This Earth month FACES is being reborn.

You may have noticed we have been silent since the long difficult year of 2020. As a volunteer board, this past year has forced us to turn inward as we have given ourselves space to adjust to a new way of life and the multiple crises we have all faced. 

Through the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantine, the Black Lives Matter uprisings, and ongoing climate crisis, from wildfires in California that turned the skies orange to typhoons in the Philippines, we have had to to adjust, reflect, and reformulate FACES’ vision and programs in a new era. We have also seen our communities gripped by anti-Asian violence and continued police brutality against Black and Brown communities that bares heavily on our hearts. While yesterday's verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd has brought a small measure of accountability, we have seen police even now continue to commit heinous violence against Black people. The fight to transform unjust systems continues.

We send our love and solidarity to you all, our beloved community, through these difficult times. 

As the spring brings us hope we are excited to share a new vision of FACES for these times, rooted in our twenty-year history of building community, transnational solidarity, and care for the planet. In the months ahead we will roll out new, digital programs and actions you can take with us that we hope continue to tend our community through intergenerational education, culture, and environmental justice advocacy:

Advancing climate justice and nature-based education

Through intergenerational learning and mentorship across all ages, FACES will support the next generation of environmental justice leaders grounded in cultural identity and political analysis.

Strengthening relationships, fighting for justice

Through campaigns, solidarity with local and international allies, community education, and advocacy we will continue to build a connected movement for environmental justice.

Promoting cultural care and Indigenous solidarity

Rooted in cultural wisdom and allyship with Indigenous communities, we will continue to work with youth, elders, and knowledge-bearers to restore our Filipinx ancestral traditions and revitalize the practices we need to heal our communities and be in sacred relationship with the earth