trade. for any mixed martial artist reaching the ultimate fighting championship is a dream of the charts to compete against the top ranked fighters in the largest m.m.a. promotion company in the world and russia's atlanta mug of is one of the select few the twenty six year old made h

police officers, they were undercover police officers, were staring at me, and one black and one filipino. and i could not figure out why they were staring at me, and so i thought, well, maybe, you know, they're interested in me romantically. [laughter] but that wasn't it. and they said that, well, there's been a robbery, can you help us out? and then me being oh, of course, absolutely, man, what can i do? and so i agreed to help 'em out x. they said, well, the perp who did the robbery -- the person who did the robbery was wearing or looked like you. we thought -- so -- and now i'm shocked. i had my name tag on, my badge and bank statement and so forth. and so they asked if i'd mind being subjected to an impromptu lineup where the person who was robbed could point me out or identify me or exonerate me. and so i, i didn't see that i had a choice, so i did. and then about 20 minutes later they told me i could go. but being a psychologist, i know too how unreliable lineups are. and so afterwards i was really angry about this thing. but not knowing what to do, i was in training, i was trying

do you have a critical mass of filipino americans, cambodian americans?>> the common form that is used has asian american. it has country of organizin that can be spelled out? >> do you have a critical mass of the group in asian americans? >> we look at underrepresented minorities which is what the grutter decision asks us to do. if i can make a quick point of jurisdiction -- >> before you get to that, suppose we, that you in your xperience identify a numerical category, numerical standard, numerical designation for critical mass. it's x percent. during the course of the admissions process, can the admissions officers check to see how close they're coming to this? >> no, no, your honor. we don't. on page 389 -- >> you cannot do that? >> we wouldn't be monitoring the class. >> isn't that what happens in grutter allowed that? >> it did, your honor. >> are you saying that grutter is incorrect? >> no, your honor. it was one of the things that you pointed out in your dissent. what i'm saying is we don't have that problem. >> i'm asking whether or not you could

statistics say obama got 70% of the asian vote and that is obviously not just chinese but chinese filipino japanese korean whatever. so what do you think would be the appeal to winning these people to the conservative republican side? >> yeah i have been asked that question a number of times since the last election. i don't think anybody has done an extensive polling or in a substantive studies in the asian community to ask people why they voted the way they did. so i think everybody who has talked about it really is just taking a guess. i offered a few educated guesses. one of which i mentioned earlier which is that a second or third generation asian-american often have a tendency to be a bit more liberal or mudd's more liberal than their parents or grandparents. i think in governor romney's case, my guess is that it's quite possible that his very tough rhetoric on china and that of turning off a lot of folks in the chinese community and like i said earlier these days there are a lot of chinese immigrants who are very nationalistic about china. and there are also lots of americans who dis

: he was born peter james hernandez on the island of oauhu to a purity owe keek and father and a filipino bruno after a popular wrestler and bruno added mars years later. for him and his five siblings music was always the family business. >> my dad had this 1950s review show, very las vegas style. my uncle impersonated elvis. that was my favorite part of the show. >> reporter: even when you were two years old. >> when i was two years old. you know, it was because especially the young elvis, like, girls were screaming for him. and as a young kid, you're like i want that. >> reporter: so when his dad put bruno on stage, he did the only thing he knew. his mini-elvis was an instant hit. becoming so popular that little bruno was given a cameo in a movie "honeymoon in vegas." >> i can't help falling in love with you. >> and i became a real, real attention whore. after that. ♪ i want to be a billionaire so fricking bad ♪ >> reporter: by 18 he moved to los angeles. he and his brother started a cover band jokingly called sex panthers. he began performing any place that would have him. places like

we had offered the filipinos in the 1935 mcduffy act that there would be a timetable for filipino independencethis was disresulted by the war, but we thought that the philippines would stand -- that's why we brought kayson to washington and use him as a photo opportunity hoping to send the message that british would design for india a similar approach to gradual decolonization so the philippines is crucial this. american officials during the war came to the conclusion that there were different varieties, different flavors of empire. there were formal colonies. there were also informal colonies. the united states ended up in part because of the massive expansion of american powers as a result of the cold war, creating its own informal and economic empire throughout the world. but in the middle east the americans never believed these mid eastern countries were independent. iran was a de facto part of the sphere of influence ofity the soviet union. iraq and egypt were not actually independent countries. they had been granted nominal independence in 1932, and 1922 respectively. but this had not re