#landislife

[anishinaabequay]

Asasaweminagaawanzh//chokecherry (Dakota speakers/learners, how do you say chokecherries/chokecherry bush?) #naturegram #minnestagram #midwestisbest #latergram #landislife #dakotacountry #prairieisland #prairie #dakotaland #chokecherry #ojibwemowin #nofilter

[landrightsnow]

The Indigenous Mbororo Community in Cameroon joined the global campaign for the protection of land rights during the International Earth day celebration

''Securing our land means securing our lives which implies a secure future''

[buildingbridges17-blog]

When I stand in my backyard in Oakland, California, I survey my two little garden boxes and handful of pots with a mix of pride, embarrassment and longing. Proud that the tomatoes overflowed for months, embarrassed that the worms in my compost bin died after three days, and longing for real space to cultivate food.

An ocean away, at the Salupongan School for Talaingod Manobo youth in Nasilaban, I was following a group of high school students out to their “backyard,” an expansive hilly terrain where thick green grass and banana trees grow out of the clay soil anywhere that hasn’t already been carefully cultivated. We spent about fifteen minutes weeding a hill with curved dull knives as long as my forearm – a task I had to be re-taught several times.

All of a sudden, we were planting the okra seeds our delegation had donated. The students quickly dug little holes and within twenty minutes, my group of ten teenagers had sewed seeds across the whole hill. Everywhere around us we could see the vegetables almost ready to harvest–some even planted with other expo delegations from last summer.

And yet despite the apparent aliveness of the land, every day at school, we ate rice flavored with instant noodles. The Lumad people we talked to all had trouble feeding their families even one meal a day.

Why? One Datu (tribal leader) told us if they have livestock and a thriving garden, the military will tag them as a member of the New People’s Army and harass them. Two villages over in Sambulungan, the community has been forced to evacuate so many times because of constant harassment by the AFP and the paramilitary group, the Alamara, they’re afraid to replant their farms, for fear they will be attacked and displaced again.

As much as I have a right to my little garden beds, the Talaingod Manobo and all indigenous people have more of a right to feed themselves by cultivating their own land. I long to come back to Nasilaban and see the garden overflow with rice, vegetables and fruit trees. I long to see the kids harvest side by side with their parents and feed their school, village and beyond. I long for them to teach us all the meaning of the expression “Land is Life.”

- Megan Zapanta, Anakbayan East Bay

[krishnasonza]

August 9 is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Year 2019 is marked as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. . . . “Ba, kah! Maduet en ta Pulangiyen ku. Hadi a maka punga ha maayad ha mga lalang. Yan kaw da mga seled tag basa hi inEnglish iman.😂” - - - Wherever life takes me, I will never stop finding ways to work and support the rights of my IP brothers and sisters. #Surigao2012. Young women of Talaandig tribe begins a dance of friendship and culture. This marked our visit to and conversation with a Mamanwa community displaced by one of the country’s biggest mining corporations. #BentelaDawSayuda #IPRights #Gaup #LandIsLife https://www.instagram.com/p/B07vKa_pq4HgWKE2QbYbfXfIEQpYzBPWmZ4PvA0/?igshid=o8dau39zi05t

[5elementssf]

Congratulations to PODER (People Organized to Demand Economic & Environmental Rights), on their grand opening of the largest urban farm in San Francisco, Hummingbird Farm, located in the Excelsior District.

[humblyhyphy-blog]

Day 41, “Ang lupa ay dahilan…” Land is the cause/reason… 📷 @sijackypo

[landrightsnow]

In Lamu, Kenya, we are fighting to protect our community, our land, and the resources on which we depend on for our livelihoods, which have for generations been sustainably managed by our diverse communities, and now are under threat from large-scale fossil fuel extractive infrastructure projects. The proposed coal plant would be the first in East Africa, and its smokestack would be the tallest building in the entire region!

[landrightsnow]

Land is live, that's why we want to save the earth. Land rights now!