Category: Messages

  • Pahayag ng Pakikiisa para sa ika-19 na Anibersaryo ng Umangat Migrante

    Pahayag ng Pakikiisa para sa ika-19 na Anibersaryo ng Umangat Migrante

    Sa pangalan ng Migrante Europe, ipinapaabot ko ang isang maalab na pagbati sa mga opisyales at buong kasapian ng Umangat Migrante sa iyong ika 19 na taong anibersaryo ng pagkakatatag.

    Ang kulang kulang dalawang dekadang paglilingkod ng Umangat Migrante sa pagsusulong ng interes at kagalingan ng mga Pilipinong migrante sa Roma at sa pakikibaka ng mamamayang Pilipino para sa isang masagana, mapayapa at malayang Pilipinas.

    Mahalaga ang orgnisasyon sa buhay ng mga migrante at maging sa ibat-ibang sector ng lipunang Pilipino. Sa pamamagitan ng organisasyon nagkakaroon tayo ng pagkakataong tayoy ay magkahalubilo, magkabalitaan, magkasayahan, magtulungan, magdamayan. Pero higit sa lahat, mahalaga ang organisasyon sapagkat itoy nagiging isang malakas na boses ng nagkakaisaang kasapi ng organisasyong upang ang mga hinaing at mga magkahalintulad na problema ay maipaabot sa kinauukulan, at ang mga kolektibong plano ay naisasakatuparan. Sabi nga ng isang kabataang-istudyante sa panahon ng Martial Law, nasa pagkakaisa ang lakas, nasa pagsulong ng pakikibaka ang tagumpay.

    Ang buhay ng mga migranteng Pilipino at maihahambing natin sa mga karakter sa kwento ng Mabuting Samaritano. Marami sa atin ang naging katulad ng manlalakbay na inabuso, ninakawan, sinugatan. Marami sa atin ang may ibat ibang reaksyon at pagtingin sa kalagayan ng manlalakbay. May ilan sa atin ang walang pakialam sa nangyayari sa panlipunang kalagayan. May ilan sa atin ang piniling umiwas sa nakikitang mga problema kahit may direktang epekto ito sa kanyang kalagayan. May ilan sa atin ang naging mabuting samaritano. Ang kwento ng mabuting samaritano ay hindi nagtatapos sa pagtulong at pag-aruga sa inabuso, ninakawan at nasugatang manlalakbay. Ang hamon ng kwento ng mabuting samaritano ay kung papaanong ang dinadaanan ng mga manlalakbay ay magiging ligtas sa anumang panganib, mapayapa at maaliwalas.

    Sa araw ng inyong pagdiriwang sa pagkakatatag ng Umangat Migrante dalangin ko na sana patuloy at determinado nyong harapin ang hamon ng kasalukuyang panahong at kalagayan.

    Members and friends of Umangat-Migrante Rome on its 19th anniversary

    Pagpalain kayo ng Panginoon Diyos sa inyong patuloy at aktibong paglahok sa pakikibaka ng migranteng Pilipino at mamamayang Pilipino para sa isang ganap na panlipunang pagbabago sa ating bayan na ang bawat mamamayan ay nakakatamasa ng panlipunang katarungan, ligtas sa anumang gutom at kapahamakan, may katiyakan sa trabaho at disenteng sahod, may lupang sinasaka ang bawat magsasaka, may paggalang sa karapatan ng mga katutubo na kolektibong paunlarin ang kanilang pamayanan – isang bayang may ganap na kapayapaan at kalayaan!

    Mabuhay ang Umangat Migrante! Mabuhay ang Migranteng Pilipino!
    Mabuhay ang Sambayanang Pilipino!

    Father Herbert Fadriquela
    Chairperson
    Migrante Europe

  • Video message from Fr. Herbert Fadriquela

    Video message from Fr. Herbert Fadriquela

    Newly-elected Chairperson of Migrante Europe, Fr. Herbert Fadriquela, Jr. gives his acceptance speech to all founding members of Migrante Europe, which successfully held its founding congress on 10-11 December 2016 in Rome, Italy.

  • Solidarity Message on Migrante – Europe’s Founding Congress

    Solidarity Message on Migrante – Europe’s Founding Congress

    MIGRANTE FRANCE
    Email: [email protected]
    08 December 2016

    Dear Migrante Europe;
    On this significant gathering, the Founding Assembly of Migrante Europe on 9-12 December 2016, we convey our warm greetings from the newly launched Migrante France!
    Migrante France is proud to be part of the biggest organization of overseas Filipinos all over the world and is highly motivated to serve our fellow countrymen under the banner of Migrante International – Europe.

    In view of the great need to strengthen the unity among OFWs to raise consciousness and awareness on the plight of migrant workers, We, Migrante France, will always share and commit ourselves to be of support and be in solidarity. We engage ourselves to struggle for the rights for jobs, fair wages and due recognition of OFWs worldwide.

    We are fully aware that it is a huge task and responsibility, however, Migrante France firmly believes that if there is unity and collective action among overseas Filipinos worldwide, genuine change can be achieved.

    Just like any other chapters, Migrante France will strive and excercise it’s full capacity to be more educated and involved in the current events and political issues hounding our country today. We look forward to more meaningful successes with you.

    CONGRATULATIONS on our founding Assembly!
    LONG LIVE MIGRANTE – EUROPE!

    MARVIN ALICTO
    Acting Secretary General
    MIGRANTE FRANCE

  • Request for solidarity messages

    Request for solidarity messages

    We are proud to announce that Migrante Europe will be holding its founding congress on 9-12 December 2016 in Rome, Italy. It will be attended by affiliate members of Migrante International as well as new applicants which will form the founding members of our regional chapter.

    Theme: “Buuin ang pagkakaisa para ipaglaban ang mga karapatan at kagalingan ng mga migrante sa Europa, at isulong ang tunay at makabuluhang pagbabago sa inang bayan.” Forge a stronger unity to fight for democratic rights and interests of migrants in Europe;struggle for genuine and lasting change in the homeland.

    The Founding Congress has the following objectives:

    1. Consolidate our ranks through country and/or city reports and sharing of Migrante International member organizations.
    2. Discuss and thresh out current issues we face as migrants and refugees in Europe.
    3. Discuss issues in the Philippines which are affecting Filipino migrants and refugees in Europe and families in the homefront.
    4. Draft and unite on a General Programme of Action, Coordinated Campaign plan and European-wide projects, addressing issues in Europe and in the homefront.
    5. Elect the regional committee and officers and appoint its secretariat.

    In line with this, we would like to request either a video (3 to 5 minutes) or written solidarity message from your organisation to mark this truly historic event. Your messages will be shown and read during the congress proceedings.

    Please if you could kindly send your solidarity messages on or before 7 December 2016.

    Below are the rationale and aims and objectives of Migrante Europe for your perusal.

    We look forward to receiving your messages!

    Yours sincerely,
    Migrante Europe Prep Com

  • Open letter of MIGRANTE to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte: The change OFWs want to see

    Open letter of MIGRANTE to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte: The change OFWs want to see

    May 13, 2016

    Dear President Duterte,

    We congratulate you on your overwhelming victory in the May 2016 polls. The Filipino people have spoken, and they chose change.

    You sweeping victory is testament to how Filipinos, wherever we are in the world, thirst for a new leadership that is not corrupt and cacique. We want a new government that will depart from all the failures and empty promises of the so-called ‘tuwid na daan’. We want accountability for all the crimes committed by the Aquino government against the Filipino people.

    For these elections, despite and against all odds, a record-breaking 407,000 overseas Filipino voters exercised their right to vote and fulfilled their duty to the nation. This big increase is proof of overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs’) stake in the outcome of the May 2016 elections. It disproved all claims that there had been a growing apathy among our OFWs. We have once again proven how significant the OFW vote is.

    We are one with the Filipino nation in hoping that your presidency will immediately address fundamental problems that beset the country – widespread unemployment, lowest wages, contractualization, landlessness, lack of basic social services, corruption, violations of human rights and national sovereignty – the root causes of forced migration.

    We are one with all OFWs in hoping that your presidency will scrap the labor export policy that exploits our cheap labor and remittances but offers us nothing in return, especially in times of need. We will hold you to your promise to make OFWs your top-most priority in your labor agenda. We want new leaders who will be nurturing to OFWs and their families.  We want a new government that will uphold and protect our rights and welfare.

    We specifically call to your urgent attention the case of Mary Jane Veloso who remains on death row in Indonesia and others like her who have received no legal assistance from the previous administration; the immediate recall of notorious abusive and erring embassy officials, as well as accountability of high-level government officials responsible for the tanim-bala extortion scheme and other unresolved anomalies in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA); the urgent and full audit of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) funds and its immediate release to rightful OFW beneficiaries; the quick resolution of illegal recruitment and trafficking cases filed by countless OFW victims at the Department of Justice (DOJ), Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC); and, the scrapping of unnecessary fees that are viewed by our kababayans as nothing but ‘legalized kotong’, such as the abolition of the rubbish Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC), among others.

    We are very much open to hold a dialogue with you to further discuss urgent and fundamental OFW concerns, especially as the nation is set to commemorate Filipino Migrants’ Day on June 7.

    We dream of a society where families will need not be broken by the need to survive. We wish to come home to a country where there are opportunities for everyone to live decent and humane lives.

    Mr. President, these are the changes we want to see in your administration. ###

    For reference:
    Garry Martinez
    Chairperson, Migrante International
    0939-3914418


    Website: http://migranteinternational.org
    Office Address: #45 Cambridge St, Cubao, Quezon City
    Telefax: 911491