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Everything's PoliticalRadyo Kapwa JingleFounded in 1999 and formerly known as Sigaw ng Bayan, Radyo Kapwa is an inclusive Filipino/a/x community and cultural radio show that celebrates the diversity and difference of people with roots to the Philippines. With three historical colonial invasions, multiple waves of migration worldwide, and over 7000 islands, we recognize and honour that Filipino/a/x/s are not a monolith. We provide a wide range of programming, music, and discussion topics to reflect this diversity.
Radyo Kapwa aims to share their platform with grassroots community organisers and organisations, as well as interviews with inspiring members of our community...
2024-02-2700 min
Everything's PoliticalKapwa & Loob: Part 1Mabuhay les ami.es, long time no talk.
That's just how things are! Life has been very busy since you last hear me rant. Quick update for you all. I am now working full-time as a paralegal in a law firm. You can say that I doing what I want as a career. I also co-founded, Centre Kapwa, a non-profit organization based here in Tiotia:ke/Montreal. We have been doing a lot of activities to support the mental health and wellbeing of Filipinx youth and families. Therefore, voila, that's why I have been busy. We have...
2023-07-0517 min
Everything's PoliticalCanada's healthcare system overwhelmingly burdens womenMabuhay les ami.es, I am back once againt to continue my rant about the so-called Canada’s broken healthcare system. As the title of this episode entails, I will talk about the overwhelming burden on women when the decision-makers are primarily men who do not have the same experiences.
Yet, Canada boasts itself as a democratic country. So why are the ministers in charge of our healthcare system men? In Quebec, we have an accountant in charge of our health and social care services. Rich, Cis, White men.
If this is a true democracy, do...
2022-12-0709 min
Everything's PoliticalImperialist Canada Poaching Filipino Healthcare WorkersMabuhay les ami.es!
I finally had the burst of energy to talk and rant about the disastrous healthcare system here in Canada and how neoliberal employment-immigration policies are just another way of stealing resources from another country like the Philippines. Unsurprisingly, imperialist nations like Canada and the West allies are relying back again on their former colonies.
From 1960 to the 1970s, due to USA’s healthcare worker shortages coming out from the Second World War, they needed a lot of care providers for all their injured G.I.s. When the USA violently occupied th...
2022-11-3014 min
Everything's PoliticalAng mga bagay na dapat nating ipagpasalamat by Hanna DonatoMabuhay les ami.es,
I am back again! Sorry I am not able to regularly upload. Please do enjoy this episode where I read Hanna's Tagalog segment on Filipino Star for Canada's Thanksgiving.
Hanna, just like me, is 1.5 generation immigrant. Born in the Philippines and spent awkward teenagehood here in Tiotia:ke/Montreal.
In her writing, she shared her experience as someone who is not familiar with the concept of this colonial Thanksgiving. Rather, she share her experiences in a more decolonized perspective. I noticed it in the way she thanks the Sun...
2022-11-1806 min
Everything's PoliticalQueer Kuwentuhan: Home, Vulnerability & LoveMabuhay les ami.es! It’s me again Veronica! For this episode, it’s not really a rant but more of a spoken word or what we say in Tagalog, Tula.
This is a speech I prepared for an event hosted by a dear friend of mine Jackie, a PhD candidate in Social Work at McGill University. I was one of the participants of her studies about Queer Filipinx in Tiotia:ke/Montreal.
During the workshops, we really got intimate in a spiritual level and strengthen our connection/bond to the Homeland and our queerness.
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2022-10-1907 min
Everything's PoliticalWikang Tagalog: Kaibigan & Ka-ibiganMabuhay les ami.es! Long time no talk. Sorry! I cannot seem to sustain rigid scheduling and really having a hard time managing my time.
So, when I did have a burst of energy, I immediately went into writing mode.
I have been dwelling on how to center and highlight Tagalog as my native language. I live in Tiotia:ke, colonially known as Montreal. I also live in Quebec. Language is a big deal. We just had an election and the governing party has openly demonised and scapegoated immigrants such as myself to gain more...
2022-10-1206 min
Everything's PoliticalReaction Episode: Omni News Report on loi 96 as a Filipino & commentsMabuhay les ami.es,
I have been meaning to address and unpack the comments under the recent Omni news report that I was part of. If you want to watch it, it's on Omni News Facebook page.
I want to decortiquer a bit the emotions behind the comments that are hateful that basically came from somewhere deep.
For this episode, I dived into our concept of home and the decalage between our parents' generations and ours.
Why is it that our own kapwa is mad that we are fighting for our r...
2022-06-2208 min
Everything's PoliticalWikang Tagalog: Unpacking "Siya" & Queerness HeritageMabuhay les ami.es! As mentioned, here is the second episode for this month of June which is Filipino Heritage Month in the Turtle Island/ Canada.
If you want to inform yourself more about Queer heritage we have pre-colonial Spanish era, I listed to Pinoy Historian Kirby Araullo. Check him out on youtube. I also follow several decolonised accounts on Instagram which helped me come up with my own understanding of our view on sexuality without a colonisers' influence.
The homophobia that current Filipinos experience is from the strong colonial foothold of Spanish imperialism that h...
2022-06-1510 min
Everything's PoliticalWikang Tagalog: Deeper analysis as an art formMabuhay! I am excited to share this small project of mine in the spirit of Filipino Heritage Month. I want to create 3 other episodes for the month and hopefully, you all like it and learned something from it!
I worked hard for this idea and episode. I edited my script several times. I used popular movies/shows as an example to make it easier to understand where I'm coming from. The goal here is to informally educate you all. I dont have a degree in Education but I do have a degree in Political Science and Paralegal...
2022-06-0116 min
Everything's PoliticalLoi 96: Weaponisation of the French language in QuebecThis is my opinion alone which is protected by both Canadian and Quebec Charters. I will not entertain comments that are clearly done to rile me up.
I created this video in order to validate the feelings you're feeling right now. This is a space for my Kapwa Pilipino and immigrants who are the indirect target of this law to alienate and assimilate. Let take care of each other.
Yakap ng mahigpit.
2022-05-2515 min
Everything's PoliticalLife is Art, Land is Life at Parc JarryMabuhay les ami.es, long time no episode!
This episode is actually a reflection and caption for my post at @mat.vero over on Instagram. If you are curious as to what I posted, I suggest to head over there and check my post.
As always, enjoy my ramble! I wish to do more of this in the future.
Maraming salamat.
Vero out!
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2022-05-0408 min
Everything's Political7- Filipino Food & our IdentityMabuhay les ami.es! I'm back with another episode. I am happy to be able to sustain this podcasting of mine finish all the way to Food. I had certain topics I wanted to tackle before I start freestyling about my future episodes. I wanted to be able to touch the basics first. That way, I can just refer back as I talk about more topics.
As an uprooted immigrant, food is our direct connection to our "home". Even those who were born here and unable to speak their parents' mother tongue, are still able to pronounce t...
2022-01-1922 min
Everything's Political6- Sword & Cross: Land Back!Mabuhay les ami.es and Happy new year!
Je suis de retour and I finally had the energy to finish this episode. I am satisfied as to how I finished this. This episode is a little roller coaster story telling. But then again, that's kinda how my episodes are anyways. Imagine if I dont have a script/outline. I will be talking on and on. I will not have anymore listeners.
Anywho, I hope you all had a good day. I had a rough 2021. We all did anyways except richie rich people profiting off our...
2022-01-0325 min
Everything's PoliticalSpecial episode: Activism, Mental Health, Generational TraumaMabuhay les ami.es, I apologise for being MIA. For this episode, I talk about an issue that barely anyone speaks about by everyone has experienced some way or another. It is about my activist and mental health stemming most of it from generational trauma from my background as former colonies of several imperialist nations. I mean Spain, UK, and Japan were once an empire. I am displaced from my own homeland, "tahanan ng aking lahi" or land of my race in english, to immigrate here in Tiotia:ke/Montreal for economic purposes. The social, political, economic sphere in...
2021-12-0522 min
Everything's Political5-Sword & Cross: Catholic ChurchMabuhay les ami.es! Trigger warning for this episode as I rant about the Catholic Church and how it's weaponised to cut our ties from our indigenous belief (paganism). We think of ancient Greek mythology as something cool. We know Zeus, God of War, Venus, Goddess of Love. Well, guess what? We "Filipinos" also have our own version. We have diwata, bathala. We have our own version of God of Sea, God of land, etc. The thing is when we talk about this, we are primitive and we must be "savages" for believing this kind of stories but there's...
2021-09-1516 min
Everything's Political4.1- Tula'ng Tagalog/ Tagalog spoken word specialMabuhay les ami.es since I talked about our language, I thought it was fitting to read you all a Tagalog spokenwords. This one is from Akdaan anthology, 3rd edition. It is a spoken word by Mary Jane Veloso who was sentenced to death by the Indonesian government due to drug charges. She was allegedly a drug mule.
I apologise for the unscheduled scheduling. I am now back to school. I really hope I get to continue to doing this even though my time is more limited. I enjoy writing and recording this. As mentioned, this is...
2021-09-0110 min
Everything's Political4- our language/wikang PilipinoOur language is one of our connections to our culture, heritage. There are so many languages in the Philippines because we are very diverse. Tagalog "became" the dominant language in the Philippines as decided by the ruling Spaniard, during the Spanish occupation.
What this does is further created further division among different cultures in the Philippines. We were further pitted against one another. This is an imperialist tactic of "Divide and Conquer". First, they have divided up us by favouring one community over the other, then conquer/control us because we are not solid to our kapwa...
2021-08-1110 min
Everything's PoliticalSpecial episode with @France Stohner hitting many FirstsI apologise for the random noises in the background. I did a mini-crash course thanks to YouTube on how I can isolate as much noise as I can. If you're wondering where and what's the noise, it's my handheld microphone! It's the wire because I kept on moving. I was excited to talk to our Ate ng Bayan (Neighbourhood's big sister).
I want to clarify as well is that I did not grow up to where I currently live. My partner did. She's the one who told me the story of brick being thrown in their window à l...
2021-08-0439 min
Everything's Political3- Roots of my activismMabuhay les ami.es, this is the last episode of me "laying the ground".
In this episode, I talked about generational trauma within my community that we don't talk about it much. I talked about how this is all connected, it's all politics.
I hope that my rant has validated some of you!
Thank you for listening, merci d'avoir m'écouter, maraming salamat mga kasama.
Vero, out.
2021-07-2114 min
Everything's Political2- Why is Youth participation in politics important?Mabuhay les ami.es, for this episode, I rant why the importance if being active in politics. Hurts to say this but, we're no longer teenagers! We can't party all night and go to work at 7 am the next day. We got kids, or we're now tito or tita. We have bills to pay, rent to pay. We're grown adults now! So, lets take ownership of our life and get cozy. Tiotia:ke/Montreal, Canada is our home too. We will no longer be eternal visitors on this stolen land.
Thank you for taking time listening to...
2021-07-0709 min
Everything's Political1-Who I am and my intersectionsMabuhay les ami.es! This is Vero host of this podcast: Everything is Political. Join me while I rant about the world and sharing my perspective as a personne racisée in Tiotia:ke/Montreal.
For this episode, I just lay down the ground and talk about who I am to understand where I am coming from. So it's basically a brief introduction of me, because I am full of myself.
Im still getting the gist of how things operate so please be patient while I navigate all of this...
2021-06-2406 min