“President Duterte, let your fellow Mindanawons march with you in your first SONA. Allow us to hold a rally near Batasan.”
Manilakbayan marches again, this time for the first Mindanaoan President’s SONA
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Under Aquino, political dissent is a crime
According to human rights group Karapatan, 85 percent of political prisoners were slapped with criminal charges, a clear violation of the Hernandez political doctrine, a Supreme Court jurisprudence that prohibits the criminalization of political dissent.
#Manilakbayan2015 | ‘We have affected the center’
“We bring home victory: the support of a broad range of people to the people’s resistance in Mindanao, which is also the Filipino people’s struggle.”
Unabated killings | Lumád stage indignation ritual at Camp Aguinaldo
Two weeks after the Manilakbayan arrived in Manila, another Lumád leader was killed by a paramilitary group, the Alamara, in Davao del Norte province.
#Manilakbayan2015 protest at LP headquarters
“Justice can’t be bought with politicking, with cheap tricks.”
Farmers, indigenous peoples thumb down expansion of oil palm plantations
The Philippine Coconut Authority’s (PCA) 2014 to 2023 road map has identified about a million hectares of potential oil palm farms. Ninety eight percent of these areas are in Mindanao.
Why the Left is fighting alongside the Lumad
What they refuse to recognize is that it is mainly the Left which has chosen to embrace the struggle of the Lumad compared to other political forces which sided with foreign capital and big business in the exploitation of our precious resources.
‘CHR whitewashing Lumád killings’ – youth solon
“What the CHR fails to show, is that the Lumad themselves are being targeted by the military – with or without the presence of the NPA.”
Kulamanon datu longs to farm again with sons
A Lumád leader from White Culaman village in Bukidnon just wants to return to the bucolic life, when there were no soldiers to ruin the peace.
‘To remember is to continue the struggle’
“Let us continue the tradition of remembering the missing, because otherwise, we would then face the bigger tragedy of forgetting – the disappeared, their struggle, and the highest sacrifice they gave for freedom and democracy.”
Manilakbayan thanks UP community with Narra trees
Narra is dubbed as the Philippines’ national tree. It is also indigenous in the country and noted for its superior strength, hardiness and resilience.