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On the League of Filipino Students in the United States
Friends and comrades mentioned to me that the League of Filipino Students in the US was commemorating its “tenth” anniversary. Colleagues who knew me from my LFS days and were also active during the struggle to bring down the US-Marcos dictatorship would chide me: weren’t you already active in the ‘seventies, and wasn’t the LFS around even longer than that? I would tell them, yes, of course. In fact, the LFS first came into being in the US in September 1983, not September 1997 as some have been quick to claim erroneously. For the benefit of comrades especially in the youth-student sector now playing an active role organizing for the national-democratic cause, I am contributing the following recollection to set the record straight:
Friends and comrades mentioned to me that the League of Filipino Students in the US was commemorating its “tenth” anniversary. Colleagues who knew me from my LFS days and were also active during the struggle to bring down the US-Marcos dictatorship would chide me: weren’t you already active in the ‘seventies, and wasn’t the LFS around even longer than that? I would tell them, yes, of course. In fact, the LFS first came into being in the US in September 1983, not September 1997 as some have been quick to claim erroneously. For the benefit of comrades especially in the youth-student sector now playing an active role organizing for the national-democratic cause, I am contributing the following recollection to set the record straight:
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