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From YouTube: APRIL 27 2023 Statements Mable Elmore
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
4th Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
Vancouver
Kensington.
Thank
you
honorable
speaker
today,
April
27
will
be
proclaimed
as
Lapu
Lapu
day
in
BC.
The
history
of
the
Philippines
is
a
saga
of
unrelenting
resistance
against
foreign
colonization
and
domination.
It
is
an
unbroken
epic
of
struggle
for
Freedom
self-determination,
Independence
and
National
Sovereign
sovereignty.
The
Philippines
was
a
colony
of
Spain
for
more
than
300
years
and
based
on
historical
Accounts.
At
least
200
revolts
broke
out.
During
this
time,
Filipinos
took
up
arms
to
rebel
against
the
imposition
of
levees,
forced
labor,
land
grabbing
commercial
monopolies
and
other
unjust
practices.
A
502
years
ago,
this
day,
Lapu
Lapu
stood
unbowed
before
Invaders,
so
he
and
his
people
can
remain
free.
Lapu-Lapu
is
thus
recognized
as
the
first
national
and
Indigenous
hero
with
April
27
designated
as
a
special
holiday
in
the
Philippines.
The
legacy
of
Lapu-Lapu
runs
deep
in
the
psyche
of
Filipinos.
It
lives
in
their
deep-seated
value
of
bayanihan,
which
is
made
up
of
two
words
Bayan,
which
means
community
and
bayani,
which
means
Hiro.
Bayani
Han
is
the
communal
desire
and
act
of
helping
one
another
of
being
connected
with
others.