Listen 4:00 Economic hardship and discrimination affects Filipinos. These Gen Z activists are helping Social justice groups are starting new satellite groups, outside central LA, to help Filipinos in the San Fernando Valley.

Social justice activists who’ve wanted to help Filipinos have traditionally gravitated toward well-known communities near downtown L.A., Carson, Cerritos and other cities. But some Gen Z Filipinos are going straight to the San Fernando Valley, a lesser known enclave where people also need help.

I talked to two of them, Rica Roque and Gigi Gonzales-Palmer, at the Panorama Woodman Center, a strip mall where businesses are now mostly owned by Filipinos. Around us, bakeries and markets were selling prepared Filipino dishes and imported products from the Philippines

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