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COME October 26, 2015, hundreds of lumad from Mindanao will converge at the UP Campus. When the 700 or so lumad from Mindanao decided to stage their kampuhan in UP Diliman until November 1, 2015 to dramatize the plight of their communities currently under siege from militarization, they could not have chosen a more apt venue. There is the impression that the campus grounds are safe haven to those who are politically persecuted given the long tradition of upholding and defending the principle of academic freedom by generations of activists and citizens of the Diliman Republic.

(UPDATE 2 - 2:15 p.m.) The barangay captain of White Culaman in Kitaotao town, Bukidnon made good on his threat to shut down a tribal school in the village, leading around a hundred residents who broke down the fence and ordered the staff and students to leave Friday morning.

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This video depicts the real situation of Indigenous Peoples in military and paramilitary-infested communities in Km. 16, Han-ayan, Barangay Diatagon, Lianga,...

Wil je dat het geweld tegen de Lumad organisaties in de Filipijnen stopt, zodat ze zich kunnen blijven inzetten voor de rechten van de inheemse bevolking in de Filippijnen?Vind je dat het arbeiderscomité van de gemeente Palmeras in Colombia aantoont dat de strijd voor meer arbeidersrechten en milieubehoud hand in hand kunnen gaan?Bewonder je de pla

Vote for the Lumad on Mindanao. Their fight deserves a human rights award.

#stopthekillings #lumad #alcadev

The Lumads (collective name of 18 indigenous groups in Mindanao) have been nominated to the 2015 Human Rights Award organized by Stop the Killings, an alliance of Belgian trade unions, cause-orient...

Numerous huge cargo vessels from China continue to steal soil and mineral resources in Mindanao. A report said that local authorities are blind and have done no

'Panalipod: A Fund Raising Concert for the Lumad Evacuees in Mindanao' was held Tuesday at the KOA Treehouse in Cebu City.

The call for justice for the killing of Italian priest, Father Fausto Tentorio, PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) continues…

Four years ago the Italian father Fausto Tentorio was shot several times inside a parish compound in Arakan Valley, North Cotabato on October 17, 2011.The Special Investigating Team for Unsolved Cases found sufficient circumstantial evidences to file charges against Jimmy and Robert Ato and Jan Corbala, alias Kumander Iring, and four members of his Bagani group.However, up to now, no case was filed against the identified suspects. Where is the Italian embassy?

And what about the Dutch citizen Willem Geertman who was shot dead on July 3, 2012, in front of his office in San Fernando, Pampanga. What silence from the Dutch embassy?

#human rights

More indigenous people driven from homes in the Philippines. Displaced villagers allege harassment by soldiers

14 councilors of the City of Marikina just approved a City Resolution condemning series of Lumad killings in Mindanao. The said breakthrough City Ordinance, lobbied by Bayan Metro Manila, is principally sponsored by Marikina City Councilor Joseph Banzon. The passing of the Resolution in Marikina only marks start of more LGU's in Metro Manila to file similar initiatives. This is also part of the preparation for the upcoming #Manilakbayan2015 that will highlight people of Mindanao to travel going to Metro Manila starting October 19.

#stopkillinglumads

In a July 13, 2015 column published in the Philippine Star, writer-poet Lila Shahani wrote: “Over the years, they (Talaingods) have faced steady encroachment and dispossession from Manila-based logging companies. The most notorious of these has been Alcantara & Sons, part of a larger conglomerate, Alsons Incorporated, headquartered in Makati. Since 1994, the company had allegedly sought to displace the Manobos and exploit their lands. Led by the legendary Datu Guibang Apoga, the Manobos succeeded in resisting the company’s initial forays with just traditional weapons. Datu Guibang has since been declared a fugitive.”

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