The film made by Mindanaons (Director Arbi Barbarona hails from Davao) and portrayed by the Lumad themselves is enough representative of the Southern Filipino narrative located amid the hotbed of rebellion.
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‘We’re all challenged to defend the environment’ — Bibiaon Bigkay
She doesn’t fear Duterte’s threat of killing them all; she fears more the threat of seeing our natural resources, and the virgin forest, destroyed.
Four heroic women for Mother Earth
But hope springs eternal. Environmental defenders everywhere are tirelessly working to protect the last frontiers of nature and restore our despoiled environment.
Kin of slain Lumad youth ask DOJ to probe case
The family of slain Lumad youth Obello Bay-ao is appealing to the Department of Justice to investigate the case of his murder.
OFWs in HK launch coalition for defense of land on ‘Tribal Filipino Sunday’
“As much as you, migrant workers all around the world are dreaming of coming back home with your families, we share with you our dreams, for our right to education, right to self-determination, a democratic government, and a just society.”
Soldiers arrest a fieldworker of EU-funded human rights project
Julito Otacan’s work is crucial for the project to take hold and help the lives of the Lumad communities
Groups hold Duterte accountable for death of Lumad student in Davao del Norte
“He became the leader in his class. After school, he helped his father in tilling a piece of land.”
2nd Lakbayan of national minorities to protest killings, other attacks
Dubbed as Pambansang Lakbayan ng Pambansang Minorya, the members of national minorities under the flag of Sandugo are returning to Metro Manila on Thursday, August 31. They will camp out in UP Diliman, their main camp, and in two other satellite camps near other universities. They have scheduled mass meetings and delegations to various government offices until September 21, but they invite the public to meet with them in their camps or in their scheduled mass actions.
UPLB community welcomes Lakbayan delegates from Mindanao, Visayas
Similar tales of forced evacuation from their lands hounded the rest of the national minorities, spurring them to this second Lakbayan.
Mindanao’s Sandugo delegates to Lakbayan welcomed in Masbate
‘Masbate has no national minorities but its people share with them the same problems of landlessness, militarization, and harsh impact of mining operations.’
Lumad leaders, students to join SONA protest
The first group of Lakbayanis who will join the SONA rally arrive in UP Diliman.