PinoyBuilt — Stories of Filipino America

Seattle, Washington • October 2026. Carlos Bulosan and the Manong Generation: What the Record Shows. carlos bulosan, america is in the heart, manong generation, filipino american history month, FAHM 2026, 10/3, ILWU Local 37, Filipino labor history, Bulosan Center UC Davis, Seattle International District, Filipino American literature. FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH • OCTOBER 2026 Carlos Bulosan and the Manong Generation: What the Record Shows Migrant laborer, union editor, and author of America Is in the Heart , Carlos Bulosan wrote the manong generation into the American record. Here is what archives and reference sources confirm about his life, his work, and where to find him. PinoyBuilt illustration for Filipino American History Month 2026. This is an artwork, not an archival photograph. October is Filipino American History Month, and any honest accounting of it has to make room for the men who worked Americ...

USA • October 2026. Who Built Filipino American History Month? The Archivists, the Galleon, and the Fight to Be Taught. filipino american history month, fahm, fanhs, fred cordova, dorothy cordova, morro bay 1587, luzones indios, mel orpilla, vallejo, s.res. 298, h.res. 780, white house fahm 2015, fil-am history, decolonization, 10/18. Community • FAHM 2026 Who Built Filipino American History Month? The Archivists, the Galleon, and the Fight to Be Taught October was not handed to us by Washington. Two Seattle archivists, a 1587 landing at Morro Bay, and three decades of volunteers built it, and Congress caught up later. PinoyBuilt illustration — a landing boat, an archive box, and the four centuries between them. Not an archival photograph. I arrived in Vallejo in June 1979, a Marikina kid by way of three Chicago winters, and at Springstowne Junior High I casually knew Phillip Orpilla. I did not know of his brother Mel until Facebook, sometim...

Manila, Philippines • August 1983. Ninoy Aquino, August 21, 1983: The Assassination That Broke the Marcos Dictatorship. ninoy aquino assassination, august 21 1983, 8/21, ninoy aquino day, manila international airport, rolando galman, agrava board, sandiganbayan, martial law, ferdinand marcos, plaza miranda 1971, people power revolution, anti-martial law movement, katipunan ng mga demokratikong pilipino, movement for a free philippines, silme domingo, gene viernes, filipino american history, fil-am diaspora, pinoybuilt Ninoy Aquino Day • August 2026 Ninoy Aquino, August 21, 1983: The Assassination That Broke the Marcos Dictatorship A returning exile was shot dead at the foot of an airplane staircase in Manila. The regime blamed a dead man lying on the pavement beside him. Almost nobody believed it — and a diaspora that had been organizing for eleven years finally had the world's attention. PinoyBuilt illustration. The service staircase at ...