‘We adapt or we suffer’ – Marcos

honor at its headquarters in Mandaluyong City.

SEVERAL Asian American community and civil rights organizations recently announced the launch of the Asian American Voter Empowerment Project (AAVEP) in an effort to increase voter education and registration in Los Angeles.

Officially launched on Saturday, May 20 at Eagle Rock Plaza, the project from the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California (PWC), LEAD Filipino, and Asian Business Association Foundation, with the support of CAUSE, AAPI’s for Equity, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), brings together a major and comprehensive sitebased voter registration program across Los Angeles.

The launch of AAVEP is a non-partisan and site-based voter registration program to be spearheaded by multiple Filipina/x/o and Asian American serving nonprofit organizations that will aim to register eligible Asian American voters historically excluded from voter registration and education efforts with the densely populated and often hardto-reach areas of Los Angeles.

Asian Americans are among one of the

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday, May 22 said the government will have to implement programs addressing climate change or the country will suffer from its whiplash.

Marcos said the government will ramp up cooperation with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to effectively implement the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2023-2028, with emphasis "on climate and its intimate relation to the people" and the country's future.

Citing data from the 2022 World Bank report, he said that "climate change will continue to pose a threat to the Philippines."

"Our country recently topped the World Risk Index 2022 which means that we have been found to have the highest disaster risk among the 193 countries on the planet. A highly undesirable distinction that we somehow have come into," he said during the reception hosted by the ADB in his

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"Set against the backdrop of all these worries from realities and statistics, the whole point is the climate change agenda is compelling, not only for the Philippines but for the rest of the world. Our options are limited, we must mitigate, we must adapt, and if we don't do that we must suffer," Marcos warned.

Addressing the impact of climate change is one of the president's priorities, having  PAGE 2