Solidarity Message of Taiwan Committee for Philippine Concerns to Bugkos on its First General Assembly
Posted on 9月 23, 2007
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台菲友好協會致台灣比扣爾人民協會第一次大會賀詞
對即將於9月23日在台中正式成立的台灣比扣爾人民協會（Association of the People of Bicol- Taiwan, BUGKOS）組織，台菲友好協會（Taiwan Committee for Philippine Concerns, TCPC）發表正式賀詞。
Taiwan Committee for Philippine Concerns (TCPC) greets the opening of BUGKOS (Association of the People of Bicol- Taiwan) with its solidarity message.
Ugnayan the Migrant OCW and Immigrant Ministry,
Tanzih, Taichung, September 23, 2007
The Taiwan Committee for Philippine Concerns (TCPC) congratulates Bugkos on its first General Assembly. We would like to inform you that we will be ready to support your organization’s endeavors in any way we can.
TCPC is an association of Taiwanese individuals concerned with Philippine national issues on peace, human rights, and development. It has four committees’ namely indigenous peoples, labor, migrants/immigrants, and human rights.
Most of us have been in the Philippines on different occasions on the four concerns we mentioned. We come from the academe as teachers and students; labor, human rights and other groups. A number of us had and continue to advocate migrants and immigrant issues in Taiwan.
These include a campaign against the crackdown on undocumented migrant workers; support of the Formosa Plastic Corporation workers in Yun Lin County; the struggle and one night strike of Olitec workers in Neili, Taoyuan and many others. Some of us are also very active in promoting the rights and welfare of foreign brides.
We of course also advocate issues that confront the working people in Taiwan from the perspective of our individual organizations. This include the problems incurred by the neo-liberal policies of globalization such as liberalization, deregulation and privatization imposed on us by more advanced industrialized countries and which is implemented by our government. This is similar to what occurred to the Philippines and other labor sending countries to Taiwan whose effects are more telling than to us.
That is why Taiwan is also in a state of economic crisis. It is also the reason why Taiwan is importing migrant workers like you.
We hope that Bugkos be successful in contributing its share in advancing the rights and welfare of the migrant workers in Taiwan and that of the Filipino people. At the same time, we hope that it would also contribute in forging solidarity with migrant workers of other nationalities including with Taiwanese workers in Central Taiwan.
Long Live Bugkos!
Migrant and Local Working People Unite!
Long Live International Solidarity!
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There’s sure a lot of exchange students from Malaysian and the Philippines at my university. I don’t see as many taking up jobs in the surrounding area though. Many get scholarships from the Taiwanese government and they are generous scholarships!
Chris: Actually I don’t get what you mean. The migrant workers from the Bicol region in the Philippines who are mentioned in this article are not the Philippine students in Taiwan, they are not students who get scholarships.
The foreign or overseas Chinese students in Taiwan is worth of discussion, but it is far beyond the concern of this article and this blog. If you have any opinion on this, perhaps you can try to elaborate it as a full article, so we can understand more about what you were trying to say.