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ANTI-VIOLENCE RESOURCE GUIDE

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V - DAY F I L I P I N A 2007

What does it mean

to be a man?
PIN AY VOI CES

V-Day Spotlight 2007:

Women in Conflict Zones
WITNESS TO HISTORY:
JUSTICE FOR NICOLE

Man Batters Filipina

To Death in Jersey City
ARRESTED!
2007 VAGINA WARRIORS

“I WAS RAPED”

Ludy
CEO: COMMUNITY LEADER, ENTREPRENEUR, OPTIMIST
 MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER

It happened again. In Jersey City.
Teris Casco, 33, a young Filipina
Th e “ V” Team mother with two young children
brutally murdered by her husband
. . . . y. . . . after a dinner out to celebrate her
DeVoted Publisher birthday. What happened here?
M A R I LY M O N D E J A R Could this savage murder have
been prevented? What is the role
of the community?
DiVine Editor
Marily Mondejar
FA Y O LY M P I A
President, Filipina Women’s Network Two FWN members, Ludy Corrales
and Rosalinda Medina Rupel,
Angel Art Director galvanized the Filipino community
AL S. PEREZ in Jersey City to action. A town hall
discussion and a domestic violence
. . . . y. . . .
awareness meeting have been
scheduled for April 7 at the Lincoln
Park community center. Be there.
This year, we reach out to the men
in our lives. FWN’s Men Against
Violence is about engaging men to
take a public stand as our allies in
fostering healthy relationships.
We bring you updates on the
Subic rape case, Justice to Comfort
Women, and the arrest of Claire
Joyce Tempongko’s alleged
murderer in Mexico.
The Vagina Monologues and
Usaping Puki: Fifth show. Four
years. 178 cast and crew. Over
100 volunteers. San Francisco.
New York. New Jersey. What’s next?
The urgency of our anti-violence
work continues. This is a campaign
that requires a community of
people.
We invite your support. March 24
in San Francisco. March 30 and
April 14 in New York. Are you going
to be there?

Heart Contributors MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

T E S S IE Z ARAG O Z A The international 2007 V-Day Before you entered the theater, you we truly know what peace is...
movement is reclaiming peace by were requested to write a letter to actually in the struggle for a place
K AT HLE E N B E N highlighting women in conflict yourself and will be mailed to you to live, the struggle against the
G E NEV IEVE HE R R E R IA zones. For too many women, when the Iraq war ends. I kept what destruction of mother earth, can
their conflict zone is within their I wrote and now share with you as we truly learn to live in peace – in
O WE N DO N N AHO O own homes. we begin to reclaim peace. peaceful harmony, not only with us
VO LTAIR E YAP “all human” but harmony, one with
“The culture of violence, manifested
How serendipitous! Last November the earth... or face, not only human
D E N N IS MO JAD O in wars, reflect the lack of an
I saw “Walls” a play written by destruction, but both us and
alternative thinking, the lack of
FRA N K LIN M . R IC AR T E Jeannie Barroga circa Vietnam the earth.”
imagination of what peace is about.
War. It intertwines individual
L AWR E NC E TAN TAY Only in social change, in social We must end violence against
reconciliations with the explosive
justice for healthcare, housing, women; we must reclaim peace as
S YLVIA LIC HAUCO journey of the young student whose Tessie Zaragoza
education, intellectual pursuit the absence of any and all forms
architectural design was chosen Chair, FWN Board of Directors
E LE N A M AN GAH AS toward human development can of violence.
as the Vietnam War Memorial.
GENE V IEV E JOPAN DA
GIO VAN N IE P ICO
MESSAGE FROM THE V-DIARIES EDITOR
K EN M AR Q UIS Hiya is not something you call out to Some Filipina women endure abuse It’s time for a change; time for us to
a Filipino friend on the street. Usually quietly out of hiya, believing this is put hiya in its rightful place. The battle
S USAN ANC H E TA translated as “shame,” it goes much better than letting the world know cry for Filipina women everywhere
RO B E RT U Y further, the complexities of face-saving that they or their marriages are in who endure violence in any setting or
all crammed into a single word. trouble. Some friends and relatives have freed themselves from it should
CH RIST IN A M . SA M AL A may even shrink from helping out be,“Sila ang mahiya!” (It is they who
To the collective Filipino psyche, losing
CH R IS TIN A BAAL because of hiya. should be ashamed!)
face can be worse than losing money,
property, life or limb. Hiya is both One of the courageous lolas (grand- It is the perpetrators of abuse, not
blessing and curse, encouraging us mothers) who have taken on the those who suffer it, who should be
to respect and honor our kapwa Japanese government for making them hanging their heads. Wife batterers,
. . . . y. . . . (co-human being) and honing our sex slaves during World War II told child abusers and murderers of preg-
instincts for what nurtures or kills of how alone she was in the struggle nant women violate age-old Filipino
FWN Board of Directors relationships. Tragically, hiya has also for justice. Her children’s hiya, their values more profoundly important
kept many Filipina women and their perceived loss of face at being than saving face – that of honor-
TESSIE ZARAGOZA children in the throes of domestic exposed as the offspring of a former ing and supporting mothers and all
Fay Alvarez Olympia violence far longer than the time sex slave, kept them from seeing their women, fully appreciating their central
MARILY MONDE JAR Freelance Writer / Editor; needed to realize what’s going on mother as the young girl she was, role in the nurture and survival of
DINA GUINGONA Board Secretary, and to get away safely. enduring unimaginable horrors and families and the entire human race.
Little Manila Foundation injustice, surviving to eventually give
LAARNI SAN JUAN The gifts of Philippine culture shine There is no shame in speaking out
them life and a future. Instead of
in the context of happy families and against domestic violence; no shame
CONNIE LLOREN JUNGMANN celebrating her for the heroine that
healthy marriages and relationships. But in saying “Enough!” There is no
she is, they shunned and blamed
EDNA RODIS when domestic violence intrudes, our shame in doing what it takes to save
her for embarrassing them in front
loyalty, notions of what is shameful and a woman’s life, including one’s own.
GENEVIEVE JOPANDA of everyone, as if she was somehow
a sense of responsibility for the collec- to blame for the violence she had Sila ang mahiya!
tive reputation of kith and kin can work suffered.
against us with devastating results.
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From production planning to auditions to the

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day of performances, The Vagina Monologues / as they return to their communities beyond
Usaping Puki has always been a gathering of showdates.
people, Pinays and passions that rock the house. J7 8 B ;  E <  9E D J ; D J I
In doing The Vagina Monologues and Usaping Puki
Eve Ensler crafted a theatre material that is the stage for involvement is wider than a theatre THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
intended to be embraced by any level of life space and FWN has been instrumental in AND USAPING PUKI
experience and sensitivity. She said in her own continuing to pave more “stages.” San Francisco 23
Director’s Notes that there is no “correct” New York 24
We in the directorial team, Susan Ancheta,
or “prescribed” way of performing these
Giovannie Pico, Genevieve Jopanda and Ken SF + NY Cast and Crew 32
monologues. It is up to the actress to decide Executive V-Team 33
Marquis began as miners for talents and we found
“who” the speaker is and bring her to life
more than that! We found Pinays with willing Getting to Know the 35
Elena Mangahas with dynamism.”
hearts all fired-up to perform their personal best in 2007 Cast & Crew
This year’s bright stars, the cast and crew in San and outside the theatre. The audience can sustain
Conocimiento:
Francisco and in New York will prove once again the applause for a long time because they have San Francisco 30
the spirit of live theatre as a call to social action, taken over. Take a bow, girls! New York 32
and will continue to widen the outreach and
Group Photos 34
2007 Vagina Warriors 26
The production theme for this year’s show is inspired by the 1960’s, an
era of great challenges and increased social responsibility. The music F E AT U R E S
of “peace and freedom” from several decades will bind the show V-Diaries 08
together. The stories you will hear are powerful, touching, funny, Cover Story: Ludy Corrales 20
heartbreaking, and inspirational. Written by Eve Ensler, her words are The Little Coochi Snorcher 18
based on the real stories of hundreds of women she has personally Power Lunch 16
interviewed. The cast and crew’s efforts over the last few months to
Filipino Life History Project 29
bring this unique theatrical experience to the stage have been
remarkable. I am truly inspired by the talent and dedication shown by V-DAY 2007 SPOTLIGHT
the entire team. To the audience, thank you for supporting us. Now Women in Conflict Zones 11
please sit back and enjoy the show. Salamat! Ken Marquis Claire Joyce Tempongko 09
Man Batters Pinay Wife 09
Justice to Comfort Women 13
To all my Vagina Warriors because I laugh my rear end way, shape, or form... perfect Justice for Nicole 15
and Protectors: off at the rehearsals and have love casts out fear. 1 John 4:18.
Filipina Migrant Workers 15
begun friendships that empower This is the message of the
It has been nearly four years me into being the best that I Vagina Monologues: To cast Students Suspended 17
since the day I gathered the can be and, hopefully, empower out fear of our bodies and the I Experienced Violence 19
courage to take my son and others as well. But I also do it shame that has led society to I Witnessed Violence 19
leave a man who when angry because I need to be reminded classifing women as second rate
threw household objects at me every year what healthy citizens and to END all violence V-MEN AGAINST VIOLENCE
to punctuate his frustration. I relationships are and are not. I to women and girls. New York + San Francisco 14
used to be a shy, confused, frail know how easy it is to slip back
“I Was Raped” 18
housewife too afraid to use her into the dysfuntional patterns My son is turning seven this
voice, and turned into a woman of relating to others that I year and is growing up to be Sex vs Rape 28
that isn’t afraid to shout the mistook for love. I used to think one of the most compassionate
V-RESOURCES
Giovannie Pico word “vagina” at the top of her that “love” meant ownership little boys that I know. It is my
lungs as a cry against those that of some kind. Now I know it is prayer that we, through our San Francisco Bay Area 10
seek to hurt or intimidate others the highest kind of freedom. awareness and consolidated New York + New Jersey 12
into submission. Freedom to speak. Freedom to voices, can create a world where Community Partners 05
BE what our souls call us to violence is a word that used
FWN Giving Guide 38
This has been my third year be. True love will support and only in history books.
participating in The Vagina protect, not control or dominate. © 2007 The V-Diaries is a publication
Monlogues. I do it partly True love will not use fear in any Love, Giovannie of the Filipina Women’s Network.

FILIPINA WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE

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PHILIPPINE CONSULATE
GENERAL IN NEW YORK
Consul General Cecilia B. Rebong
PHILIPPINE CONSULATE
GENERAL IN SAN FRANCISCO
Consul Rowena Mendoza Sanchez
PHILIPPINE CENTER MANAGEMENT
Gavino Abaya (New York)
Wilma Bautista (San Francisco)
Zeny Avila (New York)
HERBST THEATER
Jennifer Norris, John Bott,
John Mumaw & Lauren McQuade
(City Box Office)
FILIPINO-AMERICAN HUMAN
SERVICES, INC. (FAHSI)
Venessa Manzano
Rose-Ann Ubarra
CECEVIM
Antonio Ramirez
APIHF INSTITUTE ON
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Kathy Moore
CONNECT
Krittika Ghosh
Bincy Jacob (My Sister’s Place NY)
Daniel Jose Older (Brooklyn
Neighborhoods Against Gender
Violence)
APICHA (ASIAN / PACIFIC ISLANDER
COALITION ON HIV / AIDS)
Lawrence Tantay
CARNELIAN ROOM
Marie Enriquez, Ruby San Juan
ENERGY FITNESS STUDIO
Laszlo Huve
CHASHAMA
Risa Shoup
MEDIA
ABS-CBN
Christi Morales
ASIAN JOURNAL
FANCLUBX.COM
Luis Pedron
FILIPINAS MAGAZINE
Ferlie Andolong
MANILA BULLETIN
Hennie Espinosa, Jacqui Conclara
& Tricia Garcia
PHILIPPINE NEWS
Margarita Argente
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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR | SAN FRANCISCO
You don’t realize how much impact you have on people until they tell you. I’m regularly asked why I continue
to be involved in Filipina Women’s Network and The Vagina Monologues. There’s so much fulfillment behind
your involvement when you know you’ve changed someone’s life. It is amazing to witness how much an
individual can transform, how a sisterhood grows and strengthens, and how much empowerment takes place
in the few weeks we’ve spent together. We’re creating a safe environment to allow women to comfortably talk
about their experiences, sometimes for the first time, address it, and help them cope. A cast member told me
“This isn’t a place we just meet once a week to rehearse lines from a play. This is a place that made me feel
safe. This group is a catalyst to my healing process.” Continue to support Filipina Women’s Network and The
Vagina Monologues. Continue to stop violence now and prevent it from happening.
Genevieve Jopanda
MESSAGE FROM THE PRODUCER | NEW YORK
pleas through email, pop-up ads, now means for me. Their honesty being judged or pitied. Making a
websites, blogs, podcasts that try and frankness and laughter and difference means listening to an
to implore, encourage, inspire, sadness, their very personal stories older Filipina share her life in an
motivate, ask us to get involved and experiences and journeys, their abusive relationship. Making a
and “make a difference.” After uncompromising drive to educate difference means understanding my
a while information overload our Filipino community; their door- mother’s experience with violence.
becomes too much to handle, and to-door visits to local businesses Making a difference means
we begin to become jaded—yes, to raise funds for our beneficiaries; laughing with cast members as
the world is a mess; yes, everyone their unflagging dedication and they play with how to best express
is in trouble. passion to ending violence against a “mountaintop moan” or a
women and girls have reignited, “combo clit-vaginal moan” during
Growing up as a gay man during animated, and inspired me. a performance. Making a difference
the urgent flurry of HIV/AIDS means being present, being a
activism in the early 1990s, I have Making a difference no longer
Franklin Ricarte witness to all this activity.
personally experienced violence means “saving the world.” That’s
and loss. These experiences a heavy burden to carry in our The Filipino women and men in
drove me to “raise awareness,” everyday lives. the cast and crew of this year’s
“educate”,and “make a benefit productions are making a
If, like me, you have volunteered difference.” I was on a mission Making a difference means finding difference. And just by buying a
for or have given countless hours — these goals were personal, not rehearsal spaces and performance ticket to tonight’s show, you have
or money to community agencies venues. Making a difference means
buzz words. But then, a few years made a difference. I hope that
working around social justice ago, I began to wonder whether all photocopying scripts and schedules, you realize that just bringing your
causes for many years, you might making phone calls, sending email
this time and energy were worth it. daughter or son tonight has also
have found yourself wondering, Have I really changed lives? reminders. Making a difference made a difference.
means bringing Filipino food to
“When does it end? When will
I see that I have ‘made a Working with and being our weekly gatherings. Making a And I hope that you will continue
difference’?” surrounded by Filipina women and difference means helping create a to make a difference—whatever
girls who have “lots of things to safe and supportive place where that means for you—until the
In our digital information world, say” these last two years reframed a young Filipina can talk about violence stops.
we can no longer escape the what “making a difference” being raped and beaten without
M E S S AG E F R O M T H E A S S O C I AT E D I R E C TO R | NEW YORK
I’m very excited to participate us. As I have sat in on the initial was silenced. I am unified with this
for a second year with the FWN’s meetings of FWN’s NY chapter group of women and men who all
production of “The Vagina (currently under development), care to pave a brighter future for
Monologues.” Last year was an I am inspired by the company of generations to come... working
incredible experience and I am Filipino women who come from toward creating respect for our sex,
proud and honored to return as various walks of life, but who all our culture... creating a future with
an Associate Director as well as a share common goals in creating our no prejudice, no fear. This “little”
returning cast member. I am very future. As it has proven a challenge show has blossomed world-wide
pleased that we are presenting for all Asian women to overcome and exposes a Universal female
the show at the Philippine Center the stereotypical roles we have voice and is making a difference
this year. I’m very encouraged been bound to, so must we free each time it is performed. There are
by this show of support and am ourselves of the fear to speak out many small steps we are taking
appreciative of the opportunity to and express ourselves. As some together that I hope will lead to a
contribute to change. This show has have expressed both curiosity discovery someday that we have
served as a vehicle for education, and concern over the mere title of Susan Ancheta found ourselves arriving to a better
transformation, and personal the show, I am respectful of the place. Thanks to this Fantastic NY
enlightenment. It is a journey of difficulties we face in transition cast, Marily, Elena, and Franklin,
pain, laughter, excitement, hope, from our traditional practices. Sadly, to work toward change. Suddenly and my friends, Jose Llana, Rona
love... and I hope our audience will it takes a horrific news story to I am not ashamed to speak out Figueroa, and Marie Matiko for your
dare to take it and embrace it with remind us that we must continue because I am outraged that a voice leadership and inspiration!
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Christine’s Bakeshop
David Ceccaerelli, SF News Paper
Women’s Dennis Mojado, Refracted Moments
Intercultural CALIFORNIA
Edna Casteel, Global LENC
Network WOMEN’S AGENDA Gani Ricarte Jr.
Gani & Violeta Ricarte
Genevieve Dwyer, Genevieve’s Corporation
Genevieve Herreria
Georgia Umali
Gerry Phillips
San Francisco’s Goldilocks
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Centro de Capacitación para Erradicar la Violencia Intrafamiliar Masculina City based non-profit Institute (CTI) provides
T R A I N I N G C E N T E R TO E R A D I C AT E M A S C U L I N E I N T R A FA M I LY V I O L E N C E organization dedicated training to communit y
to the prevention and members, organizers and
CECEVIM is a training and consult- create intimate, cooperative and elimination of family and service providers on intimate
gender violence and to the partner violence in topics such
ing agency based in San Francisco, democratic relationships in their creation of safe families as parenting in the context of
California. It offers an intervention homes. and peaceful communities. domestic violence, why men
model for Latino men who have been CONNECT transforms the attitudes, beliefs, batter and abuse and women’s and girls
violent with their partners and want Men who come to the program are and behaviors that perpetuate family and empowerment programs, and domestic
to stop their violence. Using gender not motivated to question the privi- gender violence and addresses these complex violence in faith communities. We design
analysis, the program helps men to leges that patriarchy affords them. issues through prevention, early intervention trainings to meet your organizational needs.
review and change the patriarchal For this reason, the program is services, and community empowerment. For information contact Quentin Walcott at
212. 683. 0015 x225, cti@connectnyc.org.
pacts that teach them to believe built in a simple and effective man- CONNECT’s Community Empowerment
they are superior to their partners, ner which helps men to review and Program (CEP) facilitates community- CONNECT’s Legal Advocacy Helpline provides
and then to use violence to enforce change their beliefs and behavior. focused responses to violence in the immediate access to legal information and
that superiority. The same men, who learn to stop family through community organizing, advocacy to survivors of domestic violence
their violence in the one-year dura- education, and capacity building. CEP city-wide.
Understanding that these patriarchal tion of the program, begin the work provides Education and Outreach and
Capacity Building to our community Legal Advocacy Helpline:
pacts have filtered into their lives as of facilitating classes in their com- partners including immigrant rights, faith
social and cultural mandates, men in munity for other men who want to based, LGBTQ, schools, public libraries and
212. 683. 0605
the program learn to influence and stop their violence. The model is be- Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
youth based organizations. We work with
change these pacts within them- ing replicated in Latin America and our partners to hold seminars, workshops, For information contact us at:
selves and with other men and to the United States. community forums on domestic violence.
For more information or to become a 212. 683. 0015 x239
partner call Krittika Ghosh at kghosh@ or at connect@connectnyc.org
474 VALENCIA STREET, SUITE 150, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
TELÉFONO EN CALIFORNIA 415.810.2348 | TELÉFONO EN MÉXICO 9153-2234 connectnyc.org, 212. 683. 0015 x239.
antonio@cecevim.org

Filipino American Human

Services, Inc. (FAHSI)
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
(formerly Nihonmachi Legal Outreach) FAHSI is a community-based, non-profit
combines the commitment of a non-profit, organization established in 1993 dedicated
community-based organization with the professional to serving the most vulnerable segments
services of a law office. of the Filipino community of New York
– particularly youth, women, recent immigrants, and the elderly.
API Legal outreach provides services in many Asian FAHSI’s vision is an empowered Filipino American community
languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, with a strong sense of identity and commitment to citizenship
and Tagalog, to the API communities in San Francisco, participation. In support of this vision, our mission is to improve
Alameda, and San Mateo Counties. social conditions and enhance the self-reliance of vulnerable
segments of the community by:
Congratulations for
LAUREEN D. LAGLAGARON • Strengthening the capacity of Filipino Americans to be
For continuing serving the Asian community significant contributors to civil society.
The Asian/Pacific Domestic Violence Project • Developing the potential of Filipino American youth as
The Project’s priority is the representation of survivors of community leaders and organizers; Raising the awareness
violence, not only in seeking legal protections, of the Filipino American community and the general public
such as restraining orders, but by offering concerning Filipino American history and the struggle and
comprehensive services. contributions of Filipino Americans.

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 SACRAMENTO’S FIRST SHELTER FOR BATTERED
ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER WOMEN AND CHILDREN
My Sister’s House
A SAFE HAVEN FOR BATTERED
ASIAN / PACIFIC ISLANDER
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Help Line:
916.428.3271
Business:
916. 868. 7820
E-mail:
info@my-sisters-house.org
Website:
www.my-sisters-house.org
Mailing Address:
3053 Freeport Blvd. #120
Sacramento, CA 95818
Savage murder of Filipina
Teris Casco, 33, in Jersey
City galvanizes Filipino
community to action.
PURPOSE OF WORSHOP:
To increase awareness about the high incidence
of violence in Filipino homes and relationships.
To help Filipina women in abusive relationships
take ation and seek help.
W H Y T H I S C A M PA I G N I S U R G E N T :
Violence against Filipina women has culturally
specific manifestations. Engaging the
community in dialague and learning about
the power and control issues around domestic
violence will “bring home” the understanding
of the broader connections of Filipino values
such as respect for women, dignity, equality
and justice to social and economic issues, to
class and religion. Teris Casco did not have
to die to remind us of the domestic violence
problem in our homes and communities.
A COLLABORATIVE ACTION BETWEEN FWN, PAFCOM & CONNECT.
FILIPINA WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE
3 Save haven for battered Asian/
Pacific Islander women and
children
3 Culturally appropriate
domestic violence
intervention
3 24-hour crisis line
3 Women to Work Program for
domestic violence survivors of
all ethnicities
3 Communities presentations
and consultations 5,000 babies
3 Internship and volunteer
opportunities a year.
RSC is the Bay Area affiliate of IntegraMed, the largest and most experienced fertility center network in the
The mission of My Sister’s House
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Filipino Community
Against Violence
Workshop
Saturday, April 7, 2007
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Henry Gallo Community Center
Lincoln Park, Jersey City, NJ 073004
W H O S H O U L D AT T E N D :
Members of the Filipino community who care
about the safety and well-being of their friends,
family, peers and colleagues are invited to
attend. A discussion of how you can reach out
and help someone you know is in an abusive
situation at home, will follow.
WORSHOP PRESENTERS:
Bincy Jacob, Consultant, CONNECT, NY
Krittika Ghosh, Outreach Coordinator,
Community Empowerment Program
FREE ADMISSION. Come and bring a
couple of friends. Resources and handouts
will be available.
For reservations and community partnerships:
(201) 332-4711 • (908) 693-4277
(201) 892-8681 • (201) 920-9441
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Fugitive Arrested in Mexico –
Suspect in girlfriend’s Slaying
BY: JAXON VAN DERBEKEN,
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER
June 16, 2006 – For more than five years,
Tari Ramirez eluded capture in the San
Francisco domestic violence killing of Claire
Tempongko, a young mother stabbed to
death in front of her two young children.
On Thursday, federal authorities caught up
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with Ramirez, now 33, in Cancun, Mexico.
Ramirez will be extradited to face
charges in the Oct. 22, 2000, slaying
of Tempongko, 28.
FBI officials said Thursday that Ramirez
was arrested without incident after
federal agents tipped local authorities
that he had family in the area and had
been working at a hotel there.
“Recently, our office here obtained some
leads that he may have been hanging out
in Cancun, living under an alias,’’ said FBI
Special Agent Ryan Butler. “He was leaving
one of the addresses where they had
conducted surveillance. They caught him and
apprehended him.’’
Butler said Ramirez is in custody in Mexico
and the extradition process could take as
long as six months.
The case triggered promised reforms in the
city’s domestic violence response system and
ended with the city paying $500,000 to the
family of the victim.
Shortcomings in the city’s domestic violence
response system revealed by the slaying
included communication failures by the
police and probation departments.
Ramirez had served four months in jail for
abusing Tempongko in 1999 and taken
part in an education program for domestic
violence offenders.
But a month before her death, Tempongko
lodged two police reports against Ramirez.
In the first incident, police summoned to
her apartment on 22nd Avenue found her
bleeding from the mouth.
She told officers that Ramirez – who had
left the scene – had tried to choke her and
jam his hands down her throat when she
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NOTES FROM MARILY MONDEJAR:
New York, June 15, 2006. We are one week
to FWN’s Until The Violence Stops (UTVS)
all-Filipina benefit performances of The
Vagina Monologues and Usaping Puki at
the Skirball Center for Performing Arts at
New York University scheduled for June
24, 2006. At about 7:30pm EST, I received
a call from a reporter in California asking
for my comments about the arrest of Tari
Ramirez, alleged murderer of Claire Joyce
Tempongko. I could not believe what
I heard; I had to ask him to repeat his
question. After five years, are we finally
going to have justice for Claire Joyce
Tempongko?
Minutes later, Emily Moto Murase PhD,
Executive Director, San Francisco
Department on the Status of Women calls
and suggested I break the good news to
Clara Tempongko, Claire Joyce’s mother.
When Clara returned my call, she said
that she “seemed to have a lot of phone
messages”. We both wept with joy. I could
feel her warmth and happiness as she
hugged her two grandkids, children of
Claire Joyce, who witnessed their mother’
brutal death. I felt energized and found
new meaning in our campaign to end
violence against Filipina women and girls.
Man Batters Pinay Wife to
Death in Jersey City
JERSEY CITY January 22, 2007 — A $1 million
cash-only bail was set Monday, January 29, for
the former Army soldier charged with beating
his Filipino wife to death after they’d spent the
night celebrating her birthday at a Jersey City bar,
authorities said.
Edward ‘Eddy’ A. Casco, 28, of Sip Avenue in Jersey
City, was discharged from the U.S. Army last year,
but he was wearing a Hudson County jail uniform
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when he appeared in court via video link from
the Kearny corrections facility, The Jersey Journal
reported.
JERSEY CITY
He is charged with savagely beating his wife,
Filipina Teris Casco, 33, early Saturday morning,
then waiting several hours before calling 911 to
summon help. She died the next day at the Jersey
City Medical Center, authorities said.
At 11 a.m., investigators said, Casco called 911 and
firefighters arrived from the Sip Avenue Firehouse,
located just across the street. When firefighters
arrived, the victim appeared to be lifeless, sources
said. They immediately called police because of
her condition, and Edward Casco was arrested on
aggravated assault charges, sources said.
In the apartment, police found blood-stained
sheets on the bed and bloody clothes on the
bedroom floor as well as in a kitchen garbage can,
Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said
“I don’t know what was going on in his mind at the
time of the beating, but it was a brutal, homicidal
assault,” said DeFazio. “It appears to be a domestic
violence incident that went to the extreme.”
A more complete autopsy report released Monday
revealed that as a result of the beating, Teris Casco
suffered blunt force trauma that caused brain
hemorrhaging, multiple broken ribs and bruises
to her face, body, arms and legs, DeFazio said.
Eddy Casco’s parents, Juan and Maria Casco, told
The Jersey Journal that their son was born in
Nicaragua and came to the United States in 1980.
“We are a family without any problems,” the father
said in Spanish through a translator.
“We are immigrants who work very hard to educate
our sons in private schools,” said Maria Casco in the
family’s basement apartment on Jones Street.
“We work day and night,” she said, tears welling
up in her eyes.
The family’s lawyer then advised them not to speak
further about the case.
It was a very brutal beating, based on what was
determined by viewing the victim and the result of
autopsy,” DeFazio said.
Eddy and Teris Casco’s two young sons were at their
grandparents’ home Friday night to celebrate her
birthday, authorities said. The parents were at LITM,
a bar near the Grove Street PATH station, until early
Saturday morning.
Shortly after returning to their Sip Avenue
residence, they apparently argued over the “future
of their relationship,” DeFazio said.
The argument turned violent and Eddy Casco
allegedly attacked his wife with his bare hands,
DeFazio said.
“They argued and then things apparently escalated
to this level of violence,” DeFazio said. “It was a
quite tragic incident, leaving the two children, ages
1 and 5. Fortunately, they were not witnesses to
the event.”
Neighbors said Edward Casco worked in a hardware
store below the house; local store owners said
they’d never noticed anything out of the ordinary
about him.
Adel Ghaly, 42, a manager of nearby Kings Liquors,
said Teris Casco occasionally would stop in the store
to buy gum, soda and chips for her kids.
He said Edward Casco sometimes came in to buy
beer, but didn’t appear to be a heavy drinker.
“He seemed a very nice guy,” Ghaly said.
DeFazio wouldn’t comment on whether alcohol
was involved in the incident.
Reprinted from The Filipino Express Online
http://www.filipinoexpress.com/21/06_news.html
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CHILD ABUSE
Child Abuse Training &
Technical Assistance
(CATTA) Center
707. 84.9547
www.cattacenter.org
Statewide resources against
child abuse
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Family & Children Services
City & County of San Francisco
Hotline: 800.856.5553
www.sfhsa.org/fcs.htm
Child Abuse Hotline, respite care,
parenting classes, counseling
Alameda County Social
Services
Alameda
Hotline: 510.259.1800
www.alamedasocial services.
org
24-hour confidential hotline vs.
child endangerment
FamilyPaths (Formerly
Parental Stress Service)
Alameda County
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Hotline: 800. 829. 3777
www.familypaths.org
Emergency respite childcare,
parenting classes, 24-hour
support & resource hotline
San Mateo County Child
Protective Services
Child Abuse Hotline
650.595.7922
www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/smc/
department/hsa/home
Child Abuse Prevention
Council
San Joaquin County
Stockton
209. 464. 4524
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Emergency respite childcare,
parenting classes, Court
appointed advocates
COURT SERVICES /
LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICES
Court Info
www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/
trial/courtlist.htm
How to contact the courts
statewide by county, searchable
by zip code or city
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Alameda County
Superior Court
Berkeley Clerk’s Office
2000 Center St., Rm. 202
Berkeley, CA 94704
510. 644. 8999
www.alameda.courts.ca.gov/
courts
Filing for Temporary
Restraining Orders
Alameda County
Superior Court
Family Court Clerks
1225 Fallon St., Rm. 250
Oakland, CA 94612
510. 208. 4935
Restraining order application
for self-filing
Alameda County
Superior Court
Family Law Facilitator’s Office
224 West Winton Ave., Rm. 179
Hayward, CA 94544
510. 670. 5150
No-fee court affiliated
assistance with custody, child
support, etc.
District Attorney’s Office
Domestic Violence Advocate
Oakland
510. 268. 7276
Contact: Ali
District Attorney’s Office –
Stalking
510. 272. 6295
Victim Witness Advocate:
Kelly Sage
Trains stalking victims;
Stalking Inspector: Corey White
Fremont Police Dept.
Domestic Violence Advocate
Fremont
510. 790. 6939
Contact: Carol
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
SHELTERS
My Sister’s House
Sacramento
916.428.3271
www.my-sisters-house.org
24-hour help line, provides
safe haven for battered Asian
/ Pacific Islander women and
children
24-Hour Emergency Shelter
4700 International Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94601
510. 534. 6030
510. 534. 9140 – Fax
Women and children;
30-90 Days
AASRA-Federation of
Indo-American
Fremont
800. 313. 2772
510. 657. 1245
South Asian Languages;
Women and Children
(Priority to South Asian);
M-F intakes and overnight
emergency
Building Futures with
Women And Children / Sister Women Escaping Violence
Me Home
1395 Bancroft Ave.
San Leandro, CA 94577
866-A-Way-Out
510. 357. 0205
www.bfwc.org
Spanish; Women and Children housing, crisis counseling,
Emergency Shelter Program
22634 2nd St., Suite 205
Hayward, CA 94541
24-hour hotline:
888. 339. SAFE
Spanish; 90-day stay, women
and children of domestic
violence / homelessness
Safe Alternatives to Violent
Environments (SAVE)
39155 Liberty St.,
Suite C310
Fremont, CA 94538
24-hour hotline:
510. 794. 6055
Office: 510. 574. 2250
save-dv.org
Spanish, Hindi, Tamil;
Emergency shelter & longer
term housing, medical & legal housing; Domestic Violence
assistance
Shepherd’s Gate
1660 Portola Avenue
Livermore, CA 94551
925. 443. 4283
888.216.4776
Fax: 925. 449. 3114
Emergency shelter, job training, Women’s English Hotline:
short & long term programs,
Bible studies for women &
children survivors
Tri-Valley Haven
PO Box 2190
Livermore, CA 94551
800. 884. 8119
925. 449. 5845
925. 449. 5842
www.trivalleyhaven.org
Cantonese, German, French,
Spanish, Tagalog, Hindi;
Emergency shelter for women 408.975.2739
and children of DV; 3.5 month www.aaci.org
max stay
Saint John’s Shelter for
Women & Children
4410 Power Inn Road
Sacramento, CA 95826
916.453.1482
www.stjohnsshelter.org
Emergency shelter up to
60 days
Stand Against Domestic
Violence
1410 Danzig Plaza
Concord, CA 94520
888. 215. 5555
925. 676. 2845
www.standagainstdv.org
Emergency shelter, transitional computers to visit their web site
housing, Adelante Familia for for safety reasons); English &
Spanish speakers
(WEAVE )
1900 K St.
Sacramento, CA 95814
916. 920. 2952
916. 448. 2321
Response team, temporary
employment services
Asian Women’s Shelter
3453 18th St., #19
San Francisco, CA 94110
877. 751. 0880
415. 751. 7110
Various Asian Languages
Emergency shelter in
confidential location
La Casa de Las Madres
1850 Mission St., #B
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San Francisco, CA 94103
24-hour Crisis Lines:
Adult Line: 877. 503. 1850
Teen Line: 877. 923. 0700
Counseling & supportive
services: 415. 503. 0500
www.lacasa.org
Emergency shelter & safe
Response Team;
Spanish, Mandarin,
Tagalog, French, Arabic
Marin Abused Women’s
Services
734 A Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
415.924.6616
Women’s Spanish Hotline:
415.924.3456
Men’s Hotline: 415.924.1070
www.maws.org
Emergency shelter, legal
assistance, reeducation
classes for batterers
Asian Women’s Home
2400 Moorpark Ave.
San Jose, CA 95128
24-hour crisis hotline:
Asian languages; emergency
FILIPINA WOMEN’S NETWORK
food, clothing & shelter for
women and children,
counseling, legal advocacy
Community Overcoming
Relationship Abuse (CORA)
P.O. Box 5090
San Mateo, CA 94402
24-hour Hotlines:
800.300.1080
650. 312. 8515
Legal Information Line:
650-259-1855
www.corasupport.org
(CORA urges those in need of
their services to use public
Spanish spoken; Emergency
shelter, transitional housing,
legal services, crisis response
La Isla Pacifica
Gilroy, CA
24 hour Crisis Line:
408.683.4118
(A service of Community
Solutions) Bilingual services,
emergency food, shelter up to
45 days, drug and alcohol
treatment, outpatient domestic
violence counseling, legal
assistance.
Next Door Solutions to
Domestic Violence
234 E. Gish Road, Ste. 200
San Jose, CA 95112
24-hour hotline:
408.279.2962
Office: 408.501.7550
www.nextdoor.org
English & Spanish,
comprehensive emergency
assistance services, shelters in
cities of San Jose & Santa Clara
Support Network for
Battered Women
1257 Tasman Drive, Suite C
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
24-hour Help Line:
800.572.2782
Office: 408.541.6100
Fax: 408.541.1333
www.snbw.org
English & Español; Crisis
intervention, counseling, legal
services, emergency shelter
North American Islamic
Shelter for the Abused
(NISA)
P.O.Box 50515
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Helpline: 1-888-ASK-NISA
Or 888. 275. 6472
Support and help to those
who only speak Urdu, Hindi,
Arabic, Farsi, Pushtu, etc
Eden Info & Referral
570 B Street Hayward,
CA 94541
Office: 510-537-2710
alamedaco.info
Referral services, daily updates
of shelter availability in
East Bay
National Domestic Violence
Hotline
1.800.799.SAFE (7233)
1.800.787.3224 (TTY)
24-hour access through all 50
states, English & Spanish, with
interpreter services in 140
languages, local access to
shelters, information for
immigrants
Woman Inc.
333 Valencia St., Suite 450
(Between 14th and 15th St.)
San Francisco, CA 94103
24-hour Crisis Lines:
1.877.384.3578 or
415.864.4722
Bilingual, bicultural services,
counseling, legal referrals,
support groups
Haven of Peace Women’s
Emergency Home
San Joaquin County
7070 South Harlan Road
French Camp, CA 95231
209.982.0390
209.982.0396
18+ years accepted; 35 space
capacity; assist women with
food, clothing and counseling
LESBIAN, GAY,
BISEXUAL,
TRANSGENDER,
& QUESTIONING
Network for Battered
Lesbian & Bisexual Women
3543 18th Street, Suite 28
San Francisco, CA 94110
Office: 415.281.0276
www.thenetworklared.org
Support group
Community United
Against Violence (CUAV)
160 14th St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
24-hour Crisis Line:
415.333.HELP (4357)
Office: 415.777.5500
Fax: 415.777.5565
www.cuav.org
Maitri Hotline
PO Box 60111
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
408. 730. 4049
888. 8. Maitri
www.maitri.org
South Asian Women
Peer support / counseling
for domestic violence, Family
law, immigration domestic
violence issues, translation,
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Pacific Center
2712 Telegraph Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94705
510. 548. 8283
www.pacificcenter.org
Group and individual
counseling, narcotics
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interpretation, transitional
housing and community
education
def
anonymous, HIV and Aids
group, social groups
Project Eden
Hayward
Office: 510.247.8200
Counseling services for
LGBTQQ Youth
Sexual Minority Alliance
6
of Alameda County
(SMAAC) Youth Center
Alameda County
Office: 510.548.8283
Support groups for
LGBTQQ youth
SF LGBT Center
San Francisco County
415. 865. 5555
Legal referrals, Temporary
Restraining Order assistance
LEGAL REFERRALS:
TEMPORARY
RESTRAINING
ORDER ASSISTANCE
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Legal Aid of Napa County
1227 Coombs St.,
Napa, CA 94559
707. 255. 4933
707. 255. 2312 – Fax
Seniors only; Only services
senior clients in abusive
situations; For domestic
violence retraining orders in
Napa area, refer to Napa
Emergency Women’s Services
Napa Emergency Women’s
Services
1001 Second St.,
Napa, CA 94559
707. 255. 6397
707. 252. 3687
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707. 252. 3069 – Fax
Contact legal advocate
Gabby Caro for help with
restraining orders
The Cooperative
Restraining Order Clinic
San Francisco
415.864.1790
Bilingual Service; Restraining
Order Assistance free of
charge; Paperwork served to
batterer at reduced fee
FILIPINA WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE
LEGAL SERVICES
Asian Pacific Islander
(API) Legal Outreach
1212 Broadway St., #400
Oakland, CA 94612
510. 251. 2846
510. 267. 6248 – Fax
Walk-in Clinic Rm 1-4;
Interpreter provided with
appointment; Family, civil,
and immigration law
restraining orders, queer
domestic violence, Asian
Languages; Free and sliding
scale fees
Asian and Pacific Islander
(API) Legal Outreach
1188 Franklin St., #202
San Francisco, CA 94109
415. 567. 6255
415. 567. 6248 – Fax
Serves Asian Communities;
Family, civil, and
immigration law; temporary
restraining order, Gay
Domestic Violence Project;
Free and sliding scale fees
Asian Women’s Home
2400 Moorpark Avenue,
Suite 300
San Jose, CA 95128
408. 975. 2739
Temporary restraining order
assistance; Counseling;
Serves all countries; 24-hour
crisis line, shelter; Works
with translators to serve
various Asian-speaking
clients
Catholic Charities
Immigration Project
Oakland
510. 768. 3102
Visa petitions, citizenship,
Vawa Cases (Victims of
domestic violence cases)
Domestic Violence
Restraining Order Clinic
Richmond
137th St., Room 185,
Richmond, CA
510. 374. 3364
Restraining Order clinic held
in Richmond Courthouse
Mon & Fri 8-5 pm
Law Center for Families
510 16th St., Suite 300
Oakland, CA 94612
510. 451. 9261
510. 763. 2169 – Fax
For families ineligible for
assistance from other
programs, but too poor to
hire a private attorney.
SEXUAL ASSAULT
Bay Women Against Rape
Oakland
510. 430. 1298
sfcf.org.bawar.htm
Serves rape and incest
victims; Intake: M-F 10-3;
10 free then sliding scale;
Short-term counseling,
referrals, accompaniment to
hospital, court advocacy
Eden Information and
Referrals
Alameda
510. 537. 2552
M-F 10-4; Counseling, legal,
sexual assault, CalWorks
The Sage Project Inc.
Standing Against Global
Exploitation
1385 Mission Street, Ste 300
San Francisco, CA 94103
415. 905. 5050
www.sagesf.org
Recovery from sexual
exploitation & substance
abuse
Women Against Rape
3543 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415. 861. 2024
www.sfwar.org
24-hour Crisis Hotline:
415. 647. RAPE
Counseling, support groups,
legal advocacy
San Francisoco General
Hospital (SFGH)
Trauma Recovery Center –
Rape Treatment Center
2727 Mariposa St, Ste 100
Crisis Line: 415. 437. 3000
M-F: 8 am – 5 pm
24-hour medical forensic
examination (SFGH
Emergency Room), free
services, Spanish / English)
W.O.M.A.N., Inc.
Women Organized to Make
Abuse Nonexistent, Inc.
A Lifeline for Battered
Women
333 Valencia St, Ste 251
San Francisco, CA 94103
24-hour Crisis Hotline:
877. 384. 3578 or
415. 864. 4722
Support Groups,
Counseling
Programs,
Latina
Services,
Community
Education
V- DAY 2007 SP OTL I GH T
Women in Conflict Zones
Each year V-Day
creates a Spotlight
around a particular
group of women who
are experiencing
violence and resisting
it with courage and
vision. The goal of
the spotlight is to get
worldwide media
to converge on the Given the 21st century’s
issue, and to raise funds and
escalating armed conflicts,
awareness to aid groups who impunity for wartime sexual
are working on it.
violence with impunity
V- Day Spotlight 2007: cannot be tolerated. As
wartime rape and sexual
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violence continue today in
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Men Against Violence Campaign
Filipina Women’s Network Reaches Out To Men.
To end violence against women
and girls worldwide all members
of society, female and male must
be dedicated and empowered to
doing so. Men have always been
an integral part of FWN and V-Day
performances supporting our
productions behind the scenes.
The campaign will address how to
build men’s capacity to challenge
the harmful aspects of traditional
masculinity, to value alternative
visions of male strength, and to
embrace their vital role as allies
with women and girls in fostering
healthy relationships and gender
equity.
Be a V-Man – a man of strength
and compassion!
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Following are some creative and
inspiring ideas to encourage men
and boys to come forward and get Discussion Topics:
further involved.
1) Handprints – we invite men
and boys who attend the V-Day
Filipina benefit performances to
take a pledge by imprinting their » Perceptions of men who speak
hands on canvas or paper, signing
their name on a written pledge
that says, “These Hands Are Not
Going To Hurt Women And Girls.” » Supporting survivors:
2) Men Against Violence
Workshops – These workshops
are about building men’s capacity
to take a public stand alongside
their female peers in fostering
safe and strong relationships.
What does it mean to be a
man? The workshop will discuss
traditional masculinity, creating
space for alternative masculinities,
the issue of violence in our
communities, and how we can
be allies with women to end
family violence.
» Why should men care about
sexual violence?
» Men’s role in gender-violence
prevention
out against men’s violence
» Rape and homophobia
When someone says,
“I was raped”
» Making clear: the difference
between sex and rape
Sponsoring Organizations:
NEW YORK : CONNECT
SAN FRANCISCO : CECEVIM
FILIPINA WOMEN’S NETWORK
NOTES FROM LARRY TANTAY:
CHAIR, MEN AGAINST
VIOLENCE NYC
As an HIV Testing Counselor,
I’ve had to attend numerous
domestic violence (DV)
trainings. Few if any DV
trainings are geared towards
men fighting DV, certainly
none I had attended
previously. This workshop,
however, was one of the best.
The trainer – Daniel Older
– exuded a passion, rare
in facilitators, for the topics
we touched upon. He delved
deeply into the roots of
the words and symbols we
use to describe gender and
the institutions that exist
to define it. For instance, I
hadn’t thought about the
root of the word “family”
until he told us that it is
derived from the Latin
referring to the possessions
or servants of the owner,
a man. Although I feel the
meaning has changed over
time, it is important to
acknowledge the history of
the subjugation of women,
and this is the first workshop
I’ve been to that has formally
addressed that issue directly.
Granted, we had fewer
participants than usual
and each of us have had
DV training experience in
the past, so we were able
to focus on themes a little
heavier than other groups,
especially us as men with our
privilege must do something
if we want to end oppression.
But Daniel’s ardor inspired us
to share more and to really
think on how we can affect
change. I am very impressed
with CONNECT and will be
using them for training in
the future.
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A Witness to History: Justice for
Nicole Update
BY MARILY MONDEJAR
D
ec. 4, 2006: Makati City Regional
Court. U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel
Smith was found guilty of raping
“Nicole,” a 23-year-old Filipina woman
at Subic last year, but acquitted
the other three marines who
were cheering him on.
The women in the room
erupted in jubilation, tears
of victory and then dismay
followed in quick succession as
the Makati City police officers
and the U.S. Embassy security
men scuffled to take custody
of Smith. The Makati police
officers prevailed and they took
Smith into an inner room.
I have never been so proud of
being a Filipina as I was on
that day—justice had prevailed for “Nicole.”
Nobody had believed that Smith would be found
guilty. According to former Senator Letitia
Shahani (author of the Anti-Rape Law, 1997)
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Smith’s conviction is the first win among over
300 cases filed in the Philippines against
members of the U.S. Marines over the years.
Earlier that morning, Marilyn Fowler (president,
Women’s Intercultural Network and California
Women’s Agenda) and I gathered at Nina
Yuson’s home and met “Nicole’s” legal team –
an amazing group of young women law students
from the University of the Philippines Law School
led by Ging Ursua, “Nicole’s” personal lawyer.
I felt privileged to meet Ging—she practically
put her personal law practice aside and financed
the case to champion “Nicole’s” cause pro bono.
Her passion and zeal are to be emulated, as
steadfast as she was in her pursuit of justice for
“Nicole.” Nina Yuson, an honoree of the TOWNS
Foundation was our official contact in FWN’s
support for “Nicole’s” case. Last year, FWN’s
V-Day Filipina New York production selected
Justice for “Nicole” as one of our beneficiaries.
Although Smith was sentenced to 40 years in
prison by Judge Benjamin Pozon, the United
States has demanded interim custody of Smith,
citing the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)
between the U.S. and the Philippines that allows
U.S. troops accused of crimes in the country to
remain in U.S. custody until the end of legal
proceedings. Smith is appealing his conviction.
Over the past year, the case has become a
lightning rod for the issues of women’s rights
and national sovereignty in the Philippines.
In addition to the 40-year sentence, Smith was
ordered to pay the victim $2,000 in damages.
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He had argued that the
sex was consensual.
“This is not just a case
about one woman,”
said Annalisa Enrile,
chair of U.S.-Philippine
women’s group
GABRIELA Network.
“This case is about
the Visiting Forces
Agreement and how
it has reintroduced the
U.S. military back to Philippine soil and all the
issues that go along with that such as rampant
violence against women.”
Tessie Ang See, TOWNS Honoree and columnist
for Tulay, a Filipino-Chinese digest published by
Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran said: “Like thieves in the
night, police operatives sent by the Department
of Interior and Local Government spirited Smith
out of the Makati City Jail into the waiting arms
of the embassy staff last December 29. This
covert act was done by virtue of a clandestine
executive agreement between U.S. Ambassador
Christine Kenney and Foreign Affairs Secretary
Alberto Romulo. It was done at the very last hour
of the last working day of 2006, an assurance
that the camp of rape victim “Nicole” could do
nothing to prevent it.”
Life Interrupted. I met with “Nicole” when
I was in the Philippines last December. A smart,
articulate and brave young woman, she shared
with me her desire to move on, pondering
her career choices and how the last year had
changed her life dramatically. She has a
bachelor’s degree in Management Accounting
from the Ateneo de Davao University. I sat there
in awe of this young woman who has captivated
the world. I realized I was talking to someone
who represented the “future” for Filipinas
worldwide, the new Gabriela Silang.
FWN has created a “Nicole” award category for
the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the
U. S. The “Nicole” Award honors Filipina women
whose words, actions, and attitude, inspire others
to act and revolutionize our society’s way of
understanding traditional beliefs and customs.
continued on page 33
Filipina Migrant Workers
Vulnerable to Violence
B Y S Y LV I A L I C H AU CO
One out of every ten Filipinos works abroad
and over 70% of the nearly eight million
Filipinos working overseas are women. This
makes the Philippines the world’s largest
exporter of female migrant workers, followed
by Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs, as they
are called, often take on jobs that nationals
are unwilling to do. This means most OFWs
do dirty, demeaning or dangerous work to
support their families in the Philippines.
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Women around the world are heavily
represented at the bottom of the job
hierarchy as domestic workers and
entertainers, making them extremely
vulnerable to all kinds of abuse, including
sexual assault, economic exploitation,
isolation and discrimination in the workplace.
Filipina migrant workers are no different.
Many are forced to work in unregulated
industries and criminalized sectors in
informal or “off-the-book” employment.
Some employers hold on to workers’ job and
immigration permits as a means of control,
keeping employees in a state of fear and
virtual slavery, unable to defend their rights
or leave an untenable job situation.
Since domestic work is generally not legally
regulated, the terms and conditions of work
are often unilaterally established by the
employer. Migrant domestic workers living
in their employers’ homes are especially
vulnerable to abuse and have little or no
protection from the state.
This lack of domestic employment regulation
is a critical issue, having repercussions across
the board for domestic workers in terms of
pay, hours of work, mobility and exposure to
abuse and violence. Effective regulation of
domestic employment and measures to
protect worker rights by law are urgently
needed.
While both male and female migrants are
frequently deprived of their rights, most
human rights violations against women
migrant workers are rooted in gender
discrimination. Female migrants often find
themselves in abusive conditions and suffer
exploitation, ill treatment and trafficking.
Over 700 Filipino workers, mostly women, die
each year due to maltreatment or employer
abuse. In 2004 alone, six Filipina women
working in Beirut died under mysterious
circumstances after falling from buildings in
separate incidents. Their deaths have been
labeled “mysterious” because their employers
claim the workers committed suicide. The
Philippines has one of the lowest suicide
rates in the world, especially among women.
OFWs make tremendous contributions to
their families, communities and national
economies. In many cases the money they
send home is all that keeps a whole network
of people from falling into abject poverty.
Filipino women working overseas account
for a third of annual foreign exchange
remittances to the Philippines – US$2 billion
of the US$6 billion total.
Despite the sacrifices and significant
contributions of female OFWs, their rights are
denied and violated to an alarming extent.
A platform for action is needed to address
the obstacles to human rights especially
with regard to women migrant workers.
The full recognition and implementation of
international human rights standards cannot
be achieved otherwise.
Sources: UN Fund for Women (UNIFEM),
UN population Fund (UNFPA, International
Organization of Migration (IOM) International
Labor Organization, Vital Voices, Global
Forum for Women, CEDAW 2003 Panel.
For more information or to order publications
on these issues, please visit www.unifem.org
and www.unfpa.org.
Sylvia Lichauco, a Filipina-American
based in Boston, is currently organizing
a major conference in 2008 on migrant
workers issues and rights. Representatives
from government and non-government
organizations (NGOs) in countries of origin,
transit and destination will be coming to the
Philippines to participate. To find out how
you can get involved, please contact Sylvia at:
philwomen2008@verizon.net.
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came home late. Subsequently, Ramirez was never
put on notice of an emergency order that barred
him from contacting Tempongko.
Police referred the matter to probation officials,
who said they never learned of the incident.
“The most striking factor is how ineffectively the
three main criminal justice departments (police,
district attorney and probation departments)
appeared to work together in this case,” a report
issued by the city attorney’s office in
2002 concluded.
“Each department appeared to operate almost
independently without effectively communicating
vital information to each other,” said the report,
which was prepared at the behest of the city’s
Commission on the Status of Women.
Kenneth Theisen, an advocate against domestic
violence who is a member of the city’s Justice and
Courage Oversight Panel, created in the wake of the
Tempongko killing, said he hopes the arrest brings
a measure of solace to the victim’s family.
“I hope that the family’s nightmare will soon
end,” Theisen said, “but I worry most about the
two children who may have to testify. Had the
system worked properly, Claire Joyce would still
be alive and Mr. Ramirez would not be facing trial.
It is a tragedy for all concerned.”
Eerily similar to the slaying of Veena Charan a
decade earlier that first triggered an overhaul
of the domestic violence response system, the
Tempongko case led to a new blueprint for San
Francisco to better respond to cries for help.
One long-pending improvement is a computer
system that would allow police, the district
attorney’s office, the probation department and
the courts to communicate with each other.
“For instance, if a defendant is in criminal court in
the morning, the judge could issue an order saying
he must stay away from his wife and children,”
Theisen said. “But in the afternoon, the same
defendant could appear in family court where
a judge might issue an order saying he could see
his wife and kids. With the new computer system,
a judge can learn how other judges have ruled
so they won’t make contradictory orders.”
Reprinted from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Staff writer Elizabeth Fernandez contributed to this report.
E-mail Jaxon Van Derbeken at jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com.
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Power Lunch 2007:
Remarkable Filipina Women
A
full-time mother of seven,
entrepreneurs and activists,
professionals of various fields
and a group of rising young
San Francisco lawyers made
up the sixty mostly Filipina women
and men who packed the City Club
of San Francisco’s Bechtel Room on
March 9, 2007.
Filipina Women’s Network chair
Tessie Zaragoza proclaimed it the
best-attended Power Lunch ever.
The room crackled with excitement
from start to reluctant finish at
the fourth annual FWN-sponsored
event honoring the latest crop of
Remarkable Filipina Women.
Curiously, the luncheon venue was
named after engineering magnate
Stephen Bechtel, Sr. who oversaw sharing her conviction that there is opened up to the child of Filipino
the building of Hoover Dam, the Bay no higher priority today than fixing farm workers when, as a high
Bridge and the entire city of Jubail, what ails the US education system. school student, she saw a Filipina-
Saudi Arabia. Bechtel’s portrait Escudero, a veteran administrator American woman lawyer for the
looked out over the elegantly set and fundraiser of San Francisco Bay first time. Attentive audience
luncheon tables, seemingly at odds Area non-profits and Executive members learned how she took
with what FWN’s Council of Director of Ayala Foundation USA, her mother’s elbowed challenge
Remarkable Filipina Women shared her experiences of crossing (“Why can’t you be like that?”) and
represents. cultures and helping leverage rose to exceptional heights in the
Filipino-American resources to aid legal profession, no doubt inspiring
Yet, that somewhat jarring visual deserving youth in the Motherland. the young women lawyers in the
simply accentuated just how room, as well as one male audience
extraordinary each honoree is in Luz, president and CEO of Softype, member who had previously
her field, her accomplishments Inc., fascinated the crowd with her thrown the audience into gales
surmounting the odds stacked adventures as a globetrotting of laughter by describing himself
against her and other women of business executive in male- during participant introductions
color by the Old Boys’ Club that dominated industries. No less as a “recovering lawyer.”
Bechtel represented. intriguing was how she and her
Pakistani-American husband made New American Media chief and a
Madam Justice Tani Gorre Cantil- sure their US-born offspring remarkable Filipina woman herself,
Sakauye of California’s Third District expanded their horizons by Alcazaren-Keeley moderated the
Court of Appeal headlined the spending at least one year of high panel discussion along the lines of
Power Lunch, joined by fellow school in a foreign country. It was Barbara Walters’ television show
Filipina achievers Hydra Mendoza, noteworthy that her children chose “The View.” She got the panelists
Maya Escudero, Nana Luz and panel to live and study in a remote rural to ask each other questions and
moderator Odette Alcazaren-Keeley. town in South India over more share their stories in a lightheartedly
glitzy locations like, say, Paris, and open, heartfelt manner punctuated
The first Filipina elected to public
felt it was the best thing they could with humor and shot through with
office in San Francisco and the
have done for themselves. empowering messages for those
mayor’s Education Advisor and
who clearly wanted to follow in the
school district liaison, Mendoza Cantil-Sakauye shared her footsteps of five most remarkable
recounted her remarkable journey groundbreaking story of discovering Filipina women.
from PTA meeting to city hall, the limitless possibilities that
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Cross River Students Suspended
for Saying “Vagina” at Open Mic Session
R E P R I N T E D F R O M W W W. V D A Y. O R G
CROSS RIVER – Saying the word “vagina”
during a reading at a John Jay High School
open mic session has resulted in suspension
for three female students and has sparked
a debate about censorship throughout the
community.
School administrators had warned the girls
it would be inappropriate to say the word
while reading a selection from Eve Ensler’s
“The Vagina Monologues,” but the students
were willing to suffer the consequences.
Now Ensler, a playwright and feminist who
grew up in Scarsdale, has offered to visit the
Katonah-Lewisboro school district to discuss
the matter.
Juniors Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and
Hannah Levinson will each serve separate
one-day, in-school suspensions this week,
Reback said.
“When I was able to say the word ‘vagina’
and be proud to say it – and it wasn’t crude
and it wasn’t inappropriate and it was very
real and very pure, it was important to me,”
Reback said yesterday. “We were willing
and ready to take whatever came.”
The administrators’ decision to suspend
the girls has caused an uproar within the
school, with students making T-shirts and
posters to protest the punishment. A group
opposed to the suspension has been created
on Facebook.com, a popular Internet
networking site, and had attracted more
than 350 members yesterday.
The move has prompted parents to write
to the Board of Education and circulate
e-mails calling the suspension a “blatant
attempt at censorship.”
School board President Peter Breslin said
the decision to suspend the students was
not about censorship, but rather about
insubordination. He said school adminis-
trators had been concerned about the use
of the word because young children would
be at the open mic session, and the girls
had agreed not to say it.
“I think the students need to understand
that if you make an agreement with the
administration to do something, and then
you don’t do it, there’s going to be
consequences for that,” he said. “We are
very committed to free expression and we
do not tolerate censorship in our district.” Ultimately, however, they decided to say
“The Vagina Monologues” is a book based had the liberty to change a work of art.
on interviews with more than 200 women
about their experiences of sexuality. Since All three girls read the final line together,
being written in 1996 as a response to the
guilt and embarrassment many women
still connect with their bodies, the book
has been translated into 45 languages
and been performed in cities throughout
the world.
The piece has also led to the founding
of “V-Day,” an international grass-roots
movement dedicated to stopping violence
against women. It is celebrated February
14 with people performing “The Vagina
Monologues” and raising money for
the cause.
Ensler offered yesterday to take part in a
public meeting to discuss with students,
parents and educators why it was important
for girls of high school age to feel
comfortable saying the word “vagina.”
The author said much of the violence that
happens to women in the United States
occurs because they are “disempowered
by lack of education.”
“What is wrong about the word ‘vagina,’
which is the correct biological term for a
body part?” Ensler asked. “It is not slang.
It is not dirty or racy. The fact that it was
censored is an indication of exactly what is
going on in American schools, where girls
and boys are not being educated about their
bodies in a healthy way. We’re pushing
everything into the closet.
“We need open, healthy sex education
where girls know and love their bodies,”
said Ensler, who addressed the United
Nations yesterday during an international
conference dedicated to stopping rape as
a weapon in conflict.
The controversy in Cross River centers
around the verse: “My short skirt is a
liberation flag in the women’s army.
I declare these streets, any streets, my
vagina’s country.”
The words were part of a longer selection,
which the three girls had divided among
themselves.
Leading up to the performance, the girls had
debated whether to say the word that they
knew would get them into trouble. One idea
they discussed was to not actually say the
word, but rather hold up a sign with the
word written on it.
“vagina” because they did not feel they
as a sign of unity.
P H OTO: A P / T H E J O U R N A L N E W S, R I C KY F LO R E S
Three John Jay High School juniors are photographed outside the school in Lewisboro, NY,
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, after a news conference detailing their suspension from classes for
using the word vagina in a recitation of “The Vagina Monologues” in school the week before.
From left are Hannah Levinson, Megan Reback and Elan Stahl.
“I think almost everyone can agree it’s disrupts the school environment or that
important to uphold the integrity of infringes on the rights of others. Many courts
literature and not change or alter it,” have held that school officials can restrict
Reback said. student speech that is lewd, The First
Amendment Center said.
School administrators did not return
requests for comment yesterday, but Breslin, Allen Hershkowitz, a 51-year-old
the board president, pointed to the district’s environmental scientist with two children
stance against censorship during a debate in the high school, said suspending the
over Nadine Gordimer’s “July’s People.” The students was not only a form of censorship,
book is part of the 10th-grade curriculum, but was also bad educating. He would like
despite parents’ criticism about its sexual to see the administrators apologize for
and racial content. making a mistake.
As for a student’s right to free expression, “No one should be embarrassed to use the
the U.S. Supreme Court has said students word ‘vagina,’ “ said Hershkowitz, a former
“do not shed their constitutional rights to Lewisboro town councilman. “It’s exactly the
freedom of speech and expression at the opposite message we should be teaching
schoolhouse gate.” our children…That’s when problems arise,
when they’re not informed and not feeling
Public school officials, however, may regulate comfortable referring to their bodies.”
student expression that substantially
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The news that Hannah Levinson, Megan Reback and Elan Stahl’s
suspension has been lifted is a vagina victory and an indication of the
students’ intelligence, grace and integrity and bravery. It is a victory for
free speech and for girls knowing that they have vaginas and that it’s a
healthy thing, not something to hide or call by a different name.I hope
that this will further the discussion and will secure what the students have
begun – they have highlighted how important it is to honor literature
and for girls and boys to use the word vagina comfortably. I believe that
we should encourage girls and boys of all ages to speak comfortably and
without reductive or infantilizing nicknames about their bodies, that
they should be part of a dialogue about their bodies and their rights
so they have agency over their bodies. Through V-Day, “The Vagina
Monologues” is performed annually as a benefit to raise awareness and
funds towards ending violence against women in thousands of colleges
and communities, including about 20 high schools each year. I hope
that this victory opens the door for high schools around the country to
present the play.
Eve Ensler, playwright and V-Day Founder
FILIPINA WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE 17
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When Someone Says,
“I Was Raped.”
BELIEVE them. It is not your
role to question whether a rape
occurred. The fact is that false
rape reports are no more nor less
common than false reports for
other violent crimes.
HELP them explore their
options. Don’t take charge
of the situation and pressure
the rape survivor to do what
you think s/he should. That’s
what the rapist did. Give
her/him the freedom to choose
a path of recovery that is most
comfortable, even if you would
do it differently. Remember, there
is no one right way for a survivor
to respond after being assaulted.
LISTEN to them. It is crucial
to let survivors know that
they can talk to you about the
experience when they are ready.
Some may not wish to speak to
you immediately, but at some
point during the healing process,
it is likely the survivor will come
to you for support. When that
happens, don’t interrupt, or yell,
or inject your feelings. Just open
your ears to the pain of being
raped. Your caring but silent
attention will be invaluable.
NEVER BLAME them for
being assaulted. No one
ever deserves to be raped. No
matter what they wore, how
many times they had sex before,
whether they were walking
alone at night, whether they
got drunk, if they were married,
or whether they went up to the
perpetrator’s room. Even if the
survivor feels responsible, say
clearly and caringly, “It wasn’t
your fault.”
ASK before you touch.
Don’t assume that physical
contact, even in the form of
a gentle touch or hug, will be
comforting to a survivor. Many
survivors, especially within the
first weeks after an assault,
prefer to avoid sex or simple
touching even by those they love
and trust. Be patient. Give them
the space they need, and try your
best not to take it personally.
One way to signal to the survivor
that you are open to giving
physical comfort is to sit with an
open posture and a hand palm
up nearby.
RECOGNIZE that you’ve
been assaulted too. We
can’t help but be hurt when
someone we love is made to
suffer. Don’t blame yourself
for the many feelings you
will have after learning that
someone close to you has been
raped. Sadness, confusion,
anger, helplessness, fear, guilt,
disappointment, shock, anxiety,
desperation, and compassion
are all common reactions for
survivors and their significant
others. Being aware of these
emotions will ultimately help you
better understand the survivor’s
experience and be more
supportive.
GET HELP for yourself.
Whether you reach out to a
friend, family member, counselor,
or religious professional, make
sure you don’t go through this
experience alone. Most rape
crisis centers offer counseling
for significant others and
family members because they
realize that the impact of rape
extends far beyond the survivor.
Suppressing your feelings will
only make you less available to
support the survivor. Remember,
asking for help when you need
it is a sign of strength, not
weakness.
www.MenCanStopRape.org
© 1998, 2001 Men Can Stop Rape
Understanding “The Little
Coochi Snorcher That Could”
BY A COLLEGE CAMPAIGN ORGANIZER, COLLEGE OF SAINT CATHERINE
“The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could” is the
story of a woman that has provoked outrage, but
often for the wrong reasons. Eve Ensler, V-Day’s
founder and the playwright of The Vagina
Monologues, did not fabricate this story: it is
based on the experience of a real woman.
At five, the subject’s mother disapprovingly tells
her that her “Coochi Snorcher,” their family’s
nickname for the vagina, is something to be
ashamed of. Her mother, the most important
female figure in her life tells her that the vagina
is something that she cannot talk about, think
about, and certainly not touch.
At seven, an older boy physically assaults her.
She limps home scared, fearful, broken and worst
of all, confused. Her mother blames her for the
attack, one of the most painful typical accounts
of the female experience, blaming the victim.
Her mother again reinforces that her vagina is
something to be hidden and ashamed of,
introducing the concept of the guilty victim.
At nine, the girl impales her vagina on a bedpost
while playing. Her vagina is again the source of
pain and embarrassment. There is very important
imagery in this memory; after the accident, she
describes her vagina as making “high-pitched
screamy noises” and at the hospital “they sew
it up down there” – metaphorically silencing
her voice.
When the character is ten years old, she is
violently and brutally raped in her own home by
her father’s drunken friend. The episode ends with
the girl covered in her attacker’s blood after her
father shoots him. After this incident she is not
allowed to see her father for seven years. She
reflects despairingly, “I’m sure my vagina is finally
falling out.”
At 13, she describes her vagina as “a very bad
place, a place of pain, nastiness, punching,
invasion and blood. It’s a site for mishaps. It’s
a bad-luck zone. I imagine a freeway between
my legs and I am traveling, going far away from
here.” At the age of thirteen, this woman hates
her vagina, as it has been nothing but a site of
pain, humiliation, family dispute and bad luck.
It has been the source of extreme emotional,
verbal and physical abuse. At 13 years of age,
she detests her vagina, and in turn, herself.
These experiences are not unheard of, and more
importantly and unfortunately, not uncommon.
Based on the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S.
Department of Justice’s 2004 National Crime
Victimization Survey, Rape, Abuse & Incest
National Network (RAINN) calculates that every
two and a half minutes, somewhere in the United
States, someone is sexually assaulted.
Up until the age of 16, this woman has had no
notable positive experiences with her vagina. The
only experiences she has had with men have been
violent, forceful, shameful and embarrassing.
At 16, she has her first positive experience with
her vagina. In the monologue, she describes
meeting a ‘beautiful, independent and successful
24-year old woman’ who compliments and
inspires her. The woman gives her alcohol and
teaches her about her sexual self. Before this
incident, she only had cruel experiences with her
vagina, but this older woman does “everything
to me and my vagina that I always thought was
nasty before, and wow.” The girl had been in a
place where her vagina was a heavy burden on
her life. This older woman transformed her and
her vagina and “raised it into a kind of heaven.”
At this pivotal point in her life, she is able to
redefine her vagina.
There are several critiques of this piece. The first
involves the consumption of alcohol by a minor.
It would be idealistic to think that 16-year-olds
do not consume alcohol. Good or bad, underage
drinking occurs in high schools and colleges –
even at the College of St. Catherine. To ignore
or deny this is absurd and unproductive.
The second and more controversial part of the
experience is the sexual contact with an older
woman. It is often hard to tell if people are more
uncomfortable with the age of the other woman
involved or her gender. Regardless, it is the
experience of many young women – and men –
to have sexual encounters with older parties, of
either sex. Further, it is the irrefutable experience
of a number of female students at the College of
St. Catherine to have had a sexual relationship
with another woman. To deny this is to fool
yourself and discredit the lives of many incredible
young women who make substantial
contributions to this campus community.
The political correctness of this story is not
significant. MPIRG and V-Day do not endorse or
condone any of the actions in any of the
monologues. MPIRG and V-Day encourage the
audience to engage in critical thinking and
reasoning. It is important to open a space in
which women and men are able to talk, share,
listen and grow from their experiences. For too
long, stories such as this one have been
silenced. V-Day and MPIRG seek to end this
silence; to tell the stories that could not be told
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I Experienced Violence...
When I was 6 years old, an older cousin
touched me inappropriately and would peep
in a hole of the bathroom door when I would
take a shower. I was really scared but I did
not have the language / vocabulary to express
what was going on. I just knew something
was off. I was already 15 years old when I
spoke about it to my friends in high school.
For nine years, I carried this burden that I was
a slut and a sinner. I was scared I would never
get my period. What does a six-year old
know? I found out from my friends that
they’ve experienced worse. At least,
I was only touched. My friend was fingered
and penetrated. She said she had a hard
time urinating afterward.
A few years ago, a friend of my husband’s
went into our master bedroom, while my
husband and I were asleep. He touched my
body. I had to go to therapy to understand
why I did not just scream, ‘No! Stop it!’
The therapist tried to get me to acknowledge
that I used other methods to get him to stop.
I AM THE SURVIVOR OF VIOLENCE. I, AN
INCREDIBLY ARTICULATE AND EMPOWERED
WOMAN , REMAINED SILENT AFTER NOT BEING
BELIEVED BY THE FIRST MENTAL HEALTH
PROFESSIONAL I DISCLOSED MY STORY TO .
I HAVE DEDICATED MY LIFE TO WORKING
WITH SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE , GIVING VOICE
AND CREDIBILITY TO THEIR STORIES .
I grew up with rose-colored glasses,
and was just told to ‘stay away from
boys’... which didn’t really prepare
me for the reality of how to deal with
the subject of sex. I literally did not
know about it or of physical danger.
Unfortunately, my first sexual
experience ended up being a date rape.
I was so confused and felt so guilty that
I stayed with that ‘boyfriend’ for years,
trying to make it right. I took the
abuse as if I was a martyr. I finally
broke up with him, but the emotional
scars took longer to heal. Now I
recognize situations and when I see
someone being abused, I act right
away. I saw a couple last year in a
parking lot–they were screaming at
each other and it was starting to get
physical. I warned them to stop or
I would call the police. They moved
away from me, but I could still hear them
so I called 911. I did not want to read it
in the news the next day about some girl
getting beaten or killed when I could
have done something about it.
When I was a child, my father was always
beating all of us. If you made an error or
mistake, all of us will suffer and it went
on and on. I lost my hearing in my left
ear because of it. I thought it was normal
to discipline family members that way.
UNFORTUNATELY, YES, I RAN AWAY THEN...
BUT NOW IN THIS STAGE OF MY LIFE I DO
NOT TOLERATE ANY FORM OF VIOLENCE.
In 1975, a ‘friend of the family’ came to
stay at our home. My eldest daughter was
a newborn. I had the flu, and I did not want
my newborn baby to catch it, so I slept in
another bedroom while my husband and
our baby slept in our room. The houseguest
forced himself into my room and tried to
attack me. I was afraid that he might hurt my
baby, so I yelled to my husband and asked
him to protect the baby and get help. My
husband locked the bedroom door so that
the houseguest cannot get to the baby,
leaped out of the window, which was on
the second floor, and ran to the nearest
payphone to call 911. Meanwhile, I struggled
with the houseguest and when I heard the
police arrive, I managed to escape. My baby
slept soundly throughout the whole ordeal.
I Witnessed
Violence...
I witnessed a friend being hit by her
husband. While everyone in the
house was being silent. I called the
police. This gave her the courage
to follow through with a complaint
and in time, she divorced him.
I N COLLEGE...
1. A friend of mine was attacked by
a couple of guys. I ran to help him.
2. I heard another friend telling a
guy she did not want to have sex
with him. So I went to her room
and got her out of the situation.
… At home. I was less than 5 years
old then and could not do anything.
I HAVE WITNESSED WOMEN BEING ABUSED
GROWING UP IN THE P HILIPPINES . A S A
YOUNG ADULT, I LEARNED THAT A WOMAN MUST
LEARN TO STAND UP AND SPEAK FOR HERSELF.
I have witnessed a mentally sick mother
cackle at her crying child’s plea to seek
treatment for her illness. ‘No, you’re the one short, even for a Filipina girl her age.
who is sick!’ screamed the mother. I found
comfort in other abusive relationships until
I educated myself about schizophrenia, and
tried to speak about it openly to help remove from school. She was 13 then. We live
the stigma of mental illness.
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a teenager and did not do anything
about it because I was afraid and
ashamed. No matter how remote
it was in the past, it is just as
traumatizing to think about it
today as it was then. This should not
have to happen to anyone, especially
to young girls or boys.
Her name was Rhea. She was dark,
narrow-eyed, her hair was very short,
thick, coarse and very black. Her bangs
almost covered her eyes. She was
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was raped as she was walking home
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CLOCKWISE: Ludy’s swearing-in ceremony: Commissioner, Jersey
City Training and Employment officiated by Jersey City Mayor Glenn
D. Cunningham (left); Roy Corrales (right) assisting. • Ludy and Roy
with their two daughters Christine and Carol. • Ludy as Parade Grand
Marshal (PAFCOM)
LEFT TO RIGHT ON THE NEXT PAGE: Gary Yamashita, Gloria
Yamashita, CLO’s 2006 Top Producer, New York Consul General Cecille
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Rebong, and Ludy Corrales during CLO’s 10th Anniversary and Holiday
Celebration, December 28, 2006. • Ludy and Roy celebrating their
35 years of marriage bliss. • Young Ludy at her graduation from the
University of the Philippines.
Meeting Lourdes “Ludy” Corrales for the
first time was like running into an old
friend. She even looked familiar. Her
warm, gracious manner and complete lack
of airs brought to mind some of the most
welcoming and inclusive Filipina women
I’ve known. Whatever it was, her
unaffected demeanor gave little clue to
her status as president and CEO of her own
company, respected Filipino-American
community leader, anti-domestic violence
advocate and now “The Vagina
Monologues” performer.
Reputed to be the first person and certainly
the first Filipina to be appointed honorary
deputy mayor of Jersey City, in 2004, Ludy
was also named 2004 Entrepreneur of t
he Year by the International Institute of
New Jersey, a 90-year-old organization that
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serves immigrants and celebrates their
achievements. Here, too, she was the
first Filipino-American to have been
so honored.
Ludy is of the national treasurer of
NaFFAA, the National Federation of
Filipino American Associations. She is on
the advisory board of Jersey City-based
Philippine-American Friendship
Committee. She was PAFCOM Chair and
Grand Marshal of its annual parade.
Her energy seems boundless. Just in the
last few weeks, she hosted a meeting to help
establish a New York chapter of the Filipina
Women’s Network (FWN), organized an
anti-domestic violence workshop in
response to the brutal death of Teris Casco,
a Filipina in Jersey City, and is rehearsing
Ludy
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for the New York City performance of
FWN’s all-Filipina “The Vagina
Monologues.”
The third of nine children and eldest
daughter of Bartolome Jimenez Payumo
of Jaen, Nueva Ecija and Caloma Chaves
Payumo of Cuenca, Batangas, Ludy didn’t
always feel poised and at home in her
own body.
“While growing up, I was skinny and had
big boobs. I felt very self-conscious of my
body, developed an inferiority complex and
was awkward and shy. I found ways to
improve myself – my skills – to avoid
attention to my body.” Ludy recalled,
painfully.
Growing up, Ludy says that luxuries were
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few in the Payumo household. Things like
a television or a refrigerator. Her father ran
a small photography shop and her mother
managed a pawnshop until caring for nine
children made it difficult to continue. Yet,
somehow they managed to send her to
good private Catholic schools, giving her
the solid academic foundation she needed
to get into the country’s highly competitive
and prestigious state university, the
University of the Philippines, where
learning was first-rate but tuition fees were
subsidized and affordable.
N
ot particularly sure what to
choose for her major, she went
for a business degree and
became a certified public
accountant “only because I wanted a
practical course whose principles I could
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apply in daily life,” recalls Ludy, whose
pragmatic choice of careers would
eventually lead to romance. She met Roy
Corrales, also a CPA, while working at
Carlos Valdes & Co., then the second largest
auditing firm in the Philippines. Roy,
now a state auditor with the New Jersey
Department of Education, has been
married to Ludy for 35 years and together
they have raised two daughters, Christine,
23 and Carol, 21, both university graduates
with promising careers.
L
udy appreciates the legacies of
both her parents. “I inherited my
father’s entrepreneurial spirit.
From my mother I inherited “lakas
ng loob.” My mother is from Batangas, a
very strong-willed woman—adventurous,
courageous. She liked to solve problems
and she had the determination to right
what is wrong. I am like my mother in
many ways.”
This adventurous problem-solver and
courageous righter of wrongs moved to the
U.S. with Roy in 1973— as a young, newly
married couple eager to pursue their
American Dream.
It was not what they thought it would be.
“In the ‘70s and ‘80s, I had difficulty
breaking the glass ceiling in the
multinational companies that I worked for,”
recalls Ludy. “I remember reading the book
Games Mother Never Taught Me just to
understand how corporate America is run.”
Ludy had a voracious appetite for learning,
another inherited trait from her father.
“Although underpaid and overworked,
whether it was bookkeeping, flow-charting,
writing an audit report, etc. I always told
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myself that time would come and I would
be able to use all these acquired skills
later on.”
That she did, becoming an auditor for
Johnson & Johnson’s global operations.
“I thought I was so “cool” traveling
worldwide on auditing gigs. But something
was missing.”
She later moved to ITT Defense. But in
1992, after the US signed an historic peace
treaty with the USSR, ITT Defense let go of
1000 employees.
“I was one of them,” recounts Ludy. “Since
I was working part-time as a loan officer in
a mortgage company in New Jersey, I
accepted the Branch Manager position for
their Paramus office, without salary and
benefits, just a commission.”
Ludy calls this decision “the defining
moment in my quest for success.” With her
regular paycheck, her security blanket gone,
“I had sleepless nights and nightmares,
fearing failure. I thought I am so over now.
I was so scared.”
Her decision proved to be inspired. “In a
year’s time, I doubled my earnings. In 1996,
I took the mortgage banker’s license exam
successfully...” That’s when she decided to
form her own company. In ten years, Ludy
grew the company and has expanded her
mortgage banking operations to the West
Coast, specifically in San Jose, CA.
Her professional success could not,
however, cover up a nagging feeling. “I felt
a big vacuum in my life. I felt my full
potential was not being utilized,” shares
Ludy. “…something was missing.”
A friend invited her to join the New Jersey
Chapter of the UP Alumni Association
becoming the organization’s president in
1989. During her term, she established a
self-sustaining scholarship program.
“We raised $12,300 as seed money for a
UPAA-NJ Scholarship Program. The
interest income finances full scholarships
I am so proud that the scholarship I started
has financed the education of young
Filipinos the last 16 years. ” Ludy says.
She had found what was missing in her life.
Serving the Filipino community gave her a
sense of joy that no amount of professional
achievement could generate. Ludy says that
as a volunteer, she experienced the
blessedness of giving. “Despite the crabby
attitude that one may experience working
with Filipinos, we as a people are the
warmest, the most hospitable, the
friendliest, and the easiest people to work
with. We are most accommodating, most
patient and most caring.”
That sense of identification and deep
appreciation of her people influenced her
swift response to the savage death of
Filipina Teris Casco at the hands of her
husband Edward in Jersey City. She
galvanized the Filipino community into
action expressing outrage at the brutality of
her death. “Teris did not have to die. We
need to reach out to women and girls to let
them know that there is help available. We
need to learn how to intervene in domestic
violence issues. We need to learn how to
become anti-violence advocates and peer
counselors for our Filipina sisters in abusive
situations. We need to collaborate with the
agencies and other organizations to address
this urgent issue. Most importantly, as a
community, we have to speak out and not
be ashamed and break the violence cycle in
our families, Ludy passionately explains.
Her involvement in FWN’s Filipinas
Against Violence campaign and her role in
the New York benefit performances of the
“The Vagina Monologues” and “Usaping
Puki” provided her with the resources to
take action. The truth is Ludy had personal
reasons.
S
he confides that one of her brothers
and his sons had abused their wives
in the Philippines. “My brother was
in the military and was verbally
abusive. When he and his first wife fought,
he would threaten her with a gun, pointing
it to her head. My parents had to intervene.
Their tumultuous marriage eventually
ended, but two of their three sons also
became abusive to their wives. One of
them beat his wife up so badly that she had
to move to a shelter to escape further
injury. The other son was into drugs and
beat up his wife as well. I took her in and
now she works for me. It is very sad.”
There is a picture that Ludy fondly shows to
friends. It’s of seven-year old Christine
winning the “Little Miss Ilocana” title in
1990. “That experience helped her discover
her Philippine heritage,” Ludy says.
“Christine tells people “I am proud to be a
Filipina.” She is very strong-willed like me.
No man can take advantage of her. I taught
her and her sister to protect themselves
from abusive relationships. Their Dad, in
35 years of marriage, has not laid a hand on
me. I am so proud of that.”
Ludy Corrales, successful businesswoman,
civic leader, anti-DV advocate, wife and
mother, is firm on this: “My philosophy is
that no woman deserves to be abused by a
man, despite [any] inadequacies as a wife,
lover or daughter.”
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Filipina Women’s Network and V-DAY present

V-DAY Filipina 2007
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Admission: $35, $50, $65, $100 (VIP) (in English and Tagalog)
comedy, and the spoken word highlighted by
the all-Filipina performances of Eve Ensler’s
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THE WOMAN WHO LOVED
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MONOLOGUES Genevieve Herreira, Luna
1430 HOURS Salaver, Bingo Marasigan Samala Tessie Zaragoza, Genevieve Genevieve Jopanda, Jane
Herreira Datangel, Christine M. Samala,
VAGINA HAPPY FACT INTERMISSION Jennifer S. Jimenez, Annalisa de
EXTRO – SAY IT Lena, and Cast
PA R T O N E Jennifer S. Jimenez PA R T T W O
(FOR THE COMFORT WOMEN)
FOREPLAY INTRO – I WAS THERE IN
INTRO – BECAUSE HE LIKED HANDPRINTS: THESE HANDS FILM CLIP ON COMFORT WOMEN
TO LOOK AT IT THE ROOM
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WELCOME
Christina M. Samala WOMEN AND GIRLS SMELL Marisa Marquez
Marily Mondejar Kathleen Ben, Angelina Cantada, I WAS THERE IN THE ROOM
BECAUSE HE LIKED TO Cindy Gruspe, Sharolyn Salas,
INTRODUCTION
LOOK AT IT
VAGINA WARRIOR AWARDS Luna Salaver, Sunny Dykwel
Owen Donnahoo, Mara Salazar, Perla De Jesus, Mara Salazar,
Owen Donnahoo Sunny Dykwel, Kathleen Prado
Nicole Maxali, Sharolyn Salas, INTRO – MY VAGINA WAS SPOTLIGHT MONOLOGUE:
Jennifer S. Jimenez, Jane Datangel, INTRO – I WAS 12, MY MOTHER MY VILLAGE Gibson, Christina Formento WHAT HAPPENED TO PEACE?
Christina M. Samala, Bingo SLAPPED ME Sunny Dykwel Stover, Marisa Marquez Maya Ong Escudero
Marasigan Christine Padilla
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INTRO – HAIR I WAS 12 MY MOTHER Kathleen Ben, Marisa Marquez Nicole Maxali, Luna Salaver Marily Mondejar
Marisa Marquez SLAPPED ME
EXTRO – MY VAGINA WAS INTRO – RECLAIMING CUNT CURTAIN CALL
Annalisa de Lena, Bingo Bingo Marasigan
HAIR MY VILLAGE
Marasigan, Nicole Maxali,
Tess Crescini Sharolyn Salas INTRO – THE LITTLE COOCHI RECLAIMING CUNT
Giovannie Pico, Genevieve
WEAR AND SAY
NOT-SO-HAPPY-FACT
SNORCHER THAT COULD
Jopanda    !
Luna Salaver, Kathleen Ben, Marisa Marquez Christine Padilla
Annalisa de Lena, Genevieve
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CROOKED BRAID Jimenez, Annalisa de Lena, Mara Al S. Perez
INTRO – THE WOMAN WHO
INTRO – THE FLOOD Genevieve Jopanda, Perla De Salazar, Kathleen Ben, Jane
Mara Salazar Jesus, Owen Donnahoo, Kathleen Datangel LOVED TO MAKE VAGINAS Bettina Santos Yap
HAPPY
Ben, Luna Salaver, Tess Crescini Elena B. Mangahas
THE FLOOD INTRO – SAY IT Angelina Cantada
Laureen Laglagaron

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Sunny Dykwel EXTRO – CROOKED BRAID (FOR THE COMFORT WOMEN)
Genevieve Herreira Luna Salaver Perla De Jesus
Rudy Asercion
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Sonia Delen
ANG AKING BAHA
Elena Mangahas
USAPING PUKI
1930 HOURS KIKI WORKSHOP
Bingo Marasigan, Kathleen Ben,
Christina Formento Stover
PA R T O N E
KATOTOHANANG PUKI:
Angelina Cantada
FOREPLAY
INTRO – PAGKAT GUSTO
MALIGAYANG BATI
NIYA ITONG TITIGAN
Marily Mondejar
Annalee S. Jimenez
INTRODUKSYON
PAGKAT GUSTO NIYA ITONG
Tess Crescini, Owen Donnahoo,
TITIGAN
Kathleen Ben, Bingo Marasigan,
Bingo Marasigan
Perla De Jesus, Mara Salazar,
Angelina Cantada, Kathleen INTRO – 12 YEARS OLD,
Prado Gibson SINAMPAL AKO NI NANAY
Tessie Zaragoza
INTRO – ANG KWENTONG
BUHOK 12 YEARS OLD. SINAMPAL
Tess Crescini AKO NI NANAY
Mara Salazar, Angelina Cantada,
ANG KWENTONG BUHOK
Owen Donnahoo, Kathleen Ben
Tess Crescini
ISANG HINDI NAKATUTU-
KUNG MABIBIHISAN /
WANG KATOTOHANANG PUKI
MAKAPAGSASALITA ANG
Jennifer S. Jimenez
IYONG PUKI, ANO ANG
ISUSUOT / SASABIHIN NITO? INTRO – TABINGING TRINTAS
Angelina Cantada
Perla De Jesus, Kathleen Prado
Gibson, Jane Datangel, Annalee
S. Jimenez, Christina M. Samala,
Sharolyn Salas
Tess Crescini, Annalee S.
Jimenez, Kathleen Prado Gibson,
Christina Formento Stover,
Owen Donnahoo, Sonia Delen
EXTRO – TABINGING
TRINTAS
ANG AKING PUKING GALIT
Angelina Cantada, Bingo
Marasigan
INTERMISSION
PA R T T W O
HANDPRINTS: THESE HANDS
WILL NOT HURT FILIPINA
WOMEN AND GIRLS
VAGINA WARRIOR AWARDS
INTRODUKSYON SA BOSNIA
Tess Crescini
ANG AKING PWERTA,
ANG AKING NAYON
Angelina Cantada, Kathleen Ben
EXTRO – ANG AKING
PWERTA, ANG AKING NAYON
INTRO – ANG AKING
MUNTING KALACHUCHI
Genevieve Jopanda
ANG AKING MUNTING
Jennifer S. Jimenez, Angelina
Cantada, Tess Crescini, Mara
Salazar, Owen Donnahoo, TINANONG NAMIN ANG
Bingo Marasigan ISANG ANIM NA TAONG
GULANG NA BATANG
INTRO – SABIHIN NINYO
BABAE
(PARA SA COMFORT
Teresa Gamboa, Jo-Ann Agcaoili
WOMEN)
Tess Crescini, Sonia Delen INTRO – ANG BABAENG
MAHILIG MAGPALIGAYA
SABIHIN NINYO (PARA SA
NG MGA PUKE
COMFORT WOMEN)
Genevieve Jopanda
Tessie Zaragoza, Kathleen Ben
ANG BABAENG MAHILIG
EXTRO – SABIHIN NINYO
MAGPALIGAYA NG MGA
(PARA SA COMFORT
PUKE
WOMEN)
Owen Donnahoo
FILM CLIP ON COMFORT
INTRO – NAROON AKO SA
WOMEN
LOOB NG SILID
ANO’NG AMOY MO? Kathleen Prado Gibson
Perla De Jesus, Jane Datangel, NAROON AKO SA LOOB
Christina M. Samala, Kathleen NG SILID
Ben, Sharolyn Salas, Angelina Christina Formento Stover, Tess
Cantada, Marisa Marquez,
Crescini, Annalee S. Jimenez
Nicole Maxali
SPOTLIGHT MONOLOGUE:
ANG AKING MAIKSING
ANONG NANGYARI SA
PALDA
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Mara Salazar
Lolita Kintanar
INTRO – PAGBAWI SA PUKI
FILIPINAS SPEAK OUT
Sonia Delen
Marily Mondejar
PAGBAWI SA PUKI
CURTAIN CALL
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FOREPLAY Thess Castillo, Christina
CROOKED BRAID Baal, Remy Aquino,
WELCOME Remy Aquino, Kaye Virginia Goodno
Marily Mondejar Gonzalez, Marisa Marquez,
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INTRO – HAIR RECLAIMING CUNT
Marie Matiko INTERMISSION Marie Matiko
HAIR PA R T T W O A SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL
P U B L I C A T I O N S Susan Ancheta WAS ASKED
HANDPRINTS:
WEAR AND SAY THESE HANDS WILL NOT INTRO – THE WOMAN
Kaye Gonzales, Bambi HURT FILIPINA WOMEN WHO LOVED TO MAKE
Bernales, Virginia Goodno, AND GIRLS VAGINAS HAPPY
Alison Goodno, Rosalinda Christina Baal
Rene M. Medina Medina Rupel, Thess
Castillo
VAGINA WARRIOR
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President / Owner LOVED TO MAKE
INTRO – THE FLOOD INTRO – MY VAGINA VAGINAS HAPPY
Jo Macaldo WAS MY VILLAGE Theresa Tantay-Wilson
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THE FLOOD
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MY VILLAGE IN THE ROOM
THE VAGINA WORKSHOP Virginia Goodno, Ludy Corrales
Marisa Marquez, Kristal R. Remy Aquino
Aliyas, Theresa Tantay- I WAS THERE IN
Wilson EXTRO – MY VAGINA WAS THE ROOM
MY VILLAGE Virginia Goodno,
VAGINA HAPPY FACT Rosalinda Medina Rupel
Bambi Bernales INTRO – THE LITTLE
COOCHI SNORCHER SPOTLIGHT MONOLOGUE:
INTRO – BECAUSE HE THAT COULD WHAT HAPPENED
LIKED TO LOOK AT IT Marie Matiko TO PEACE?
Susan Ancheta
THE LITTLE COOCHI FILIPINAS SPEAK OUT
BECAUSE HE LIKED SNORCHER THAT COULD Marily Mondejar
TO LOOK AT IT Alison Goodno, Marisa
Marisa Marquez Marquez, Jo Macaldo, CURTAIN CALL

INTRO – I WAS 12 MY Kristal R. Aliyas, Bambi

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Marasigan
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Bambi Bernales
FOREPLAY
INTRO – BECAUSE HE LIKED
WELCOME TO LOOK AT IT
Marily Mondejar Genevieve Jopanda
INTRODUCTION BECAUSE HE LIKED TO
Marisa Marquez, Theresa Tantay- LOOK AT IT
Wilson, Jo Macaldo, Thess Castillo, Christina Baal
Bambi Bernales, Remy Aquino,
Kathleen Ben, Bingo Marasigan INTRO – I WAS 12, MY MOTHER
SLAPPED ME
INTRO – HAIR Thess Castillo
Genevieve Jopanda
I WAS 12, MY MOTHER
HAIR SLAPPED ME
Christina Formento Stover Alison Goodno, Christina Baal,
Bambi Bernales, Bingo Marasigan
WEAR AND SAY
Kaye Gonzales, Christina NOT-SO-HAPPY-FACT
Goodno, Virginia Goodno, Virginia Goodno
Christina Baal, Jennifer S.
Jimenez, Sharolyn Salas INTRO – CROOKED BRAID
Christina Formento Stover
INTRO – THE FLOOD
Joe Macaldo CROOKED BRAID
MY ANGRY VAGINA
Theresa Tantay-Wilson,
Genevieve Jopanda
INTERMISSION
PA R T T W O
HANDPRINTS:
THESE HANDS WILL NOT HURT
FILIPINA WOMEN AND GIRLS
VAGINA WARRIOR AWARDS
INTRO – MY VAGINA
WAS MY VILLAGE
Jennifer S. Jimenez
MY VAGINA WAS MY VILLAGE
Christina Baal, Bingo Marasigan
EXTRO – MY VAGINA WAS
MY VILLAGE
INTRO – THE LITTLE COOCHI
SNORCHER THAT COULD
Sharolyn Salas
THE LITTLE COOCHI
SNORCHER THAT COULD
Alison Goodno, Marisa Marquez,
Christina Goodno, Bambi
SAY IT
(FOR THE COMFORT WOMEN)
Tessie Zaragoza, Bambi Bernales
EXTRO – SAY IT
(FOR THE COMFORT WOMEN)
FILM CLIP ON
COMFORT WOMEN
SMELL
Christina Goodno, Theresa
Tantay-Wilson, Remy Aquino,
Bambi Bernales, Thess Castillo,
Christina Baal, Virginia Goodno,
Jennifer S. Jimenez
MY SHORT SKIRT
Jo Mecaldo, Meny Aquino
INTRO – RECLAIMING CUNT
Marisa Marquez
RECLAIMING CUNT
Genevieve Jopanda,
Kathleen Ben
A SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL
WAS ASKED
INTRO – THE WOMAN WHO
LOVED TO MAKE VAGINAS
THE WOMAN WHO LOVED TO
MAKE VAGINAS HAPPY
Theresa Tantay-Wilson and Cast
INTRO – I WAS THERE IN
THE ROOM
Christina Goodno
I WAS THERE IN THE ROOM
Virginia Goodno, Tessie
Zaragoza, Christina Formento
Stover
SPOTLIGHT MONOLOGUE:
WHAT HAPPENED TO PEAC?
FILIPINAS SPEAK OUT
Marily Mondjear
CURTAIN CALL
W RI T E RS & TAG ALO G
T RAN S LAT I O N V- T E AM
Bernardo Bernardo
Bettina Santos Yap
Byumi Gonzales
Charmaine Mesina
Edna Murray
Elena Mangahas

> CASTING FOR THE ENGLISH AND TAGALOG SHOWS

ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Remy Aquino, Kaye Gonzales, HAPPY Elson Mondalbo
THE FLOOD Marisa Marquez, Jo Macaldo, Bernales, Jo Macaldo
Christina Baal Jei Africa
Tessie Zaragoza Thess Castillo, Bambi Bernales INTRO – SAY IT Joy San Andreas
(FOR THE COMFORT WOMEN) Kathleen Ben
EXTRO – CROOKED BRAID
Leah Laxamana
Rita Asilo
Sarah Jane Ilumin
Teresa Opaon Thompson
INTRO – ANG AKING BAHA Aquino, Christina Formento INTRO – SABIHIN NINYO

04/14
Kathleen Ben
ANG AKING BAHA
Tessie Zaragoza
USAPING PUKI KIKI WORKSHOP
7:00 PM
Bambi Bernales, Thess Castillo,
Kaye Gonzales
KATOTOHANANG PUKI:
PA R T O N E
Kaye Gonzales
FOREPLAY
INTRO – PAGKAT GUSTO
MALIGAYANG BATI
NIYA ITONG TITIGAN
Marily Mondejar
Christina Formento Stover
INTRODUKSYON
PAGKAT GUSTO NIYA ITONG
Kaye Gonzales, Bambi Benales,
TITIGAN
Thesa Castillo Jo Mercado,
Thess Castillo
Virginia Goodno, Jennifer S.
Jimenez, Kathleen Ben, Bingo INTRO – 12 YEARS OLD.
Marasigan SINAMPAL AKO NI NANAY
Virginia Goodno
INTRO – ANG KWENTONG
BUHOK 12 YEARS OLD, SINAMPAL
Remy Aquino AKO NI NANAY
Binigo Marasigan, Kathleen Ben,
ANG KWENTONG BUHOK
Bambi Bernales, Jo Cecaldo
Christina Formento Stover
ISANG HINDI NAKATUTU-
KUNG MABIBIHISAN /
WANG KATOTOHANANG
MAKAPAGSASALITA ANG
PUKI
IYONG PUKI, ANO ANG
Jennifer Jimenez
ISUSUOT / SASABIHIN NITO?
Bambi Bernales, Kaye Gonzales, INTRO – TABINGING TRINTAS
Remy Aquino, Thess Castillo, Tessie Zaragoza
Jennifer S. Jimenez, Sharolyn TABINGING TRINTAS
Salas, Virginia Goodno Genevieve Jopanda, Virginia
Goodno, Kaye Gonzales, Remy
Stover, Thess Castill
EXTRO – TABINGING
TRINTAS
ANG AKING PUKING GALIT
Kathleen Ben, Kaye Gonzales
INTERMISSION
PA R T T W O
HANDPRINTS: THESE HANDS
WILL NOT HURT FILIPINA
WOMEN AND GIRLS
VAGINA WARRIORS
INTRODUKSYON SA BOSNIA
Remy Aquino
ANG AKING PWERTA,
ANG AKING NAYON
Jennifer S. Jimenez, Bambi
Bernales
EXTRO – ANG AKING
PWERTA
INTRO – ANG AKING
MUNTING KALACHUCHI
Thess Castillo
ANG AKING MUNTING
KALACHUCHI
Bambi Bernales, Jo Macaldo,
Bingo Marasigan, Jennifer S.
Jimenez
Tessie Zaragoza
(PARA SA COMFORT
WOMEN)
Virginia Goodno
TINANONG NAMIN ANG
SABIHIN NINYO (PARA SA
ISANG ANIM NA TAONG
MGA COMFORT WOMEN)
GULANG NA BATANG
Remy Aquino,K athleen Ben,
Christina Formento Stover BABAE
INTRO – ANG BABAENG
EXTRO – SABIHIN NINYO
MAHILIG MAGPALIGAYA
(PARA SA MGA COMFORT
NG MGA PUKE
WOMEN)
Bambi Bernales
FILM CLIP ON COMFORT
WOMEN
ANG BABAENG MAHILIG
MAGPALIGAYA NG MGA
SABIHIN NINYO (PARA SA PUKE
MGA COMOFORT WOMEN) Remy Aquino
Remy Aquino, Kathleen Ben,
INTRO – NAROON AKO SA
Christine Romento
LOOB NG SILID
ANO’NG AMOY MO?
Kathleen Ben
Kaye Gonzales, Thess Castillo,
NAROON AKO SA LOOB
Jo Macaldo, Virginia Goodno,
NG SILID
Jennifer S. Jimenez, Sharolyn
Virginia Goodno, Tessie Zaragoza
Salas, Kathleen Ben, Bingo
Marasigan SPOTLIGHT MONOLOGUE:
ANONG NANGYARI SA
ANG AKING MAIKSING
KAPAYAPAAN?
PALDA
Kaye Gonzales FILIPINAS SPEAK OUT
Marily Mondejar
INTRO – PAGBAWI SA PUKI
Thess Castillo CURTAIN CALL
PAGBAWI SA SALITANG
PUKI
Bingo Marasigan

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 Al Bettina
2007 VAGINA WARRIORS PEREZ SAN TO S-YA P

“VAGINA WARRIORS: THE NEW REVOLUTION” CELEBRATES NEW ACTIVISTS AND LEADERS WHO ARE
WORKING TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY. VAGINA WARRIORS ARE THE
WOMEN AND MEN WHO HAVE OFTEN EXPERIENCED VIOLENCE PERSONALLY OR WITNESSED IT WITHIN THEIR
COMMUNITIES AND DEDICATED THEMSELVES TOWARD ENDING SUCH VIOLENCE THROUGH EFFECTIVE,
GRASSROOTS MEANS. THE FILIPINA WOMEN’S NETWORK IS PROUD TO HONOR SIX WOMEN AND MEN WHO
PERSONIFY COURAGE AND CONVICTION. THEY HAVE FACED AND OVERCOME ADVERSITY IN THEIR LIVES AND
ARE NOW ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN OR HEADING EFFORTS TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

B Y FAY O LY M P I A
AL S. PEREZ, San Francisco-based artist,
graphic designer, founder / owner of
Creative i Studio and civic leader is adding
a new title to his resume: Vagina Warrior.
It’s about time. Al has been supporting
FWN’s anti-domestic violence efforts and
volunteering his expertise in art direction
to the annual Vagina Monologues
production for years.
Pulling all-nighters, creating professional
layouts and original cutting edge designs
for the V-Diaries and promotional materials
for the show, Al is the darling of the FWN
leadership, his selfless and generous spirit
an inspiration to the all-volunteer cast
and crew.
With a thriving and highly regarded
graphic design studio serving some of the
biggest names in the corporate world,
and a killer schedule to match, Al guards
his time for community service and
involvement. He is President of the Filipino
American Arts Exposition, a highlight
of the San Francisco summer scene with its
Pistahan Parade and Festival which,
alone, is a full-time effort. Yet Al meets
his business commitments on time and
manages to give another hundred percent
to his civic activities.
In an interview with LBC Foundation’s
Kababayan Edition that honored him with
its March 2006 Kababayan Award, Al
explained his philosophy for giving back
to his community:
“I work with a lot of nonprofits and they
don’t have a lot of funding to begin with.
It’s my way of giving back. I may not be a
good public speaker. I may not know a lot
of things. But I know how to deliver
messages through the visual art.”
His designs for FWN’s V-Day campaigns
have powerfully captured the essence of
what the show and the movement is all
about—that it’s time to speak up and stop
the violence, especially because in his
home city of San Francisco, the number
of Filipina women dying because of
domestic violence is tragically high.
Until the violence stops, Al Perez is
committed to using his art to create a
world where homes are safe havens for
women, children and the rest of us.
BETTINA SANTOS-YAP is a Vagina
Warrior straight out of the trenches. While
a lot of us were still trying to get past the
V and P words, she was already performing
in the very first Pinay production of The
Vagina Monologues in 2004. She returned
to the Herbst Theatre stage for subsequent
performances each year and did her turn as
director in 2006 for both the San Francisco
and New York shows.
Currently president of CORA Kumares
(Community Overcoming Relationship
Abuse Filipino American Outreach Task
Force), Bettina had just joined CORA as a
founding member of Kumares when the
casting call for TVM went out a few
months later.
“The timing couldn’t have been better
as I’ve always loved the performing arts,”
recalls Bettina. “And now here’s this
opportunity to further reach out and
educate the Filipino-American community
about domestic violence which I’d been
learning about through my training
at CORA.”
Born and raised in Manila with Bachelor’s
degrees in Broadcast Communication from
the University of the Philippines and
Marketing from Golden Gate University,
Bettina works as a marketing consultant
for high-tech companies in the Silicon
Valley.
ELENA MANGAHAS’ journey toward
becoming a Vagina Warrior began in 2004
when FWN launched its first production of
The Vagina Monologues. It was my own
transformation that made me stay with the
production in the succeeding years,” says
Elena. “I acted, later directed and I am
continuing to spread the word that
unspoken violence does exist in our
immediate family and in our community.”
She laughingly labels herself a “driving
fool” for her frequent forays over the
Altamont Pass, shuttling between Stockton
and San Francisco to direct the The Vagina
Monologues and volunteer with FWN’s
other activities. Self-effacing yet willing
to step in with firm, wise leadership when
needed, this youngest of “Manangs”
quietly mentors and encourages younger
community members, the future of Filipino-
and other Asian-Americans ever on
her mind.
Her commitment to put an end to domestic
violence comes from her work of 25 years
in social services in the US, having had
hands-on work on broad issues from
inequity to mental health. Elena says,
“The one thing that tugs at me hard is
the abuse and exploitation of a human
being—of women trapped in domestic
violence and children witnessing the
misconduct of adults. In my work as a job
counselor for the youth population in my
local community I have touched the impact
of repressive cultural practices in certain
immigrant groups, the negative influence
of poor parenting and the lack of resources
for the youth’s emotional needs.”
With her full calendar, Elena Mangahas’
strategy for community involvement is
practical: “At present I put my mission
where my personal strengths take me—
having learned the use of theatre as an
enlightening medium from my work in the
70’s with the University of the Philippines
Repertory Company, and being able to
mentor girls into becoming organizers
who influence social action where truth is
inconvenient. Having FWN support this
mission makes it even more
extraordinary!”
It’s a safe bet that LAUREEN
DUMADAG LAGLAGARON has helped
more women emerge safely from abusive
relationships and more Filipinos work out
their immigration status than the average
person who is twice her age and has a
50% shorter name.
She worked with survivors of domestic
violence and human trafficking for two
years as a public interest attorney and
Equal Justice Works Fellow at Asian Pacific
Islander (API) Legal Outreach in San
Francisco, providing legal help free
of charge.
Now, this young Juris Doctor from UCLA
is taking the immigration stories of her
people and a substantial portfolio of
personal achievements and honors to
Washington, DC, having recently joined
the Migration Policy Institute at its new
National Center of Immigrant Integration
Policy.
“For the last decade,” says Laureen,
“I have aspired to be an advocate for
immigrant rights. I have traveled to the
Philippines to perform research on
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Laureen Perla Rudy
L AG L AG A RON
overseas workers. I’ve worked as a
demographer analyzing migration patterns
within the United States and entered law
school to become a legal advocate for
immigrant rights.”
Born and raised in diverse Vancouver, BC,
Laureen discovered first hand what it was
like to be an immigrant of color only when
she moved to Boston as a high school senior, own husband after she finally told him she
where her being Filipina became a problem
for the first time in her life. Yet she says
“I was fortunate. I didn’t feel less than
anyone else did. I felt entitled, I felt I
belonged, I was confident.”
Laureen wants to set an example for young
girls. “I want them to dream big, think big,” the most.
she emphasizes, remembering not seeing
anyone in law school “who was like me.”
“I want to mentor younger Filipino women
or men who want to go into corporate law.
I want to tell the lessons I’ve learned,” insists 15-year sentence in prison, she and her
Laureen who also believes that it is in our
power to change the culture of violence
against women. This Vagina Warrior dreams
big and works hard to make those dreams
come true: “An America where women and
children will live in safety in their own
homes.”
The name “Perla” is Filipino/Spanish for
“pearl.” Some of the most beautiful and
valuable pearls in the world come from the
seas surrounding the Philippine archipelago.
Her name is a metaphor for all Filipina
women, each one uniquely beautiful and of
value beyond measure. PERLA DE JESUS,
independent Bay Area businesswoman,
beauty expert, Vagina Warrior, knows that
her worth as a Filipina woman, as her own
person, is beyond measure.
It has been a long and painful journey for
FILIPINA WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE
DE JES US
Perla to get to this point in her life and her
participation in this year’s The Vagina
Monologues is an important milestone.
She survived an abusive 18-year marriage.
She survived her husband’s substance abuse
and violent temper. She survived having a
knife at her throat, a gun to her head. She
survived being stabbed repeatedly by her
was leaving.
“Trying to leave is the most lethal time,”
says long-time anti-domestic violence
advocate Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of
California’s Third District Court of Appeals.
It’s when abused women need help
So it was for Perla whose recovery after the
stabbing, at San Francisco General Hospital’s
Trauma Unit, took several months. Since
then, with her erstwhile abuser serving a
children have walked down the path of
healing together.
When her friends took her to see The Vagina
Monologues / Usaping Puki, Perla discovered
a new calling. She says, “I have found
courage to be part of the movement
in creating awareness of domestic violence.
I want to reach out to women who may be
experiencing the kind of abuse and violence
I went through.”
As Perla performs tonight, you might hear
the catch in her throat, see the glint of tears
in her eyes and feel an emotional response
rising in your own gut. You’ll know it’s not
because she’s a veteran of the stage or a
trained actor.
It’s because Perla is a survivor who wants to
let other women know that they are pearls
of great worth that should be cherished and
ASERCION
LW]_dWMWhh_ehi(&&,
Beverly Upton, Executive Director,
San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium &
Partners Ending Domestic Violence
Dorka Keehn,
Chair, CCSF Justice & Courage Oversight Panel
Gloria Megino Ochoa,
Deputy Chief Counsel,
California Senate Judiciary Committee
Imelda Oppenheim,
protected. Moreover, her experience shows Trainer, Excel Personal Training
that a woman can rise from abuse, take hold Jonah Oliverio,
of the resiliently creative power every human Community Educator, Community Overcoming
being possesses and build a beautiful life for Relationship Abuse (CORA)
her self and for those she loves. Ligaya Hattari,
Project Manager, California Indian Manpower
RUDY ASERCION may be a War Memorial Consortium
Commissioner but he is also a peacemaker.
Sarah Jane Ilumin,
He has come to be known as one who works Vice President, Yashi Okita Design
to bring people together, heal rifts and work
together to achieve shared goals. He has Tess Crescini,
Broker, RW-Heritage Homes & Investments
worked tirelessly to gain equity for the
Filipino Veterans of World War II and has
supported many of the Filipino-American
LW]_dWMWhh_ehi(&&+
organizations of the Bay Area, including
Filipina Women’s Network and its V-Day Kamala D. Harris,
Filipina production of The Vagina
District Attorney, San Francisco
Monologues. Giovannie Pico,
Actor
Rudy admits to a bit of trepidation about
Gloria Ramos,
the new title the women of his community Elementary School Teacher
are conferring on him, but only because San Francisco Commission and Department on
some people still stumble over the V and P the Status of Women
words and miss the point entirely, blinded to Rita Villavicencio Schmidt,
the liberating truth by their outrage or Vice President, The Lodge at Blue Lakes
embarrassment. His choice to stand with
Velma Roset Veloria,
Filipina women against domestic violence former State Representative for District 11,
through the V-Day movement despite Washington (four terms)
disapproval from certain quarters.
It troubles Rudy that so many Filipina LW]_dWMWhh_ehi(&&*
women in America suffer and die from
Blesilda Ocampo,
domestic violence. “It used to be that men Child Support Officer, Dept. of Child Support
protected their women but the deterioration Services, City and County of San Francisco
of family values together with our own
Cherie Querol Moreno,
insecurity changed everything. In my own Community Outreach Coordinator, CORA
family,” he affirms, “men do not hit women.” (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse)
And so he continues fighting for equity and Clara Tempongko,
Mother of Claire Tempongko
justice. Says Rudy, “I would like to be
remembered as someone who only needed Genevieve Dwyer,
the air that I breathe, the water that I drink,
President, Genevieve’s Corporation
the food that I eat and the love of my wife Tisa Mendoza,
TV show producer
and kids.”
Vangie Canonizado Buell,
Author, Editor, Speaker
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F i l i p i n a W o m e n ’s N e t w o r k

FILIPINA SUMMIT
FILIPINA POWER 2012: FILIPINAS NOW!
T H U, O C T 25 – S AT, O C T 27, 2007
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W A S H I N G T O N D . C .

A LEARNING JOURNEY TO SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS:

THE CENTER OF POWER
More than a field trip,
symposium or forum,
Learning Journeys
immerse us in the
reality – and long-range
implications – of the
politics of government.
These experiences enable
us to deepen, accelerate,
and internalize our own
learning about the business
V - D AY F I L I P I N A 2007
» Conversations with
A D D E N D U M
women elected officials
» Navigating the halls of
the Capitol
» Merienda at The White Filipina Women’s Network and V-DAY present
House V-DAY Filipina 2007
» Filipina Power 2012: An All-Filipina Benefit Production of
The Game Plan
» Recognition of the 100
Most Influential Filipina %6% %.3,%2—3

of government, advocacy
and policy-making.
Learning Journeys
reflect our conviction that
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Women in the U.S.
FILIPINAS OF THE FUTURE:
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government changed, or is
it our understanding of
the politics of government
that has changed?

”5SAPING 0UKI •
For more information: www.ffwn.org/FilipinaSummit5.htm

Nationwide Search for the 100 Most Influential

Filipina Women in the U.S.
FWN invites nominations in
the following categries:
» Founders & Pioneers
» Innovators & Thought Leaders
» Policymakers & Visionaries
» Behind the Scenes Leaders
» Emerging Leaders & Builders
» “Nicole”
Nominations are accepted until
Wednesday, May 30, 2007.
Online submissions only. To
request access to the nomination
site, and for corporate
sponsorships, please contact
FWN by sending an email to
filipina@ffwn.org.
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AGAINST FILIPINA WOMEN AND GIRLS
AS PART OF THE WORLDWIDE V-DAY CAMPAIGN
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P H I L I PP I NE CE NTE R , NE W YO R K CI TY
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“V AGINA W ARRIORS : T HE N EW R EVOLUTION ” CELEBRATES NEW ACTIVISTS AND LEADERS WHO
ARE WORKING TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE F ILIPINO COMMUNITY . V AGINA W ARRIORS
ARE THE WOMEN AND MEN WHO HAVE OFTEN EXPERIENCED VIOLENCE PERSONALLY OR WITNESSED IT
WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITIES AND DEDICATED THEMSELVES TOWARD ENDING SUCH VIOLENCE THROUGH
EFFECTIVE GRASSROOTS MEANS . T HE F ILIPINA W OMEN ’ S N ETWORK IS PROUD TO HONOR FOUR WOMEN
IN THE N EW Y ORK W ASHINGTON DC AREAS WHO PERSONIFY COURAGE AND CONVICTION . T HEY
AND
ARE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN OR HEADING EFFORTS TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS .

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Filipina Women’s Network Who’s Who Stage Assistants:

(FWN) is a nonprofit association ABIGAIL RICARTE FEATU RED C AS T MEMBER:
in the Cast Student
for women of Philippine Training Coordinator Outreach Coordinator and Crew Temple University
ancestry. FWN strives to enhance My Sister’s Place Community Empowerment Program Theresa Tantay-Wilson is the proud founder of UNITY
MAUREEN RICARTE
public perceptions of Filipina CONNECT NYC CECILLE B. REBONG Senior Financial Theatre & inheritor of Student Health Advocates at Rutgers-
Consul General Analyst
women’s capacities to lead;

Laureen Venessa
Consulate General of the AIG Global Energy Newark (interactive & health/social justice educational peer
change biases of Filipina women’s Philippines – New York superheroes) but she is happiest battling injustices with
JASON RICARTE
leadership abilities; and foster the M AN Z ANO CARMEN FLORES Student one arm while embracing her daughter, Madeleine, with the
entry of Filipina women Designer Lahser High School
into positions of leadership in L AG L AG A RON The Scrapping Garden
Photographer:
other. She could not accomplish this feat without the loving

all sectors. For more info,
visit www.ffwn.org.
Filipina Women’s Network
P. O. Box 192143
San Francisco, CA 94119
Phone: 415. 278. 9410
Fax: 415. 840. 0655
Email: Filipina@ffwn.org
www.ffwn.org.
Attorney, Migration Policy Institute
National Center of Immigration
Integration Policy
ALEYAH NAY GANI RICARTE and unrelenting support of her “sweetest husband,” Doug
Student, Helen Hayes Business Owner
Performing Arts Center Gani Ricarte (Bob), her father who has masterfully tackled “Lolo-hood,” her
Photography brother and his partner whose wisecracks keep her painfully
Stage Manager:
JULMAN TOLENTINO Videographer: laughing, her dearest family & friends, and her wonderful
Executive Director LUDOVIC JOLIVET
Sumisibol Movement Artist students at RU!
OUR HE A RTFE LT T HA NKS: Annalisa Viray • Carmen Flores, Philippine American Friendship
Committee (PAFCOM) • Ed and Cecile Pinos, Christine’s Bakeshop • Edna Murray • Elno & Diana
Rivera, Wuzz Up Cafe • Elrik Jundis • Fritzie’s Bakeshop • Gladee Villarba • Guendolyn Rey •
Board Member and former Executive Helen Castillo, Philippine American Friendship Committee (PAFCOM) • Janekim Ancheta • Ligaya
Director, Filipino American Human
Services Inc. (FAHSI) Villarba • Ludy Corrales, CLO Funding • Lynette De Guzman, Bamboo Grill • Nina Eugenio • Paul
Director of Programs, National Asian Stewart • Richard Sy • Rico & Maria Soriano, Wuzz Up Cafe • Rosalinda Medina Rupel, Clifford
American Society of Accountants, Inc. Chance LLP • Rosario Villarba • Sandy & Bert Jimenez, Dunkin’ Donuts • Starbucks
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Making Clear the Difference
Between Sex and Rape
What would it be like to play football,
soccer, basketball, golf, tennis, or any
other sport if the rules weren’t clearly
defined? Wouldn’t there be constant
disputes, arguments, and conflicts?
It’s sort of like that when it comes to
sexual violence. We’re surrounded daily
by TV shows, music, magazines, video
games, and movies that blur the lines
between sex and rape, and so we
all need some clear and shared
understandings of the differences.
These aren’t all the rules, but here are
some to help you start drawing the lines
between sex and rape:
RULE 1: Know the legal
definition of rape. Although there
are many definitions, often varying from
state to state, most legal systems define
rape as any form of penetration (oral,
anal, or vaginal) without consent and by
force or threat of force. Rape is not bad
sex. It is an act of power over someone.
RULE 2: Look beyond the legal
definition. While the legal definition
clarifies what rape is in a court of law,
it doesn’t address all acts of violation as
they apply to the broader term of sexual
violence. Sexually violent behavior can
be physical (grabbing, groping, touching
in non-consensual ways), emotional
(playing mind games) and verbal (using
verbal pressure).
RULE 3: Know the legal
definition of consent. As with
rape, there are different definitions of
consent, often varying from state to
state. But most legal systems define
consent as explicit assent to a particular
sexual act. An assumption of consent
is not enough.
RULE 4: Look beyond the legal
definition. The legal definition of
consent doesn’t capture what good
sex is all about: mutual pleasure and
enthusiasm. Better communication –
listening to the other person, stating
desires clearly, and asking when a
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situation in unclear–will increase that
pleasure and will ensure safe and T H U, O C T 25 – S AT, O C T 27, 2007
healthy sex for everyone. W A S H I N G T O N D . C .
RULE 5: Accept when someone A LEARNING JOURNEY TO SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS:
withdraws consent. Even after THE CENTER OF POWER
» Conversations with
someone has given consent, that person More than a field trip, women elected officials
can withdraw it at any time. It’s nice to symposium or forum,
» Navigating the halls of
think that we all know exactly what we Learning Journeys
the Capitol
want and are going to want, but sex immerse us in the
and sexual situations are sometimes reality – and long-range » Merienda at The White
implications – of the House
confusing and anxiety-provoking. We all politics of government.
deserve the right to change our minds. » Filipina Power 2012:
These experiences enable The Game Plan
us to deepen, accelerate,
RULE 6: Watch alcohol and drug and internalize our own » Recognition of the 100
intake. Alcohol and drugs can affect learning about the business Most Influential Filipina
people’s ability to decide whether they of government, advocacy Women in the U.S.
want to be sexual with someone. If and policy-making. FILIPINAS OF THE FUTURE:
a person is drunk and incapable of Learning Journeys
reflect our conviction that Has the politics of
consenting with full awareness, wait ÓB!eftl!jt!b!ebohfspvt! the most powerful learning government changed, or is
until you both are in a state of mind qmbdf!gspn!xijdi! occurs through experience it our understanding of
to enthusiastically and clearly say yes. up!wjfx!uif!xpsme/Ô and interaction, not from the politics of government
An incapacitated person (drunk, !Ñ!Kpio!MfDbssf books or speeches. that has changed?
passed out, on drugs) cannot
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legally give consent.
RULE 7: Be Clear about body
language. Or be clear that body
language can be unclear. Even though
it’s the most common way of
communicating consent, it’s unreliable.
Does someone kissing you mean that
person wants to have sex? Putting a
hand on your knee? How do you know?
Can you read minds? It’s necessary to
rely on both body language and spoken
language. Ask before you act.
RULE 8: Grasp the
consequences. The aftermath of rape
starts with the survivor and expands
outward, affecting more and more
people. Because sexual assault is a
violation it causes trauma that can
include symptoms such as sleeplessness,
nightmares, lack of appetite, and an
inability to concentrate. Noticing these
symptoms in the survivor will in turn
affect friends, relatives, co-workers,
and others.
www.mencanstoprape.org
© 1998, 2001 Men Can Stop Rape
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Calendar Project
T
he Life History Calendar Project (LHCP)
is the first research project that seeks
Filipino, Indian and Pakistani women
as participants to understand women’s
experiences with abuse across their
lifespan, their efforts to reach out for help and
the responses of individuals and organizations
from which they seek help. Funded by the
National Institute of Justice, the research
project is headed by Dr. Mieko Yoshihama
of the School of Social Work, University of
Michigan and Firoza Chic Dabby, Director of
the Institute of Domestic Violence, Asian &
Pacific Island American Health Forum
(APIAHF) in San Francisco.
Who can participate?
Filipino, Indian and Pakistani women who are
18-60 years old; who have experienced abuse
in current or past relationships, such as being
hit, kicked, pushed or slapped; been forced to
have sex against their will; followed or stalked
after a relationship ended; harassed with
phone calls, text messages or e-mails; and
living in the Bay Area at the time of the abuse.
What will I do if I agree to participate?
All interviews will be conducted by trained
APIAHF interviewers and will be conducted at
a time and location both safe and convenient
to you. You will receive a $40 token of
appreciation for your participation.
Little Coochi Snorcher,
Continued from page 18
and to open the collective eyes of our community
to realize the wonder, importance and power
of women, their vaginas, sexuality, equal rights,
women’s rights and human rights.
We are trying to create a world in which no
woman is afraid to come forward with her
experiences. It is a sad state to be in when only
about 42% of rapes are reported. The day that
every woman comes forward to report abuse,
assault and rape is the day that the fear and
shame prevalent in our culture ends. Only on this
day can we hope to end the violence. Violence will
not end until it is openly talked about. To silence
a voice is to say that the story it tells is not
important. It is time we allow every woman to
feel that her life and experiences are important
and worthy of being shared. When a woman is
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experiences of abuse. There are no right or
wrong answers. We are interested in your
opinions, feelings and experiences.
Is there a choice about participating?
Yes! Participation is completely voluntary.
You may refuse to answer any or all of the
questions.
What happens to the answers?
Interviewers are trained to record your
answers objectively and accurately. They have
a professional duty to keep everything said in
an interview confidential. All information
that identifies individuals, such as name and
address, is separated from the forms on which
the answers are recorded.
If you are interested, please contact the
Calendar Study at 1-800-354-0386.
If you are eligible to participate, you will
be contacted by a professionally trained
interviewer to schedule an appointment.
Kathy Moore, Project Coordinator;
Shalini Bijlani (English / Hindi / Urdu) and
Tessie Zaragoza (English / Tagalog)
interviewers.
ashamed of her body and her sexuality, she is
undoubtedly ashamed to come forward when
they have been violated. The fight for open and
constructive dialogue must continue, even when
it is not comfortable or “politically correct.”
The outrage that this monologue should generate
is over the horrible, oppressive and violent
experiences this woman had as a young girl,
not the positive, affirming experience she had
as a young woman. Something is terribly wrong
about our culture when there is more outrage and
concern over a sexual event involving two women
than over a violent rape or assault.
Eve Ensler correctly maintains that this monologue
is just as essential as the others. “I would never
take the ‘Coochi Snorcher’ piece out because
I’m not ashamed of the ‘Coochi Snorcher’ piece. It
reflects a point of view, a character, a story. That’s
what art is.”
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San Francisco Cast

Conocimiento
BY CHRISTINA M. SAMALA
Who’s Who
in the Cast
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The 2007 San Francisco cast and when we came together to share ANGELINA CANTADA ANNALEE S. JIMENEZ
crew is a very special group of our selves and learn about each Photographer & Station Agent,
Video Producer, BART
strong, fiercely dedicated, and other. A large portion of a Layaco Productions
deeply spirited individuals. These rehearsal was dedicated to
ladies, along with some exceptional Conocimiento, to a process that
=08C
men, prove the adage that the afforded each participant the
whole is greater than the sum of opportunity to reflect, share, and
its parts. Each cast member brings learn about herself. In the end,
their background and unique through sharing individuality, we
personal histories to the stage, came to learn and celebrate our
culminating in a gripping commonalities and our community.
production that they hope will
ANNALISA DE LENA BINGO MARASIGAN CHRISTINE V. PADILLA CINDY GRUSPE
speak to many communities and What we experienced that day Actor / Project Manager, Bodyworker, Field Representative, Art Therapy Graduate
to a diverse audience. may be hard to duplicate, but we InsightExpress Holistic Health Coach, Liaison to the Filipino Student,
Healing Hope Massage Community, Notre Dame de Namur
can certainly share it. I hope you Therapy Services Rep. Tom Lantos (CA-12)
While their differences as enjoy getting to know us a little
individuals make for compelling better.
performances, they all believe that
the show’s success will be rooted We are…
in their coming together as a Perla, Bingo, Cindy, Owen. Nicole,
group, presenting a united front in Giovannie, Luna, Ken. Genevieve,
the fight to end domestic violence Annalisa, Mara, Tess. Jennifer,
against women and girls. Sharolyn, Jane. Christina, Tessie, =08C
Kathleen. CHRISTINA M. SAMALA CHRISTINA FORMENTO GENEVIEVE HERRERIA JANE DATANGEL, RN
It has been a pleasure and an Creative Director, STOVER Executive Assistant, Actor / Clinical Safety
honor to get to know each person Who or what we’re Maiden Lane Magazine Assistant Vice President, Venture Capital Firm Associate,
Bank of America Genentech
involved in this production – named after?
learning the stories, travails, hopes, Our parents. Saints. A waterfall
and fears that have provided in Mindanao. The moon. =08C
impetus for each cast member Grandparents. A character from
to participate in The Vagina “The Brady Bunch.” Our father’s
Monologues, FWN, and the V-Day liking for a mode of transportation.
Campaign. A name in a book printed in 1979.
“Virtuous people.” Two given
Their reasons for participating may names married to become one. =08C =08C
differ from person to person but The name of a game that is also JENNIFER S. JIMENEZ, JO-ANN AGCAOILI KATHLEEN BEN KATHLEEN PRADO
M.S., MFTI Assistant Vice President, Office Manager, GIBSON
their dedication to the goal is clear an exclamation of satisfaction or Registered Marriage and Business Support Avalon Global Asset Office Manager,
and unified. This group will not be surprise at a sudden or positive Family Therapist Intern Banc of America Leasing Management, LLC Real Estate Services
satisfied until violence against event or outcome. “Spirit.” Community Overcoming University of California
Relationship Abuse (CORA)
women and girls stops; until The love interest in an English
women world wide can live safely historical novel set in the 12th
and freely. Century.

Aligning our efforts for The Vagina
Monologues, FWN, and V-Day was
only possible once we gained an
understanding of one another.
The greatest tool in this was the
experience of Conocimiento –
a Filipino cultural phenomenon
that manifested itself on a day
How or when we knew our
parents were proud of us.
The day we were born. When we
finished high school. When we
graduated from college; when we LOLITA KINTANAR LUNA SALAVER MARA SALAZAR
Director, Canon Kip Senior Public Information Event Planner;
got our masters. When they told Senior Center Officer, Office Manager
us. When we were quoted on the Episcopal Community Bay Area Air District Accounting Offices of
Services Petzner & Associates
front page of The Examiner. We’ve

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always known and our parents and hot chocolate. Hospitality.
are forever proud. Generosity.

What we fear most. Have we experienced or

Speaking in front of a big group of witnessed violence?
MAYA ONG ESCUDERO NICOLE MAXALI OWEN DONNAHOO PERLA DE JESUS people! Not finishing a master’s With the exception of two people,
Executive Director, Actor; Writer; Online Marketing, Owner thesis. Discontentment with life. we have all witnessed or
Ayala Foundation - USA Humanitarian, Sun Microsystems / Perla’s Hair Studio
Breathe California Photographer, Attracting fear. Being successful experienced violence. A few of
Owen Photographie beyond our wildest, wackiest us are even survivors of domestic
imagination. Being homeless. violence. The earliest we’d been
=08C
Having something bad happen to exposed to violence was at
our children. Our parents growing age four.
older. Not reaching or living up
to our full potential. Not being Have you faced resistance
enough – smart enough, pretty with your participation
enough, thin enough, rich in V-Day?
enough… Loneliness. Rodents. “I have encountered resistance
SHAROLYN SALAS SONIA T. DELEN SUNNY DYKWEL TERESA GAMBOA
Tutor, Senior Vice President, Realtor and Student, Cockroaches. Loss of financial with my participation in V-Day
TALKLINE Family Support Banc of America Leasing Community Leader Notre Dame des Victoires independence. Drowning. We fear because I am a theater virgin.
Services
not using our talents or gifts to I have been working through it
serve the world in this life. by sharing the purpose –
awareness of domestic violence –
One thing you’d never guess with others.”
about me.
Who’s Who I have a 10 year old son. I’m “Sometimes, but it’s fun [to
in the Crew scared of sneezing because I pee. oppose it].”
I am Type II Bi-Polar. My nickname
=08C is Iron Fist. I fire walked with “No resistance. Nicole forwarded
TESS CRESCINI TESSIE ZARAGOZA Director: Anthony Robbins. I’m shy. the email and I though it was a
Broker / Owner, President, KEN MARQUIS I attended The Wharton School. great opportunity to be a part of
Realty World-Heritage Organ Donor Rights Technical Director,
Homes & Investments Network George P. Johnson Co. I don’t know how to swim. this production and campaign.”
You’d never guess my age.
A friend said she wouldn’t watch
Leaders who have The Vagina Monologues because
inspired us, who continue the title is vulgar; more
to inspire us… specifically, the word “vagina.”
My mom. Billie Holiday. Wayne I asked her, “What should we
Dyer, author of Oriah Mountain call it? It’s a part of our body…
Dreamer. Mother Teresa. Gandhi. and if this is offensive to you,
=08C Deepak Chopra. Entrepreneurs. what does that say about you?
Director: Director: Rehearsal Manager: Stage Manager: Jesus. Patrick Salaver. Pope John Honestly.”
GIOVANNIE PICO GENEVIEVE V. JOPANDA SONIA T. DELEN KAI DELEN-BRIONES Paul II. My music teacher, Mr.
Actor; Founder, General Manager, Senior Vice President, Amateur Golfer
“May K:” The Giovannie SF Bay Area FlexCar Banc of America Leasing Thornton. “No resistance. Only awe and
Pico Foundation pride and support.”
Filipino customs, Filipino
traditions we want to pass “My husband’s friend said he’d

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on to others. been to Vagina Monologues and
Mano po. Respect for elders. everyone’s ‘gay’.”
Cooking, our cuisine. Eating
together! The value of family and “Yes and I have handled the
togetherness. Taking pride in one’s resistance by having pride [in
heritage. Pakikipagkapwa-tao. what we are working towards]
Music Director: Event Planner: Hair & Make-Up Artistry: Spirituality. Noche Buena. and with fearlessness.”
CHRISTINA M. SAMALA EVELYN LULUQUISEN DON R. SANTOS
Creative Director, Human Resources Business Manager, Bayanihan – helping one another,
Maiden Lane Magazine Manager, La Prairie, Bloomingdale’s helping your community. Suman
UC Berkeley

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New York Cast
Conocimiento
BY CHRISTINA BAAL
New York rehearsals for V-Day
Filipina gave all the cast members
(who affectionately began many
cast emails with the greeting,
“Hi Kapukis!”) the chance to not
only learn lines and blocking, but
to bond as a group of empowered
Pinay women against violence.
To help this process along, we
were asked to answer a series of
questions about ourselves and to
share our answers with the group.
We discovered that we had our
very own set of Puki Happy,
Not-So-Happy, and Downright-
Silly facts.
First, some Puki Happy Facts from
a cast that can only be described
as a passionate, driven and multi-
talented group:
Kaye says she lives by the motto
“Dream your dream then do your
best. Never rest until that dream
is yours.” This motto keeps her
motivated in the face of challenge.
Jo must live by the same words
because after years of denying her
dreams, she is now studying
theatre at Harvard.
Marisa says that her biggest fear
in life is “settling.”
“Even as children we were over
achievers,” says Bambi whose
parents were proud that she
always made honor roll. Similarly,
Franklin, our honorary kapuki, won
a spelling bee against older kids
when he was just seven.
The cast, a mix of immigrant, first
generation, and mixed race Filipina
women, express pride in many
Filipino traditions and discuss what
we would like to pass on to future
generations.
Alison says that one of her favorite
aspects of our culture is our food,
to which everyone agrees, of
course. Theresa says that merienda
is one of her personal favorites and
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in the Cast
is pleased that no matter what
time of day, there is always time to ALISON DOODNO BAMBI BERNALES CHEELY ANN SY
eat a small meal with friends and Student Designer, Principal, Director of
The Scrapping Garden Research & Knowledge
family. Virginia says that she would Management, RWD
love to pass on the cultural dances Executive Search
of the Philippines. Christina B.
dreams of passing down Tagalog
to her future children and wishes
she had learned the language as a
child (she’s working on it now!).
Others say they want to pass on
strong family values and
bayanihan.
CHRISTINA BAAL CHRISTINA GOODNO JO MACALDO KAYE GONZALES
Kristal thinks that the world would Social Worker / Theatre Student Student / Actor, Actor
Artist; Cabrini Immigrant Harvard University
be a happier place if everyone gave Services
each other pasalubong. Marisa
summed it up by saying that she
wants to teach future generations
to “eat, share with, and love
 
everyone as if they were family”
the way she was taught to do.
Kristal also appreciates how our
culture teaches all of us to respect
our elders. Respect certainly seems
to be due them for the many KRISTAL R. ALIYAS LUDY CORRALES
Teacher, New York President & CEO
important lessons we have learned Department of Education CLO Funding
from our parents and grandparents.
Bambi says her parents taught her
the importance of communication =08C
in all relationships, saying, “Don’t
let the day end without talking,
if you’re having problems.” Kaye’s
parents taught her to always,
“finish what you started.”
Virginia’s grandmother urged
her to “keep God in your life,”
a message she has passed down to MARIE MATIKO MARISA MARQUEZ ROSALINDA MEDINA REMY AQUINO
Actress; Founder, Vivace Actor RUPEL Actor, Model,
her own daughter Alison. Franklin Performing Arts School, Technical Services Photographer
reports that his well-educated Los Angeles Librarian, Clifford
mother always stressed the Chance Law Firm
importance of going to school.
And then there are the
Downright-Silly facts.
You might not have guessed it but
Bambi loves anime and Playstation
and says she sometimes has to
fight her five-year-old son for the
PS2 controller. Kristal’s guilty
pleasure is soap operas which she SUSAN ANCHETA THERESA TANTAY- THESS CASTILLO VIRGINIA GOODNO
Freelance WILSON Research Associate Homemaker
claims qualifies as acting research Actress / Director / Director, Health RWD Executive Search
for her monologues. Choreographer / Teacher, Promotion, Rutgers
Energy Fitness University-Newark
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Kaye admits that she can “burp like a
man!” She confesses that she once
silenced a restaurant with her burping
Who’s Who prowess, at which point her husband
in the Crew proudly exclaimed, “That’s my wife!”
Marissa and Christina B. admit they
have similar gastrointestinal problems /
Event Planner: Producer: talents and suggest that they get
CHEELY ANN SY FRANKLIN RICARTE together and drink several carbonated
Event Planner Strategy Consultant beverages just to see what happens.
and her body and says that “Even
though my mind feels like it’s ready to
share my story and identity, my body is
not yet ready.” She has made helping
other female survivors of violence her
life’s work and hopes that the stories
of the women in Eve Ensler’s play bring
her and all women closer to healing.

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important in our rehearsal because we Continued from page 15

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soon learn a Not-So-Happy Kapuki fact:
all but one V-day Filipina 2007 cast This category is inspired by “Nicole” who
member have experienced or sparked an international debate about
witnessed violence. women’s rights, national sovereignty and
international law as she steadfastly pursued
One cast member poignantly shares justice against her rapists.
Associate Director: Assistant Director: that she had been in an emotionally
SUSAN ANCHETA RONA FIGUEROA abusive relationship with a boyfriend To help “Nicole” move on with her
Freelance Actress / Actress / Singer / in college and had often wished “he interrupted life, please write checks payable
Director / Choreographer Songwriter
/ Teacher would just hit me” because maybe the to Suzette Nicolas, c/o Filipina
tangible scars would have been easier Women’s Network, PO Box 192143,
to deal with. San Francisco, CA 94119.

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Another bravely discloses that she is For more information on the Subic Rape
Executive a rape survivor. She talks about the Case, go to http://subicrapecase.
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WAY N E L E E
City of Millbrae
Planning Commissioner
“Small Town Values, Global Ambitions”
Playwright, “The Executive Producer: Executive Producer:
Vagina Monologues” MARILY MONDEJAR TESSIE ZARAGOZA
EVE ENSLER President, FWN; Executive Chair of the FWN Board;
Founder / Artistic Director, Institute for President, Organ Donor
Director, V-Day Image Management Rights Network

Director: Art Director: Editor: V-Diaries

ELENA MANGAHAS AL S. PEREZ FAY OLYMPIA
Co-Chair, Principal, Secretary of the Board,
Little Manila Foundation Creative i Studio Little Manila Foundation

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Al Perez is founder of Creative i Studio which
specializes in innovative and intelligent design
solutions for corporate events and corporate
identity programs. Al is also active in the Filipino
American community and generous with his
talents, artistry and organizational skills in helping
various non-profit organizations and in community
events. As President of the Filipino American
Arts Exposition, he heads a corps of dedicated
volunteers to pull off one of the largest and best
attended Filipino American events in the Bay Area.
Al has faithfully contributed his expertise to FWN
as Art Director for its publications from Day One
and has wholeheartedly supported the Filipina
Vagina Monologues since its very first show. | SF
Alison Goodno is the youngest member of this
year’s TVM. She is 13 years old. She is described
by her sister, Christina, as “fashionable.” She joins
her mom, Virginia and sister Christina in this year’s
TVM production. | NY
Angelina Cantada was born and raised
in Manila where she was a TV, documentary
and video producer. She came to the U.S. in
August 2004 to pursue a second BFA degree in
photography at the Academy of Art Univeristy.
Angelina joined TVM to contribute to the fight
against domestic violence. | SF
Annalee Salas Jimenez was born in Nabas,
Aklan. She immigrated to the US in 1968. She
has been married for 33 years to Jimmy and
they have three beautiful children (Cheryl, Jason,
and Jennifer). She enjoys babysitting her four
grandchildren, travelling with her husband, and
ballroom dancing. Annalee joined TVM because
she has been a survivor of violence. | SF
Annalisa de Lena is a San Francisco native.
Her grandfather came to the US after WWII.
She is an actor and a Project Manager, Online
Market Research. Annalisa joined TVM because
through performance art, the V-Diaries, and
word-of-mouth, we can help increase awareness
and create a supportive outlet for women and
girls. | SF
Bambi Bernales immigrated to the US with
her husband in 2001. She is a wife and mother
who is eclectic, enjoys creating visual art, loves
performing on stage, likes to travel, an anime
fan, and an avid PS2 player. Bambi joined TVM
because this is a great venue to reach out and
educate people. | NY
Bingo Marasigan was born in the U.S. and
was raised in the Philippines. She keeps herself
busy as a massage therapist, holistic health coach
and spiritual counselor. She received her Liberal
Arts degree from San Francisco State University
and recently graduated from the Berkeley Psychic
Institute and the World School of Massage
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and Holistic Healing Arts. Bingo joined TVM to
celebrate Filipina women’s strength and resiliency.
| SF+NY
Christina Baal is a proud first generation
Pinay. She is The Immigrant Women’s Program
Coordinator at Cabrini Immigrant Services. She
received her BFA in Drama from NYU and her
MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work.
Christina joined TVM because she wanted to work
on a production that combined her activist self
and artist self. She is thrilled to be working with a
powerful group of women to end violence against
Filipinas. | NY
Christina Formento Stover was born in
Manila. She graduated from Saint Mary’s College
BA Law Studies and was a professional in the
legal field for 25 years. She is a wife and mother
of two college students. She is a marathon
runner, cyclist, and practices yoga and meditation.
Christina joined TVM because she believes
in educating women, especially the younger
generation, in raising awareness to put a stop and
help in the cause against violence. | SF+NY
Christina M. Samala was raised in NY and
is a first generation Filipina-American. She is an
alumna of The Wharton School of the University
of Pennsylvania. An idealist, artist, athlete, writer,
business woman, and believer in community,
she is a woman dedicated to positive social
change. Christina joined TVM to get involved in
a local Filipina community, for a strong sense of
sisterhood, and to be part of a movement that
empowers women.
Christina Goodno was born in California. This
18-year old artist and athlete is about to graduate
high school and would like to go to art school.
She describes herself as someone who is easy to
get along with and thinks positive. She joins her
mom, Virginia and sister Alysson in this year’s TVM
production. | NY
Christine Vanessa Padilla is a Bay Area
native. Christine is on staff at the Office of
Congressman Tom Lantos (CA - District 12) as a
Field Representative and Liaison to the Filipino
Community, and is also the Program Director for
the Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC).
Christine is also devoted to her work with CORA
and is an officer on the CORA Kumares Fil-Am
Task Force. Prior, Christine served as the Executive
Director for Contemporary Asian Theater Scene
(CATS). Christine holds a degree in American
Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz.
She declares, ”I am Filipino AND Mexican.”
Her father was born in the Philippines and came
to the U.S. when he was five years old. Her mother
is Mexican American and was born in the
Bay Area. | SF
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Cindy Gruspe was born in the U.S. Her parents
are both first generation immigrants from the
Philippines. She is a graduate student in Marriage
& Family Therapy/Art Therapy at Notre Dame de
Namur University. She is also an artist: painting,
printmaking and sculpture. Cindy joined TVM
because she believes it is a fun and creative
way to bring awareness around violence against
women. | SF
Don Santos received his BSBA degree in
Business Management from Holy Angel University,
Angeles City, Philippines. He owned a beauty
salon and won various awards from regional
and national hair and make-up competitions.
Don came to the United States in 2004, settling
near his parents in the San Francisco area. Don
continued his study of Cosmetology, is currently
La Prairie Business Manager at Bloomingdale’s,
and plans to study Esthetics. Spurred by his
strong belief in equality, Don will make 2007 his
third year of volunteering services to the FWN’s
production of “The Vagina Monologues.” | Crew
Elena Mangahas was born and raised in the
Philippines. She describes herself as “Pinay na
Pinay.” She is engaged in cultural history and
historic preservation of anything Pinoy/Pinay
in her community. She creates forums that
bring people together for knowledge sharing
and cultural understanding that may affect
appreciation of each others values and strengths.
She wants to help Pinoys reconnect with the
tales and folklores that they grew up with. |
SF+NY+Crew
Fay Alvarez Olympia is a writer and editor
with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the
University of the Philippines and over 20 years
of experience in Philippine print and broadcast
media, public information, training and events
planning. Her favorite job was producing and
hosting a live shortwave radio show to the Asian
mainland. She is proud to have been executive
producer of an award-winning Manila FM radio
program showcasing original Filipino classical
music, composers and artists. Fay moved to
the US in 1999 with husband Emmanuel and
daughter Jodie. She is a trained and certified
center director of a nationally branded chain
of learning centers and profitably ran a local
Stockton franchise before returning to writing
and editing. She serves on the board of the Little
Manila Foundation and helps out at FWN as
editor of its two annual publications. She enjoys
sharing the history and culture of her people,
loves good, strong coffee and dark chocolate,
gets a kick out of wedding planning and is an
unabashed Trekker who could take over from
Capt. Janeway but draws the line at speaking
Klingon. | Crew
Despite being a pop culture junkie, Franklin
Ricarte hopes to write the next great American
novel. A native of the Philippines and a former
long time resident of San Francisco, Franklin finally
feels at home in New York City, where”amazing
things can happen when you remember to look
around.” Franklin is with the “1.5 generation
– born in the Philippines and grew up in the U.S.”
| Crew
Genevieve Herreria was born in the
Philippines. Her family immigrated to the U.S. in
1983. She grew up in the Bay Area (East Bay)
but has lived in Orange County and Seattle, WA.
She has a BS in Biology from UCI and an MPH
from the University of WA. As a public health
professional she has experience in substance
abuse prevention, family planning, domestic
violence, and obesity and diabetes prevention.
She is currently an Executive Assistant for a
Venture Capital firm in San Francisco. She enjoys,
hiking, reading, and dancing. Genevieve joined
TVM to support the campaign to end violence
against women, especially Filipina women. | SF
Genevieve Jopanda is the first American
born of the Villafranca-Jopanda family. Her
parents, natives of IloIlo, Visayas were always
actively involved in the Filipino community. Her
previous roles as President of DVC’s PACA, active
involvement in SF State’s PACE and most recently,
VP of Youth & Community Advocacy for FWN
feeds her passion for community wellness. She is
empowered to stop the stereotypes that plague
Filipino women and continually help shape the
Filipino woman’s image. Genevieve joined TVM to
help educate victims of violence who are unaware
of the laws and the people that can protect
them, to speak for those who are afraid or not
ready to share their story. “On stage, I am their
microphone communicating to the rest of the
world for them. I will continue to yell, kick,
and scream for them until the violence stops.”
| SF+NY+CREW
Giovannie Pico was born in Tondo, Manila.
She earned her Hollywood merits playing medical
student Ludlow in four episodes of NBC’s Emmy
winning series, ”ER.” She also appeared as
Rose Alipio on Fox Network’s “BONES” and will
currently be starring in the martial arts/action
adventure series, “Kambal.” Giovannie joined
TVM because “TVM and FWN changed my life
and empowered me to empower others.” |
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Jane Datangel was born in Manila and MY
immigrated to the US with her family at the
age of 3. She is a registered nurse for a biotechCY
company. About 2.5 years ago, she started acting CMY
classes at the American Conservatory Theatre
and since then has been addicted to performing.
Jane joined TVM because violence is a part of all
of our lives. “Domestic violence is a widespread
problem. I am a Filipina. I am a performer. I want
to speak out against DV and raise awareness in
MY community where an issue as such is often
not discussed because of shame, fear, and/or
socio-cultural values. | SF
NEW YORK CITY
Jennifer S. Jimenez is a native born San
Franciscan, and has never left San Francisco.
She has a BA in Psychology from UC Davis,
and MS in Counseling, Marriage and Family
Therapy, from Cal State East Bay. She currently
works at CORA, where she provides support for
victims and survivors of domestic violence. At
CORA, she is also working towards becoming a
licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has a
Dachshund (weiner dog) named Henry who thinks
that he is human. She loves animals and have had
chinchillas, birds, a guinea pig, 20+ rabbits and
30+ hamsters. Jennifer has been involved in TVM
productions in SF and NY since 2006. | SF+NY
Jo Macaldo was born and raised in the
Philippines. She immigrated to the U.S. in 2000. Jo
has experience in drama & theatre studies, acting,
writing. She’s a 100% Musical Theatre Geek. Jo
joined TVM because she wanted to be part of a
production that has created a major impact to
women everywhere. | NY
Jo-Ann Agcaoili is the Assistant Vice President
for Business Support at Banc of America Leasing.
She has supported and volunteered in past
productions of FWN since 2003 and believes
in V-Day and FWN to prevent and stop violence
against women and girls.
Born and raised in the Philippines, Kai Delen-
Briones. I moved to San Francisco when she
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she was 13. At The First Tee of San Francisco, this
20-year old teaches 8 to 18-year olds life skills
through the sport of golf. She joins the TVM crew
because she believes that education is the best
solution to stop domestic violence. | SF
Kathleen Prado Gibson | SF
Kathleen Ben has a degree in Managerial
Economics (UC Davis) and is the Office Manager
of Avalon Global but has been dreaming about
being on stage since Lea Salonga starred in Miss
Saigon in 1989. 17 years later, she finally took her
first acting class at the Jean Shelton Actors Lab in
San Francisco. Kathleen grew up in Quezon City
and Marikina with her 4 handsome and beautiful
siblings. Her family came to the U.S. in 1991. Her
mom is from Pangasinan and her dad is from
Ilocos Sur. She is participating in TVM despite the
death of her grandfather the day she auditioned.
She knows that Lolo Juan wants her to celebrate
and participate fully in life. She joined TVM to
speak out for those girls and women whose
freedom and voice are suppressed. For two 3-hour
shows, I get to be their voice. What an honor and
privilege that is.” | SF+NY
Kaye Gonzales was born and raised in Manila
and has been in the US for five years. Kaye is
a Pinoy at heart. Favorite credits include Miss
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Superstar. A proud graduate of the American
Musical and Dramatic Academy New York where
she received a National Scholarship Award. Kaye
joined TVM to be heard. | NY
Ken Marquis is an Emmy-nominated Television
Producer, Theatrical Director, Acting Coach,
Stage Manager, and Technical Director who is
an influential leader and creative driving force
in every production he touches. He is known for
his innovative television, radio, theater, events,
concerts, pageants, and outdoor music and dance
festivals. | CREW
Kristal R. Aliyas was born and raised in the U.S.
She is a proud pinay! She loves singing, dancing,
swimming, yoga and healthy eating. She also
enjoys participating in events that support Breast
Cancer awareness. | NY
Lourdes “Ludy” Corrales was born and
raised in the Philippines and immigrated to the
U.S. in 1973. She is a self-starter who welcomes
challenges and opportunities. Her passion is to
help the community. ”I have been lucky in my life
and it gives me so much pleasure to give back
to the community in terms of being a leader and
being active in worthwhile projects such as those
from FWN.” Ludy joined TVM because domestic
violence is becoming prevalent and she believes
in a community effort to help victims through
preventative measures and education. | NY
Lolita Kintanar | SF
Luna Salaver is a native San Franciscan who
was raised in Daly City. She is the proud mother of
Nicole Maxali, another TVM cast member. ”Nicole
thought it would be a great mother-bonding
experience and it has turned out to be one of
the most significant projects we’ve ever done
together.” No stranger to performing, she was one
of the principal dancers for Escola Nova de Samba
and Academicos da Estrada Real performing
companies. Luna had a successful dancing career,
including several performances with Santana,
and opening for Tito Puente, Cachao, the Neville
Brothers, Pete Escovedo, Mickey Hart and the
Planet Drum. For the past 26 years, Luna has
devoted her career to fighting air pollution,
working for the Bay Area Air District. She has
served as program manager for the regional Spare
the Air program since 2004. | SF
Mara Salazar was born in the Philippines. She
has experience in planning, marketing, accounting,
and event organization. She is fun and fearless,
bubbly yet shy. A beach bum wannabe who loves
to ski during winter, Mara loves to travel and
believes that life can’t be lived to the fullest if there
aren’t any risks involved. Mara joined TVM because
it has been her dream to be on stage again. After
her first day at rehearsal she learned TVM was
more than just a play. | SF
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Marie Matiko is an active contributor to many
relevant forums that influence the perception
of Asians in the media. She has presented at
Harvard University for the Asian American National
Conference on Law and Public Policy, as well
as at UCI, UCLA, the New York and San Diego
Film Festivals, the National Association of Asian
Professionals, and multiple universities in Asia.
Marie was also the celebrity spokesperson for
the California Democratic Asian American
Caucus. | NY
Marily Mondejar is executive director of the
Institute for Image Management, an organization
development and career coaching practice. She
advises executives on leadership and career
derailment issues, consults on corporate image
strategies, merger implications, scenario planning,
and maximizing performance, through work with
executive teams, large-scale change, alliance-
building, and culture development. She serves
on nonprofit boards including San Francisco’s
Commission on the Status of Women’s Justice and
Courage Project’s Oversight Committee tasked
with implementing the city’s systemwide response
to domestic violence. | SF+NY+Crew
Marisa Marquez is an actress/playwright
in New York City. Originally from Sacramento,
California, she has found a home away from
home in the Filipino community by working at the
Filipino American Human Services, Inc. | SF+NY
Maya Ong Escudero | SF
Nicole Maxali is a third generation Filipino
American. She began creating at the age of
five. She has worked on her craft by attending
Jean Shelton Actors Lab & The First Take Acting
Program with Nancy Berwid. Nicole is blessed to
be a Bindlestiff Player & has been in the following
‘Stiff productions: Stories High 2005/2006, The
Love Edition 2005, & Shadows. Nicole joined TVM
because ”I believe we are all creators. We create
the world we live in and wish to live in. In doing
this show, I want o create a world that will not
tolerate any forms of abuse!” | SF
Owen Donahoo emigrated from Toronto,
Canada in 2001. She is a mom, a wife, a career
woman, a photographer, a tae-kwon-do martial
artist and an avid scrapbooker. She loves kids
and dancing. “For me, there is always room in
my heart and energy in my youth to care about
issues affecting our community and I want to
reach out and do whatever I can in my capacity
to make a difference and improve the lives of our
kababayans.” | SF
Perla de Jesus is a survivor of domestic
violence. She is a creative artist, salon owner
and hairstylist. She has three children and one
grandson. Perla enjoys dancing, dining out, going
to museums and having fun.
Remy Aquino has been sorely independent
since the age of 6 years old. ”Yes, my parentage is
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obscure but that did not stop me for looking at life
as a precious gift, and my knack for always landing
on my feet has been admirable and inspiring for
most people and so I was told.” Remy joined TVM
because ”I care and bow to help in decreasing
the amount of this evil that is an embarrassment
to men and a humiliation for women. An evil that
pervades our communities, strips us of honor and
corodes our diginity.” | NY
Rona Figueroa. I am surprised but delighted
that the Philippine Center is the venue of this
controversial show. This world is not set up for
women to express themselves. Being a Filipino-
American woman is even more challenging,
though not without its own advantages. | Crew
Rosalinda Medina Rupel (Linda to all of you)
is a professional librarian in a UK-based law firm in
NY. She is a community leader in (PAFCOM) New
Jersey, an advocate, a part-time actress (Looking
for William) and grandmother to 3 beautiful
grandchildren. Linda has a MLS from Long Island
University, a MAEE from the Center for Research
& Communications and a BSE (History / Library
Science). She joined TVM to be and advocate to
increase awareness on domestic violence among
Filipino American families in the US. One of her
goals in life is to “Bridge the gap between the
youth and the elderly.” Hailed from Malabon,
Linda is first generation Filipino American and has
been living in New Jersey since 1985. Her parents
are from Hagonoy and Kalumpit, Bulacan of the
Medina Flores Del Mundo clan. | NY
Sharolyn Salas is a second-generation Filipino
American. Her parents met and got married in the
Philippines in 1969, lived in Guam for 5 years, and
then moved to San Francisco in 1975. Aside from
being a tutor of at-risk inner-city children at CORA
(Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse), she
is also a caregiver to her nephew, Nathan, 5 times
a week. Sharolyn received her B.A. in Psychology
at San Francisco State University with a minor
in Holistic Health in 2005. She was in the TVM
production in New York last year and is happy
to be in the San Francisco production this year.
Sharolyn loves to dance, sing, travel, and enjoy
life! | SF
Sonia T. Delen is a Senior Vice President at Banc
of America Leasing and is the head of Transaction
Management for the Corporate Large Ticket group.
Sonia is a pioneer of FWN’s TVM production which
started in March 2003 and this year’s event
would be her 7th appearance as a member of the
cast and crew of TWM, including the production
in New York in June 2006. For Sonia, TVM is a
vehicle by which people come to grips with the
widespread occurence of domestic violence on
women and children all over the world. TVM is
empowering to both women and men, educating
us about domestic violence and giving us hope
in stopping this crime. We, as individuals, have
the ability to work together with the community
and the government to press for more vigilance in
preventing this violence. | Crew
Sunny Dykwel imigrated to the US in 1969.
She has over 20 years of real estate sales
experience and currently serves on the boards of
the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, Palo Alto
Recreation Foundation, Palo Alto YMCA, and Palo
Alto Downtown Business Improvement District.
Sunny joined TVM because it is a good cause
and the experience adds a new dimension to her
community activism. And where is Bob? Fosse,
Mackey… | SF
Susan Ancheta was born in Hawaii. She is
a professional actress / singer who performed
on Broadway in “Miss Saigon” and “Flower
Drum Song.” She is also a freelance Director /
Choreographer and Teacher specializing in the Arts.
Susan joined TVM because she wanted to support
FWN’s movement for change...”the stereotypical
image of an Asian woman in our society has been
misunderstood. I believe we should embrace our
heritage and cultural / spiritual attributes, but
unfortunately I fear if we don’t learn to speak
out and be proud and unashamed, we fall into a
growing statistic of victims.” | NY+CREW
Teresa Gamboa is seven years old. She is in
the first grade at Notre Dame des Victoires.
Tess Crescini represents buyers and sellers
in residential and commercial real estate in the
Bay Area and in the Philippines. She owns TriStar
Financial, a mortgage brokerage. Born in Pasay
City, Tess immigrated to California at age 13.
Tess’ grandmother was from Spain and her great
grandfather was from Italy. She graduated from
San Jose State University with a BA in English and
became a school teacher and a published poet and
writer before turning to the real estate business
to support herself and her family. She joined TVM
because ”I’m a survivor of domestic violence. I
want to speak up to save lives.” | SF
Tessie Zaragoza } SF+NY+CREW
Thess Castillo is a graduate of St. Scholastica’s
College in Manila. In the Philippines, she was
actively involved in socio-political organizations
and was Chairperson of the National Federation
of Student Councils-NCRR. After moving to the
U.S., she was saddened to no longer be a prime
mover of social change. Joining TVM helped to fill
that void. She is now doing what she loves: being
a catalyst of social change. ”I know I can’t change
the world, but in my own little ways, with my skills
and talents, I am able to impart what may be of
value to others. This has been a very empowering
and liberating experience for me.” | NY
Virginia Goodno is the mother of two of
the youngest cast members of V-Day Filipina
2007, Christina and Alison. She was born in the
Philippines. She was a teacher at an after-school
academy. Her daughter Christina says that her
mom is “funny, designs houses, organizes things,
and loves going to church.This world is blessed to
have a mother who encourages her children to do
the work of peace at an early age. | NY
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Filipina Women’s Network
P. O. Box 192143
San Francisco, CA 94119
Phone: 415. 278. 9410
Fax: 415. 840. 0655
E-mail: filipina@ffwn.org
Web site: www.ffwn.org
Mission Statement
Established in 2001, FWN’s
mission is to enhance public
perceptions of Filipina women’s
capacities to lead, change biases
against Filipina women’s
leadership abilities and promote
the entry of Filipina women into
positions of leadership in
corporate, government, and
nonprofit sectors.
FWN achieves its mission through
public education forums that
heighten Filipina women’s
visibility, research on Filipina
women’s issues, leadership, skill
building and career development
programs for Filipina women, and
influencing popular culture.
Goals 2007-08
Increase financial assistance
capabilities to ensure that FWN
educational programs and events
are accessible to Filipina women
of all socio-economic
backgrounds.
Increase FWN’s network of Filipina
women business owners and
those employed in corporations,
government and nonprofit
organizations and utilize the
database as a leadership pipeline
for corporate visibility.
Endow the Filipina Leadership
Development and Womantoring
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Generate operating funds for the
establishment of a national
headquarters and research library
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