Written by Norman Madrid - Feb 10, 2008 at 12:50 AM    Dr. Emelita de Guzman Breyer is a highly-educated, competent, well-published Filipina chemistry assistant professor whose advancement within Georgia State University has been blocked because of racial bias.

She has filed a suit against GSU and members of the Board of Regents for their action. Particulars on her case are found at:

http://www.emelita-breyer.com/4.html

Her case has been championed by a CBS reporter on Georgia TV, the Organization of Chinese Americans, the Asia Pacific Council, the Filipino American Association in Atlanta, the National Federation of Filipino Associations in America (NAFFAA), the Healthcare-Coalition Institute, a Filipino web site, www.mabuhayradio.com in Los Angeles, and the 80-20 Initiative run by Chinese that donated $1,000 to the Breyer cause before Christmas last year.

The CBS reporter has said in his two reports that the GSU action is a case of classic discrimination. 

Let us, Filipinos, join Emelita's cause through  both funding and/or letter writing.

Her case is proceeding in three stages.  The first stage, the Discovery Phase, consists of an Interrogatory phase that has been completed and a Deposition phase that will take place in March and for which money and community support for Dr. Breyer is much needed. 

The Deposition phase will prepare materials that will be crucial to whether her case will prosper or will fail in the second phase, called the Summary Judgment phase, which will occur in April. 

The Deposition phase is the most critical part of Dr. Breyer's case.  It consists of two parts.  First, expert and peer and medical testimony along with legal advice must be had, complete with the videotaping of relevant testimonials and materials.  This effort will cost an estimated $25,000.  Second, letters and signatures from all over America but especially Georgia will need to be collected as part of the materials prepared during the Deposition phase.  

These materials will be used to make progress in the second phase of the case, the Summary Judgment phase, in which a judge will decide for or against Emelita concerning two pleas: 

          a) For dismissal--the plea of the Defendants, and

          b) For continuation to a Jury Trial--the plea of Emelita, the Plaintiff.

 
If the judge will decide for Emelita Breyer-- for a jury trial in June, which would be the third phase of her case --Emelita's chance will be strong to win punitive damages against the GSU Board of Regents.  

She could win a multi-million dollar award by this June or July.

The judge will decide for Emelita during the Summary Judgment phase only if she, and her lawyer, and we, will all contribute towards the compilation of an impressive, professional and winning set of Deposition materials.

What Can You Do/ Must Do Now (this February):  Two Things

1.  Contribute $125 or more or less

You must be among 200 or more Filipinos who will each contribute $125 on average-- more hopefully by wealthier Filipinos, and less by not so wealthy Filipinos.   Go to the Web site of Emelita Breyer to donate that amount using your credit card.  I am myself giving $125, and will give $125 more before the end of February, if needed.  Her website again:

http://www.emelita-breyer.com/4.html

If 200 or more Filipinos will send the $125 or more or less, then there will be a $25,000 war chest for Emelita.  This amount must be had this week or next week, so that the effort during the Deposition Phase in March will be thorough, speedy, complete, and accurate, and will be legally overwhelming during the Summary Judgment phase.

2.  Participate in a Letter Campaign

The judge who will find for or against Emelita will make his decision in part based on community support.  The judge will not dismiss Emelita's case summarily, if he detects strong community support.  Evident support from Filipinos, other Asians, blacks and whites--will make the judge rule very carefully based on all the facts.  The judge will fear strong community backlash in case of his or her careless judgment.  On the other hand, the absence of community support will mean that the judge could possibly drop Emelita as just another inconsequential plea, and decide in favor of GSU and its Regents.

To help with Emelita's letter-writing campaign, go to her website for templates of letters to write, and the addresses of people to write to. 

The Rewards That We Filipinos Could Gain if Emelita Wins a Multi-Million Award

If Emelita wins her jury case, and it appears she would, she would get a sizable, well-deserved, award.  Juries usually accept that the unjust in America must be penalized big enough to feel the pain of their punishment, and that the oppressed must be compensated for injury to their health, minds, finances, reputation.  The award must be punitive; that is, sizable.

In that case, there will be informal celebratory fourth stage in which Dr. Breyer will claim her reward and will also share some of it, she says, with her supporters.  Her rationale is that her supporters must have some money in the future, perhaps 15% of any award that she wins,  to fund legal actions against the oppression of U.S. minorities--Asian, Black, Indian, Hispanic, and women--that will continue as long as they occupy lower economic or political or racial positions in America. 

There it is Filipinos of America.  Stand up and be counted, and if Emelita wins, we will in turn win--perhaps will win $100,000 or $500,000 to fund the setting up of two organizations helpful to Filipinos in the future:

1.      FFFLOW = Fighting Filipino Fund for Legal Offense Worldwide.   

As long as Filipinos are poor and must work abroad, some will be exploited, enslaved, raped, killed by foreign employers.   FFFLOW will be there to protect them, make money for them, make money for FFFLOW to sustain its efforts.

2.       FFFIRE = Fund for Filipinos Fighting Internationally to Rise at Economics

As long as Filipinos are poor and must work abroad, their exploitation overseas won't end.  So, fight to make Filipinos rich by winning globally in their own country through victories at export wars.  Some of the court awards won by FFFLOW at legal offensives should be invested in FFFIRE.

FFFIRE can turn Filipinos into global winners in their own country by fighting not as above, in 2, but as a Mutual Fund winning at investments as below in 3. 

3.     FFFIRE =  Investment Fund For Food, Infrastructure, Retirement and Exports

• Such a mutual fund could be highly saleable. 
• Already the Fidelity family of mutual funds, the biggest mutual fund operation in the world, operates a well-known  Fideltity Infrastructure and Export Fund. 
• So, we broaden the Fund a little with Food and Retirement Services in the portfolio. 
  •  
    • It could become a highly profitable mutual fund operation winning investor dollars from global pension funds and other institutions to invest in Philippine development and progress.
• FFFIRE mutual fund would be organized and advised by EPIC, the Export & Prosper InvestorCorp, an organization of ordinary Filipinos (like you the reader; you are welcome to invest with EPIC--for your profit or loss) in partnership with Wall Street professionals who are FilAmericans, Filipinos,  Jews, Blacks, and WASPS (White, Anglo Saxon Protestants) and other nationalities pursuing export Tiger ideas and whose ideas are explained in the website:
• www.groups.yahoo.com/group/epic25.

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TO REPEAT:  THE CASE FOR DR. EMELITA BREYER 

Let us join Emelita's suit against Georgia State U and its Board of Regents for discrimination!  Since she has strong winning chances, we would join her case gainfully .

It is a cause we must get into it, because it will LIKELY cost the community nothing (if she wins), but instead will win justice for an offended Filipina.   If she wins, that would also benefit the Fil-Am community with substantial dollars that she will donate from her winnings to fund future economic progress and litigations.

 

Emelita is bright, articulate, hard working and a fighter.  From my talks with Emelita, I believe that I fully understand the nine key items in her case that encourage, embolden, and also challenge us to fight with her, and prod us to take three productive steps.  Here are the 9 items and the three productive steps: 

1. She has a strong, winning case for her;
   • an American TV reporter thinks so, and has aired her case on Atlanta TV, and
   • Chinese Americans have rallied behind her case and are now her most active supporters, in particular Mr. Albert Yin, head of the Organization of Chinese Americans and Mr. Joel Wong, head of the 80-20 Initiative
   • NAFFAA, the National Federation of Filipino Associations in America, has also thrown in its support personified by Alma Kern, national chairwoman, and Marilyn Doromal, head of NAFFAA for the Southeast.
   • Other Filipinos such as David Paraiso--head of the Healthcare-Coalition Institute, Bobby Reyes, editor of the www.MabuhayRadio.com web site in Los Angeles, Hecky Villanueva, a member of the Export & Prosper Investment Club, Dr. Villanueva in Atlanta, and Mr.  Willy Blanco, President of the Fil-Am association in Atlanta, have also joined in.
   • I believe that Emerito Salud and JT Malonga,  lawyers in the office of Constancio, Abad and Malonga at the Empire State Bldg in Manhattan, will also be able to get the NAACP behind Emelita. 
     • NAACP, or National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples, is considered to be the strongest force in America against discrimination cases.
     • JT Malonga is the regional Chairman of NAFFAA centered in New York
   • Emelita Breyer's website gives us some information on her case. I suggest others go into it. (By the way, Emelita is married to a German American who was her classmate in graduate school and is now a Senior Scientist at one of America's biggest paper making firms listed in Wall Street.) 
2. Emelita could get a multi-million dollar award from a jury trial. 
3. She is willing to give back a big part of her possible award to the community of Filipinos and other peoples that will support her case with funds and letters. 
4. in that case the amounts given back could fund more legal cases in the future that win money for Filipinos who are exploited;
5. But, before she could win her case, she needs at least  $25,000 in March to fund expenses for legal advice and expert and peer and medical testimony and video tapes of these testimonials to be developed during the Deposition Stage of her case that will unfold during March;
6. She is still short the $25,000
7. With the money, she could mount a strongly documented, expert-driven, video-modernized, and community-supported case that would persuade a judge to order in April, at the end of a Summary Judgment Stage, a jury trial for her during possibly June, 2008 
8. Without the money, her case could look weak and founder; the judge could order dismissal of the case. What a loss for Filipinos despite her and our Fil-Am community's very strong winning chances
9. Hence, a group of 200 or more Filipinos--physicians, nurses, lawyers, bankers, professionals-- must coalesce behind her with $125 contributions (or bigger or smaller) so that there $25,000 or $30,000 or more funds that would be a strong river of resources against the Georgia State U. Board of Regents that wants to keep Dr. Emelita Breyer bottled up and nicely exploited....
10. The money could be donated to her website by credit card;
11.  I hereby declare my donation of $125 for Emelita that I could possibly double later.
12. May others do the same thing-- donate money and then ask others for additional donations.

As a practical Filipino who believes not in defense but offense, I want us to win as in #2: several million dollars for her and 15% for the Fil-Am community and the Chinese Americans and others helping her. 

 

Then we could set up two organizations to handle two needed future tasks:

 

1.      FFFLOW = Fighting Filipino Fund for

                              Legal Offense Worldwide.   

 

As long as Filipinos are poor and must work abroad, some will be exploited, enslaved, raped, killed by foreign employers.   FFFLOW will be there to protect them, make money for them, make money for FFFLOW to sustain its efforts.

 

2.       FFFIRE = Fund for Filipinos Fighting
                         Internationally to Rise at Economics

 

As long as Filipinos are poor and must work abroad, their exploitation overseas won't end.  So, fight to make Filipinos rich by winning globally in their own country through victories at export wars.  Some of the court awards won by FFFLOW at legal offensives should be invested in FFFIRE.

 

FFFIRE can turn Filipinos into global winners in their own country by fighting not as above, in 2, but as a Mutual Fund winning at investments as below in 3. 

 

3.     FFFIRE = Investment Fund For Food, Infrastructure,
                   Retirement and Exports

• Such a mutual fund could be highly saleable. 
• Already the Fidelity family of mutual funds, the biggest mutual fund operation in the world, operates a well-known Fideltity Infrastructure and Export Fund. 
• So, we broaden the Fund a little with Food and Retirement Services in the portfolio. 
  •  
    • It could become a highly profitable mutual fund operation winning investor dollars from global pension funds and other institutions to invest in Philippine development and progress.
• FFFIRE mutual fund would be organized and advised by EPIC, the Export & Prosper InvestorCorp, an organization of ordinary Filipinos (like you the reader; you are welcome to invest with EPIC--for your profit or loss) in partnership with Wall Street professionals who are FilAmericans, Filipinos,  Jews, Blacks, and WASPS (White, Anglo Saxon Protestants) and other nationalities pursuing export Tiger ideas and whose ideas are explained in the website:
• www.groups.yahoo.com/group/epic25.

We have great potential  to end the global exploitation of Filipinos and advance their global success on three fronts: 

1) Dr. Emelita Breyer's case

2) FFFLOW and

3) FFFIRE.

Good luck to us and the Filipino people.

 

Norman Madrid

Economist,

Medici Tiger Capital LLC

New York City

www.groups.yahoo.com/group/epic25

516-385-2783

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