From the countryside to the city: Lakbayan and the Philippine revolution
Lakbayan ‘transports’ the struggle from the remote to the center.
Lakbayan ‘transports’ the struggle from the remote to the center.
The Lakbayan camp is like a river junction from where water rushes stronger towards a new direction.
“The people are fed up with the killings and continuing plunder of the country’s resources.”
“He can threaten the people with Martial Law using the Left as scapegoat, like what Marcos did, but it still will not deter the people from gathering in public places to voice their indignation.”
The interests of national minorities are in place in the NDFP proposal for social and economic reforms.
“Duterte continued the War on Terror policy which carried terrorism in our country and the whole world.”
“These killings show how this climate of impunity being pushed by the government is taking away our young people.”
MANILA -- Pya Malayao, council member of Sandugo alliance of Moro and indigenous peoples, received this morning a threatening call from a man who identified himself as Mark. Saying he is an intelligence operative of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency,...
“We condemn the Dawlah Islamiya in Marawi, but the US-Duterte regime is a bigger terrorist.”
“We came here to demand justice,”
The heroes of the people are best remembered by following their example.
A Marawi City evacuee tells of the hardship of searching for his kin under martial law in Mindanao.
“The indigenous peoples are driven out of their ancestral lands, to hunger, to scarce nutrients and agricultural land for planting food, to thirst as they steadily get deprived of water.
“All of Duterte’s wars are really against the people.”
Similar tales of forced evacuation from their lands hounded the rest of the national minorities, spurring them to this second Lakbayan.
The Lumad Lakbayanis from Southern Mindanao were held by Coast Guard authorities in Butuan City Port on August 21 as they were about to board the ship to Cebu.
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