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Celebrating our freedom: PH Independence Day
In the United States, Philippine Independence Day has acquired cultural awareness after the dawn of the 21st century. This holiday is celebrated among Filipinos in America and is now a huge event for many Filipino-Americans to rekindle their origin and heritage.
Filipinos around the world come together to celebrate Philippine Independence Day and to create awareness of the Philippine culture. Several main objectives are to raise funds for charity projects in the Philippines and the United States.
In Los Angeles, hundreds of Fil-Ams paraded through the Historic Filipinotown district last Saturday, June 4 to kick off Philippine Independence Day festivities happening throughout the entire month of June.
Last Sunday, June 5 was the Philippine Independence Council, Inc.’s (PIDCI) celebration in New York. In spite of the rain, thousands of people — both participants and spectators — walked through Madison Ave. from 36th Street to Madison Park.
This New York event is the oldest and biggest community parade and celebration of the Philippine independence outside Manila, which is now in its 34th year. The Philippine American Communities of the East Coast initiated the parade in 1972 on Madison Avenue. Today, that community celebration has become a tradition with the growing generations of Filipinos in the east coast. (AJPress)
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