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Kababayan Fest 2008 - California's Great America: Pimped Ad
Category: Parties and Nightlife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnTGlLaXMGk Kababayan Fest 2008 - Saturday, July 5, 2008
Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara, California 95054
Kababayan Fest is one of the largest Filipino festivals on the West Coast.
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Forty five years ago, a Filipino exile in San Francisco by the name of Alex Esclamado started publishing a newspaper out of his garage. Esclamado and his family had fled the Philippines to escape the oppression of the martial law regime of the late President Ferdinand Marcos.

Esclamado, as part of the overseas Filipino anti-Marcos movement, initially named his paper The Manila Chronicle, which was in fact one of the major Philippine newspapers shut down by the regime. Later he would ren... Read More