Dispatches: Killings of Philippine Tribal Members Spark Public Furor
It’s been a bloodbath for the Lumad, the collective name for the indigenous peoples of the southern Philippines island of Mindanao.
It’s been a bloodbath for the Lumad, the collective name for the indigenous peoples of the southern Philippines island of Mindanao.
Yes, the AFP under the present commander-in-chief Pres. Noynoy Aquino is capable of doing absolutely anything. Absolutely anything!
It has been nothing if not a horrific past two weeks for lumad communities across eastern Mindanao.
A good friend and teacher once wrote: “Agriculture is culture. Culture is people”.
In the 60s, the first wave of migrants from the Philippines to the United States landed in Hawaii and neighboring states to settle as migrant workers with no specific professional and gendered identities, except that some were technically skilled and some were college degree holders or intellectually and academically advantaged in their own right.