I can feel so much for the Filipina mom and her daughter as the latter’s ex-boyfriend tried to extort money so the video uploaded in youtube would be removed. She is lucky because police operatives located the ex-boyfriend. The sad thing here is the video already spread through the internet. She is forever shamed.

Lately, two filipinas became victims of an unauthorized video being spread across the internet. One of the victims is Katrina Halili, the ex-lover of Haydn Kho. Katrina Halili filed a complaint against Kho at the headquarters of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), accusing Kho of filming his sexual encounter without her consent. She is “willing to face all this embarrassment so that other people may learn. I want to fight back because I don’t want this to happen to me again or to other women,” she said. (Source: Inquirer.net)

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Update May 21- Alec Baldwin Apologizes

Alec Baldwin’s joke about getting a Filipino mail-order bride provoked a sharp response in the Philippines, with one senator saying Monday that the “30 Rock” star faces violence if he ever visits.

Baldwin, 51, who is divorced with a teenage daughter, said in a May 12 interview on “The Late Show” with David Letterman that he would love to have more children.

The Emmy-winning actor quipped that he was “thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point … or a Russian one.”

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Okay, Alec Baldwin is probably not aware that we have a law banning Mail Order Marriages that facilitating or arranging a marriage between a Filipina and a foreigner has been prohibited under Republic Act 6955 or the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law of 1990. The law “declare(s) as unlawful the practice of matching Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals on a mail order basis and other similar practices, including the advertisement, publication, printing or distribution of brochures, fliers, and other propaganda materials in furtherance thereof and providing penalty therefore.”

Jean Enriquez, executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-Asia Pacific, says that “…Joking about mail-order brides... is trivializing human smuggling.”

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What an awesome, beautiful voice from a small big singer with a very big heart and big dreams. When she sings this song, I feel every word of her message. Her appearance on Oprah may vault her career and her new single to a new level. Note To God was written by bestselling songwriter Diane Warren and produced by David Foster. The song was originally recorded by pop singer JoJo in 2006.

Charice Pempengco now goes by one name Charice in her career in Hollywood, like Jojo and Beyonce.

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My sister, Myrna de Vera, sent an announcement in Facebook that she had won the “Mother of the Year” Award. Curious, I clicked on the link — and was totally enthralled by the present being given to mothers worldwide.

See for yourself how Filipina moms were honored. Click here — and enjoy the positive power of media:

My own Facebook greeting was also tongue-in-cheek:

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers with biological children, adopted children, and would-have-had-children-but-made-the-worlds-children-their-children! Including the men who are “Mr. Mom!” Gotta be inclusive in my greeting!

I also received an email from the organizers of THE MOTHER OF THE YEAR AWARD.

From: Joan Blades, MomsRising for CNNBC
Date: Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Subject: Making the day of millions of moms
To: Lorna Dietz

Thanks for sending the “Mother of the Year” video to some of your favorite moms. You’ve really been part of something big: already the the award video has been sent to more than 4,500,000 moms! And we still have today and tomorrow to get this video to millions more.

We’re setting a goal of sending this well-deserved award to an incredible ten million moms.

I’ll bet you know more moms who’d love to see themselves in this video. Or more friends who’d like to send it to moms they know. Can you send it on again? Just send on this email or go to:

http://news.cnnbcvideo.com

We’ve been flooded with notes about how much people love getting the award video. A mom wrote us to say, “I don’t know what was funnier, the newscast or my son repeatedly asking, ‘Is that real? Is it real?’ while I’m wiping tears from the corners of my eyes.” Another wrote, “I sent to my best friend. She’d had a breakdown on an L.A. highway and she said it made her horrible day GREAT.” One prominent blogger wrote, “Honestly, this video is beyond a home run. It is the first thing in a long time I’ve wanted to send to each and every person I know!”

And if you’ve run out of great moms to send this award video to, send this link along to friends who might not have heard about this yet, so they can make sure their moms and moms they know are honored on Mother’s Day.

It a win/win—make your friends and family laugh and blush while you help us grow this movement for moms and families.

Thanks so much,

–Joan, Kristin, Mary and the whole MomsRising team

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