#stoplumadkillings

[anakbayannewyork]

Yesterday, Anakbayan New York joined the International Coalition for Human Rights of the Philippines (@ichrp_us) in condemning the Mindanao Indigenous People’s Council of Elders (MIPCEL) in selling out ancestral domain to private corporations for kickbacks, and harassing and red-tagging Lumad schools and clearing their communities to make way for mines and plantations. In this fight against the militarization of indigenous land, we call for Filipinos to join us for the People’s State of the Nation Address on July 22nd as we call for the cut of US aid going to military and police in the Philippines, and end the corporate plunder of our land! . 📸: Henry Luna . #StopLumadKillings #EndForcedDisplacement #EndMartialLawInMindanao #DefendSovereignty #Rise4Rights https://www.instagram.com/p/BzesvkzgGZE/?igshid=thoo6i69n8lq

[iamherbalaria]

🌏International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: Year of Indigenous Languages _ 🌍It is estimated that, every 2 weeks, an indigenous language disappears, placing at risk the respective indigenous cultures and knowledge systems. That is why, on this International Day, the goal is to draw attention to the critical loss of indigenous languages and the urgent need to preserve, revitalize and promote them at both national and international levels. (https://www.un.org/en/events/indigenousday/ @unitednations _ 🌿What is Ancestral Roots Movement? Our Definition:  A movement towards the preservation and protection of our rights as indigenous people to live on ancestral lands, to practice our medicinal & spiritual traditions, to speak our minds, to be visible with employment equality, access to clean water resources and healthcare, and to simply be treated as humyn beings. _ 🌿Herbalaria is an ancestral roots movement company connecting community to indigenous healing traditions through the art of Filipino plant medicine.  It’s our mission to bring awareness, value and recognition to our cultural healing practices. We support local farmers and businesses who are of indigenous roots in Mindanao and the Visayas. We support cultural healers and practitioners, advocating the preservation of their practices. This photo is of T'Boli children in South Cotabato, in Lake Sebu, Mindanao. Photo credit: Lyn Pacificar. _ 🌎What’s your definition? What are you doing to become more rooted in your own traditions?  How do you re-member your ancestors, their lands, their lives and their languages? _ 📸Create a picture post telling us your answer (not video). Tag us, three other people, and use #ancestralrootsmovement. We will repost answers to our stories and/or feed! _ #weareindigenous #IndigenousPeoplesDay #indigenouslanguages #ancestralrootsmovement #UNDRIP #herbalaria #filipinoshaman #katuuran #albularya #rememberyourancestors #ProtectMaunaKea #StopLumadKillings #Native #indigenous #tboli (at Lake Sebu, South Cotabato) https://www.instagram.com/p/B098M-GBHR0/?igshid=13vheulrulr06

[survivalarts]

Sacred Survival Sisterhood calling in the ancestors. Salamat | Agyamanak to all the beautiful warriors that showed up for themselves and brought such powerful energy. Reflecting deeply about our time together. Recalling and re-membering the spirit of the Babaylan, reclaiming our roots, and connecting our bodies to Kali. We train and fight in solidarity with the struggles of Hawai’i, Mindanao, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Sudan, Chiapas, Standing Rock, and all those fighting for liberation. Strength to all our peoples in the struggle for food and land sovereignty, and protection of all that is sacred. Love to our Warrior Sistars that are rising in fortitude. We offer our medicine tomorrow in an all-day training / healing retreat with @jlcreator @mama_maiz in the sacred space of @flora_y_tierra. Gratitude to Mother Earth for nourishing us. 🌿🌳⚔️✨ . . . . #SacredSurvivalSisterhood #Oakland #protectthesacred #MaunaKea #Hawaii #Palestine #PuertoRico #Mindanao #StopLumadKillings #StandingRock #SudanUprising #EZLN #survivingviolenceeverywhere #weriseanyway #pilipinafightingarts #decolonizingPTK #indigenousrising #solidarity #sisterhoodissacred #selfdetermination #ProtectTheFamily #WarriorWomxn #floraytierra #tongva #longbeach #Kali #SurvivalArts (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0K7D8JA6JH/?igshid=173l3i9lm3npj

[micahrimando]

Ang pinapangarap ng mga batang katutubo: Libro, hindi bala! Edukasyon, hindi giyera! Ngayong pandaigdigang araw ng paggunita sa karapatan ng kabataan, nararapat lang na patuloy na ipanawagan ang pagpapaigting sa mga karapatang pantaong dapat tinatamasa ng mga bata. Ang pambansang minorya, isa sa mga pinakamarhinalisadong grupo sa bansa, ay patunay ng masidhing karahasan at kahirapan sa bansa, sa kabila ng nag-uumapaw na mga likas na yaman. Bagaman isinabatas ang Indigenous People's Right Act (IPRA) of 1997, at kahit kasama ang Pilipinas sa United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples (UNDRIP), patuloy pa rin ang pagsasamantala sa kanila, kasama ang kakulangan sa mga batayang serbisyong-panlipunan, katulad ng mga karapatan sa maayos na kalusugan at edukasyon. Ayon sa Minority Rights Group, karamihan sa mga hindi nag-aaral na kabataan ang mga katutubo. Pahirapan ang pag-abot ng edukasyon para sa mga katutubo, dahil kinakailangan nilang bagtasin ang kilo-kilometrong mga ilog, at mapanganib na mga bundok. Bukod dito, nakakatanggap pa sila ng diskriminasyon sa sistema ng edukasyon na hindi naka-akma sa kanilang mga kultural na pangangailangan bilang mga katutubo. Sa kabutihang palad, nariyan ang mga organisasyon katulad ng Alcadev at Save Our Schools Network na nagtutulungan sa pagbibigay-daan sa alternatibong sistema ng edukasyon na nagsusulong ng makabayan, siyentipiko, at makamasang tipo ng pag-aaral. Gayunpaman, patuloy na napapasubo ang kabatang mag-aaral dahil sa mga atake ng mga militar at paramilitar na grupong nanghihimasok sa mga komunidad ng Lumad. Talamak ang pangreredtag, ang pagparatang sa mga kabataang kasapi o may kinalaman sa NPA, na nagdudulot ng pagkawala at pagkamatay ng marami sa mga katutubo, at nagdudulot ng trauma o pagkatakot sa mamamayan. Nariyan din ang pambobomba, pananakot at panghaharas, paninira ng mga paaralang-Lumad, at paggamit ng mga pasilidad ng kanilang mga paaralan para sa pangmilitar na mga operasyon . Mayroon ding pagbabantang isasara ang kanilang mga paaralan. Sa kabila ng lahat nito, hindi dapat magpadaig, at patuloy na nangangarap at aktibong kumikilos ang kabataang-Pilipino para sa mas makatarungan at mapayapang lipunan. -- As we celebrate international children's day to recognize the rights of children, it is just right to continue the call for the strengthening of human rights that the Filipino children deserve. The national minorities, one of the most marginalized group in the country, is proof of the worsening violence and poverty in the Philippines, in spite of the fact that we have overflowing natural resources. Although we have the Indigenous People's Right Act (IPRA) of 1997 and although we are part of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples (UNDRIP), the exploitation and killings continue, along with the lack of basic social services such as rights for proper health and education. According to the Minority Rights Group, most of the out-of-school children belong to the indigenous people. It is extremely hard to finish education as an IP, as they have to endure crossing kilometers of rivers and dangerous mountains. Aside from this, they often receive discrimination in an educational system not tailored to their cultural needs and sensitivities. Fortunately, there are organizations like Alcadev and Save Our Schools Network that help each other to make way for an alternative education that strives for a national, scientific and mass-oriented education. However, the students continue to suffer because of the continuing attacks of military and paramilitary groups that forcibly enters their communities. Red-tagging and the accusation of Lumad children as members of the NPA causes enforced disappearances and killings of IPs, also causing trauma and fear among the communities. There are also aerial bombings, intimidation and harassment, destruction of school facilities, and use of school facilities for military operations. There is also a threat of closure for their schools. Despite all these, the Filipino children must remain firm, and continue to dream and actively partake in the fight for a more just and peaceful society. 

Digital Painting. November 21, 2018. Sanggunian:

La Viña, T., & Mercado, N. G. (2018, October 20). [OPINION] Coffee and the blood of indigenous peoples. Retrieved from https://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/214549-coffee-blood-of-indigenous-peoples?   

Rappler.com. (2017, August 9). INFOGRAPHIC: Who are the Lumad? Retrieved from https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/178181-infographic-lumad-indigenous-peoples

Republic Act No. 8371 | GOVPH. (1997, October 29). Retrieved from http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1997/10/29/republic-act-no-8371/?fbclid=IwAR0vzVKJGH4F1CXdDM25emm8kDCBreWRDmO420PzAVsa6rypalVsg3ODUrM

[wocinsolidarity]

#JustPeacePH Peace Tour 2017 Events Across the U.S.

The JustPeacePH Peace Tour 2017 is an educational speaking tour that aims to promote grassroots movements for peace with justice and to gain support for the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

Featuring four speakers:

Dulphing Ogan, Secretary General of Kalumaran (Kusog sa Katawhang Lumad sa Mindanao); 

Edre Olalia, Legal Consultant of the Peace Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the NDFP and President of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers;

Tinay Palabay, Secretary General of KARAPATAN Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights;

Josephine Pagalan of Kasalo Caraga.

Experts in the historic social, economic and political issues which have given rise to the civil war in the Philippines, the NDFP consultants will speak to US audiences about the history, content, and significance of the peace negotiations and the Filipino people’s struggle for a just peace. One highlight of their presentations is that they will speak specifically about the content of the CASER, which is the agenda item currently being negotiated and which gets at the meat of the issues which must be resolved by the NDFP and GRP.

JustPeacePH is an international platform which supports the Philippine peace process. It has special emphasis in reaching out to individuals, organizations and institutions which have advocacies on peace and issue-based people’s concerns in various capacities outside of the country. In particular, JustPeacePH aims to seek support from individuals and organizations in multilateral organisations, people’s organisations, civil society organisations, academe, development institutions as well as governments. The overall objective of JustPeacePH is: To create an international network or platform to support peace negotiations between NDF and GPH and support the people’s aspirations for just and lasting peace.

There are a number of events that have happened / are still happening across the United States over the next few weeks, that I would definitely encourage you to go to! 

Click this link for a full listing of events happening in California, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and St. Louis until May 7th, 2017.

[anakbayanlb]

Happening right now: we are speaking at a forum in with the Muslim Student Association in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Catch us now at LA4-120! #internationalsolidarity #csulbpaw2017 #stoplumadkillings #justpeaceph (at California State University, Long Beach)

[buildingbridges17]

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

[elmerdomingo]

#StopLumadKillings

[forcommunities]

#indigenousrights #stoplumadkillings Learn more @salupongan.international 💫Latepost #saveourschools benefit @bindlestiff_sf 12/16/17 @babiicris @kuyachris @lmnterry @sullivanrachele (at Bindlestiff Studio)

[streetedits]

[leviwebsite]

#Lakbayan2017

[studioghiblikid]

Siblings #WhenInBukidnon #StopLumadKillings #lateupload (at Impasugong, Bukidnon, Philippines)

[jeklog]

#stoplumadkillings #humanrights #graffiti (at Old Balara Quezon City)

[singingsunshine]

Ang kagitingan ay taglay ng mga Pilipinong patuloy na lumalaban para sa mga mamamayan, at lalong higit, para sa bayan!

Ang tao ang bayan, ngayon ay lumalaban!

#ArawNgKagitingan #ChinaLayas #StopLumadKillings #StopKillingFarmers

[micahrimando]

Naglalaho. Nauubos. Nawawala. Itigil ang patuloy na pagpaslang sa mga katutubong Pilipino at pagkitil sa kanilang mga karapatang-pantao! Hanggang ngayon, nananawagan ang mga katutubo na pakinggan at bigyang-tugon ang kanilang mga hinaing. Sa Barangay Ucab sa Itogon, Benguet, patuloy na nagdurusa ang mga katutubong Kankanaeys dahil sa panghihimasok ng mga nagmiminang korporasyon. Sa Surigao, patuloy ang pag-atake sa mga Lumad, ang pagpatay sa kanilang mga pinuno, at ang pagbantang isasara ang kanilang mga paaralan. Mismong ang pangulo pang si Duterte ang nagbantang bobombahan ang kanilang mga komunidad. Nariyan din ang pagpatay kay Datu Victor Danyan sampung buwan ang nakaraan dahil sa pakikibaka sa lupa at laban sa panghihimasok ng DMCI sa South Cotabato, Mindanao.

Samu't saring pang-aapi at pandarahas ang natatanggap ng mga katutubo: panghihimasok at pagsasamantala sa mga lupain ng mga katutubo at mga likas na yaman na nagreresulta sa patayan; landgrabbing na nagdudulot ng displacement at patayan; diskriminasyon at pagyurak sa karapatang pantao katulad ng name-calling, red-tagging, atbp.; at pagrekruta ng mga puwersang-gobyerno at iba pang armadong grupo sa nakababatang katutubo at paggamit sa mga katutubo ayon sa interes nila at ng mga naghaharing-uri —na nagdudulot ng patayan sa pagitan ng mga katutubo. End the continuous killings of Filipino indigenous people, and the violation of their human rights. Until now, the indigenous people still call to be heard, and their pleas to be answered. In Barangay Ucab, Itogon, Benguet, their suffering continues with the entry of mining corporations. In Surigao, the attacks on Lumads continue, along with the killing of their leaders, and the warning for closure of their schools. President Duterte even warned their communities would be bombed. There's also the killing of Datu Victor Danyan, 10 months ago, because of ancestral land dispute and the entry of DMCI in South Cotabato, Mindanao. Various offenses and violence are received by the indegenous people: forced entry and exploitation of natural resources that results to killings, landgrabbing that causes displacement and bloodshed, discrimination and violation of human rights such as name-calling, red-tagging, etc.; and the recruitment by government forces and other armed forces of young indigenous people for their own interests, along with the interests of the ruling classes— causing killings between the natives.

Babaeng Lumad. Digital painting. October 30, 2018.

Sanggunian:

La Viña, T., & Mercado, N. G. (2018, October 20). [OPINION] Coffee and the blood of indigenous peoples. Retrieved from https://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/214549-coffee-blood-of-indigenous-peoples?  

Statement for the Celebration of the Indigenous Peoples Month, October 2016. (2016, October 13). Retrieved from http://www.napc.gov.ph/articles/statement-celebration-indigenous-peoples-month-october-2016?throbber=1 

Watts, J. (2018, July 21). 'I tended to the bodies': Attacked by the Philippine army. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/21/philippines-lives-land-lost-coffee-empire-militarised-politics

[save-lumad-schools]

“In the evacuation camps, I taught “hangman" once to help a few girls practice English vocab and days later, walked into their "dorm" to find they were using it to study with other students. Went to boys dorm and they were playing it on their chalkboard too! It's a game whose morbidity most Americans are desensitized to, including myself. I almost regretted using it. But at the same time, dark but relevant content and humor in their learning system is common. This game made sense to them. 🔺As much as they hate English vocab, they don't wanna see yet another person die an unjust death!🔺#stopLumadkillings”