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- Seattle's Filipino Community Nearly Lets Rizal Day Slip
A local editorial asks why no one is organizing the annual celebration of the Philippines' national hero—and who will foot the bill.
- Broke at the End of Every Cannery Season: A Filipino Columnist's Plea for a Savings System
Writing for Seattle's Filipino community in 1928, Macario C. Rebodos traces the hard cycle of Alaskan cannery work and agricultural harvests — money earned, money spent, and pawnshops waiting at the end of it — and argues that an endowment policy is the only discipline that will break it.
- Bremerton's Filipinos Organize, and a Japanese Host Preaches Solidarity
At an informal dinner in Bremerton, a new Filipino Progressive Association installs its officers — and hears a local Japanese businessman argue that the 'brown race' can only reach its goals through Filipino-Japanese unity.
- A Chinese Student's 1929 Speech Named the Racism Washington Tried to Forget
At the University of Washington's Cosmopolitan Club, Wesley Kai Hwa Kwang catalogued a century of anti-Chinese violence — including the 1885 killings in Squak Valley and the burning of Tacoma's Chinatown — and asked a white audience to account for it.