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Know Your Rights: An Immigration Attorney's Message to the Filipino Community

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American Canyon, Solano County • March 2026. Know Your Rights: An Immigration Attorney's Message to the Filipino Community. immigration attorney filipino american, catholic charities yolo solano, know your rights immigration, fil-am immigration legal help, clarence mamaril, ice detentions filipinos, uscis legal services, filipino immigrant rights california. IMMIGRATION LAW • MARCH 2026 Know Your Rights: An Immigration Attorney's Message to the Filipino Community After 30 years in immigration law, Atty. Clarence Mamaril joins PinoyBuilt to help Fil-Am and immigrant communities navigate one of the most turbulent periods in U.S. immigration history. Photo above: Atty. Clarence Mamaril with Congressman Mike Thompson at a recent town hall in American Canyon. Hello, PinoyBuilt readers. My name is Clarence Mamaril, and I am honored to join this community as a contributing writer. I want to begin by thanking J.F. Perseverand...
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Marks of the Ancestors: Mel Orpilla and the Filipino Story of Vallejo

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Vallejo, California • March 2026. Mel Orpilla: Historian, Martial Artist, and Keeper of Vallejo's Filipino Memory. mel orpilla, vallejo filipino history, filipinos in vallejo, balintawak arnis, island warrior fighting sticks, manong generation, mare island naval shipyard, fil-am history, ifugao, ilocano heritage, pamana, filipino american history month. Vallejo, CA • Filipino American History Month 2026 Marks of the Ancestors: Mel Orpilla and the Filipino Story of Vallejo Historian, martial artist, and cultural keeper Mel Orpilla has spent decades ensuring that the Filipino presence in Vallejo—one of the oldest in Northern California—is documented, honored, and passed on. Mel Orpilla — historian, Balintawak Arnis master, and keeper of Vallejo's Filipino memory. 📍 Vallejo, California In the city of Vallejo, history lives in unexpected places. It lives in faded photographs tucked into family albums, in stor...
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PinoyBuilt 2026 Update: 500% Performance Growth & New Contributors

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Vallejo, CA • March 2026. PinoyBuilt Performance Update: The Secret Sauce and New Voices. pinoybuilt update, fil-am blog, filipino-american website, clarence mamaril, vallejo filipino, pinoybuilt growth, fil-am media. VALLEJO, CA • MARCH 2026 PinoyBuilt Performance Update: Finding the Secret Sauce Site performance is soaring, new contributors are arriving, and the PinoyBuilt vision is finally coming home. PinoyBuilt community — Fil-Am friends & family across CA, LA, SF & Hawaiʻi, 2011 Our site PinoyBuilt has been outperforming itself. Yesterday's AdSense earnings spiked over 500% compared to the same day last week. Our "Last 7 Days" metrics are also up over 500% versus the previous 7 days, and "This month" is already +351% versus the same period last year. I may have found the "secret sauce." Thank you to every visitor and reader...
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American Canyon Together (ACT) Rally at Safeway: Join Atty. Clarence Mamaril

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American Canyon, CA • March 13, 2026. LOCAL ALERT: Join Atty. Clarence Mamaril and American Canyon Together (ACT) for a peaceful rally at Safeway. Exercising First Amendment rights in the 707. Community Action • American Canyon, CA 94503 Region Friday Rally: March 13 Join American Canyon Together (ACT) at Safeway Standing for peaceful assembly and local community voices. Hello friends, American Canyon Together (ACT) is gathering tomorrow afternoon for a community rally. As your neighbor and advocate here in the 707, I invite you to join us as we exercise our First Amendment rights in a peaceful, family-friendly environment. Event Logistics 📍 American Canyon Safeway Date: Friday, March 13, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Essentials: Please bring your signs, water, and comfortable walking shoes. All peaceful community members are welcome! ACT is a grassroots gro...
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Marcelino Lim: From Springstowne Jr. High to Birmingham, AL (Hogan '85)

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Birmingham, AL • March 12, 2026. Celebrating Marcelino Lim's birthday with a flashback to the Hogan '85 20th Reunion and the "JJAAM" crew from Springstowne Jr. High. Photo shot on the vintage Olympus C3000Z. Birmingham, Alabama • March 12, 2026 Maligayang Bati, Marcelino! From Springstowne to the South Celebrating a Spartan brother, a "JJAAM" basketball original, and a friendship that survived the rain and the years. Today we send a massive Happy Birthday to Marcelino Lim , now holding it down in Birmingham, Alabama! Whether it’s Maligayang bati or—in honor of our 7th-grade French class roots— Joyeux anniversaire , the message remains the same: brotherhood is forever. Our history goes back to the lunch courts of Springstowne Jr. High School . If it wasn't raining, we were playing basketball. It started with Tony Palisoc and me meeting in French class; then Joe , Arnel , and Marcelino joined the rotation by 8th gr...
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Hogan High School Class of 1985 Reunion: Martin Nunez & Tony Palisoc in Stockton

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Stockton, CA • March 7, 2026. Martin Nunez & Tony Palisoc: Hogan Spartans '85 Brotherhood at the Lake. Stockton, CA • March 7, 2026 Martin Nunez & Tony Palisoc: Hogan Spartans '85 Brotherhood at the Lake Laughter, old stories, and lifelong bonds as the Class of 1985 reunites at Michael Dondi Reyes' birthday celebration. There is a specific kind of laughter that only comes from brothers who have known each other for over four decades. At the recent lakeside gathering for Michael Dondi Reyes in Stockton, Martin Nunez and Tony Palisoc reminded us all what "Civic Memory" really looks like in action. Hogan Class of '85: Martin Nunez and Tony Palisoc sharing a laugh. The table was filled with more than just food; it was filled with the shared history of the Hogan Spartans Class of 1985 . Whether it was catching up on life today or reaching back into the vault for stories f...
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Hiddenbrooke, CA • March 2026. The Memory Heist: How DreamWorks' 'Forgotten Island' Turns Filipino Mythology Into a Diaspora Reckoning. forgotten island dreamworks, filipino mythology animation, H.E.R. liza soberano, lea salonga manananggal, nakali island, filipino american diaspora, pinoy pride, fil-am identity, filipino folklore, dreamworks animation 2026, joel crawford januel mercado, filipino culture film. FILM & IDENTITY • MARCH 2026 The Memory Heist: How DreamWorks' 'Forgotten Island' Turns Filipino Mythology Into a Diaspora Reckoning The first major animated film rooted in Philippine folklore asks the question every immigrant carries: What do you lose when you leave? A PinoyBuilt analysis of the most important Filipino cultural moment in animation history. DreamWorks Animation's Forgotten Island features a voice cast led by H.E.R., Liza Soberano, and Lea Salonga in a story root...
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Mindanao Earthquake 2026: 7.8 Magnitude Kills 32, Tsunami Hits General Santos City

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Mindanao, Philippines • June 2026. Magnitude 7.8 earthquake kills dozens in General Santos City and Sarangani. Mindanao earthquake, tsunami, General Santos City, Cotabato Trench, Filipino diaspora relief, Fil-Am. Mindanao • June 2026 Mindanao Earthquake 2026: 7.8 Magnitude Kills 32, Tsunami Hits General Santos City The most powerful quake to hit the Philippines since 1990 struck southern Mindanao on June 8, killing at least 32, triggering a tsunami, and plunging Fil-Am families into a desperate silence — no power, no signal, no word from home. General Santos City — population 700,000 — sustained catastrophic structural damage when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck 13 km southwest of the city on the morning of June 8, 2026. | Hero image: Gemini/Imagen for PinoyBuilt It was a Monday morning, the first day of a new school year for more than three million children across Mindanao. Parents had packed bags and sent ...
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Manila, Philippines • March 2026. Madonna of the Slums: The Soul of Post-War Manila. Vicente Manansala, Transparent Cubism, Filipino modernism, post-war Manila, National Artist Philippines, Thirteen Moderns, heritage, art history, diaspora identity. Art History & Heritage • March 2026 Madonna of the Slums: The Soul of Post-War Manila Vicente Manansala's 1950 masterpiece reimagined the sacred Madonna as a Brown Filipino mother in the wreckage of post-war Manila — and in doing so, changed Philippine art forever. Seventy-five years later, it still speaks directly to us. Madonna of the Slums (1950) by Vicente Silva Manansala. Oil on Masonite, 86.5 cm × 61 cm. National Museum of Fine Arts, Manila. A cornerstone of Filipino Modernism. There is a particular kind of gravity that settles over you when you stand before a painting that refuses to look away. Vicente Manansala's Madonna of the Slums , complete...
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California • March 2026. UC Santa Cruz Sets Record With 90,867 Applications for Fall 2026 — What Filipino-American Students Need to Know. uc santa cruz admissions 2026, filipino american college, ucsc fall 2026, california university admissions, fil-am students UC. EDUCATION • CALIFORNIA • MARCH 2026 UC Santa Cruz Sets Record With 90,867 Applications for Fall 2026 — What Filipino-American Students Need to Know The "Banana Slugs" are no longer anyone's backup plan. UCSC's historic surge in applications reshapes the college landscape for thousands of Fil-Am families across California. For years, Filipino-American families across the Bay Area, Sacramento, and Southern California treated UC Santa Cruz as the "safe" choice — the fallback when UCLA and Berkeley were out of reach. That calculation just changed. In a cycle defined by a record-shattering surge of interest, UCSC received approxi...
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