“I was accompanying 36 students of the Misfi academy when this happened. They also brought the students with me. We were interrogated.”
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Mindanao nuns to Aquino: ‘Leave the Lumád in peace’
“President Aquino, your heart is as hard as that of the Pharaoh who refused to end the oppression of God’s chosen people.”
Lumad school children, teachers hold mobile school outside DepEd office
“They are here now because Luistro did nothing when their schools were being shut down by the state and paramilitary forces.”
Education Sec. Luistro snubs Lumad children’s camp-out
The Save our Schools Network said Education Secretary Bro.Armin Luistro has become instrumental in the perpetration of attacks on schools all over Mindanao.
Manilakbayan 2015’s opening salvo
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Lumad extrajudicial killings and forced evacuations due to military and paramilitary forces rampaging across the indigenous people’s ancestral domain in the remaining frontiers of Mindanao have finally made its mark on the national public consciousness. The arrival of the Manilakbayan 2015, a contingent of more than 700 people who…
Lumad perform sacred ritual at UP Diliman
“Even in the middle of this very urbanized city, the Talabugta is there.”
Son of felled Lumad leader continues his father’s duties
The second in five children, he had to discontinue college at the University of Mindanao in 2009, after his father, Ludiño Monzon, was gunned down allegedly by soldiers from 67th Infantry Battalion in Boston, Davao Oriental, near a police station.
Asian indigenous groups urge Aquino to end Lumad killings
More than 70 indigenous organizations from across Asia urged President Benigno Aquino III to put an end to the killings and attacks against the Lumad of Mindanao.
#Manilakbayan2015 | ‘Aquino accountable for Lumád killings’
“We are here to bring the bad news of the attacks on the people of Mindanao. But we also bring the good news, that we are not afraid, that we know why this is happening, and that our actions are just.”
Metro Manilans support #Manilakbayan2015
“We are Filipinos, too. We should fight for each other’s rights.”
Manilakbayan reaches NCR
Their only dream is to uplift their lives, have education that their ancestors have been deprived of, live peacefully in their ancestral land and develop it for their families and the next generation.