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Group defends Bayan Muna solon vs NCIP-backed tribe leaders
Bayan Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamat (Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat)“The NCIP’s so-called ‘datus’ vaguely label Rep. Cullamat’s participation in the protest as a ‘disrespectful act.’ We ask these datus: how is speaking in a peaceful protest action ‘disrespectful?’ How is the exercise of one’s democratic rights a rational basis for banning an elected representative from her own ancestral community?”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Indigenous peoples group Sandugo – Movement of Moro and Indigenous Peoples for Self-Determination scored the League of Caraga Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives (LCIPMR) for declaring Bayan Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamat “persona non grata” in ancestral domains of the Manobo, Mamanwa, Mandaya, Higaonon and Banwaon indigenou
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You Are Here:Home → 2021 → January → 19 → 6 farmers arrested for harvesting own crops, hundreds others evicted due to land grabbing
6 farmers arrested for harvesting own crops, hundreds others evicted due to land grabbing
Demolition in Norzagaray, Bulacan (Photo courtesy of KMP)
“The situation of Filipino peasants when they marched from Central Luzon to Mendiola in 1987 remains unchanged, and even worse this 2021, especially with the rising cases of peasant massacres and mass killings under the Duterte administration.” – KMP
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Peasant groups condemned the arrest of six farmers in Norzagaray, Bulacan after harvesting their own crops, and the series of eviction of farmers in Bataan, Laguna, Cavite, Bulacan and Iloilo.