Everything's Political

Founded 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...

Mabuhay 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...

Mabuhay 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 me...

Mabuhay 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 1970...

Mabuhay 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 th...

Mabuhay 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 g...

Mabuhay 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 jus...

Mabuhay 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'...

Mabuhay 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...

Mabuhay! 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 t...

This 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.&n...

Mabuhay 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! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lahat_konektado_podcast/  https://www...

Mabuhay 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 t...

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 g...

Mabuhay 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...

Mabuhay 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...

Mabuhay 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 g...

Our 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 anot...

I 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...

Mabuhay 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.

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...

Mabuhay 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 get...