Read more about the article Moro and Lumad youth relive indigenous games in Dula Kadayawan
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Moro and Lumad youth relive indigenous games in Dula Kadayawan

Today's young generation may be engrossed with mobile and video games, but in this year's Dula Kadayawan (Kadayawan Games), part of Davao City's Kadayawan festivity, young indigenous and Moro people got to participate and showcase their traditional games to the public, untouched by modernization.

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Read more about the article Lumad teacher dedicates int’l award to fellow teachers
Teacher Rose Hayahay (2nd from left) with her fellow awardees. (Photo courtesy of Rose Hayahay)

Lumad teacher dedicates int’l award to fellow teachers

A volunteer teacher for Lumad schools received the 2023 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk in Dublin, Ireland for her work despite harassments and red-tagging.

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Read more about the article Granted writ reunites Lumad father, daughter held under DSWD-7 custody
Human rights lawyers Attys. Fionah Bojos and Magdalena Daymeg Lepiten with the detained Lumad student and her father. (Photo courtesy of Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu City Chapter).

Granted writ reunites Lumad father, daughter held under DSWD-7 custody

One of the Lumad students held at a facility inside the Social Welfare and Development Office in Region 7 and her father were reunited late afternoon on March 12.

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Who’s afraid of critical students?

But there can be no further wondering why government feels threatened by progressive education. State forces insist that they "rescued" Lumad students—they rescued them from further learning how government assists in the corporate plunder of their ancestral lands, from realizing the potential of their collective strength as our young heroes then realized their collective strength.

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