The march lasted 73 days and crossed 1700 kilometres. A group of landless Lumad – indigenous peoples from Higaonon ancestry – set out from Sumilao to the Philippine capital Manila in late 2007 catching national popular attention. The seriousness with which the government of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo eventually treated this protest was revealed in its finally […]

After the People’s Power Revolution which ousted Ferdinand Marcos a group of landless farmers in the north of the Philippine islands formed a cooperative. In spite of the agrarian reforms introduced by the government of the day, they still had to fight to get back on their ancestral land and their leader was murdered as […]