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   Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 17:49:18 JST Abolisyonista

   Apparently Emma Goldman advocated for Philippine independence from both Spain and the United States. She mentioned here she worked with a “junta” to secure Philippine independence. I'm more inclined to believe she is referring to the Cuban Junta active in the United States rather than the Hong Kong Junta, which had no presence in the United States. While it would have been cool to see Emma Goldman work with Filipino nationalists, I highly doubt she met with representatives of Aguinaldo…

   https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-living-my-life

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     Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 18:16:45 JST Abolisyonista

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     @big_louse I'm not aware of any Filipino Americans working on Philippine solidarity that early. Filipino America hadn't even been constituted yet as far as I know.

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     Senior Scab Apologetics Consultant for The Atlanti (big_louse@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 18:16:46 JST Senior Scab Apologetics Consultant for The Atlanti

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     @abolisyonista hmm, or maybe she just met a few Philippine radicals one time and that became "worked with the juntas"

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     Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 18:28:52 JST Abolisyonista

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     @big_louse Actually, scholarship on the early diaspora and their intellectuals and radicals is a bit of a cottage industry among Filipino historians. If this Filipino Junta in America existed, I'm pretty sure we'd know. Even the Philippine government funds this kind of history.

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     Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 18:55:26 JST Abolisyonista

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     @big_louse Yeah mass migration to the United States would only begin after the invasion and colonization. First as agricultural workers and servants, then as students. While there were Filipinos in the United States before the invasion of the Philippines, many of these have perhaps assimilated into Mexican or creole life rather than as Filipinos. Others in the Spanish period did study in the United States like José Rizal, but if they agitated for independence, we would have known about it.

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     Senior Scab Apologetics Consultant for The Atlanti (big_louse@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 18:55:27 JST Senior Scab Apologetics Consultant for The Atlanti

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     @abolisyonista yeah especially since she seems to be talking about pre US war with Spain like 1890's? She was in NY and Chicago in those years, i mean like maybe, maybe she met a Filipino one time lol as wave of migration to the US happened after 1900