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Save our Schools Network protest
The Philippines 
July 20, 2019July 21, 2019

The demonisation of indigenous schools continues

Posted By: Louie Encabo 415 Views 0 Comment featured, hermogenes esperon, leonor briones, Lumad, lumad schools, rodrigo duterte, Salugpungan

In July 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte declared during a televised news conference that indigenous Lumad schools were “teaching children to rebel against the government”

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Editor's Notes New Zealand 
April 5, 2018April 22, 2018

Lumad Activists to New Zealand: “Help Us Stop the War Against Lumad Schools”

Posted By: Louie Encabo 322 Views 0 Comment featured, Louie Encabo, Lumad, lumad schools, martial law, save our schools network, the war against indigenous schools

In an event organized by the Auckland-Philippines Solidarity and the Catholic Justice & Peace Commission, I had the chance of listening to Lumad activists

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The Philippines 
February 3, 2018February 12, 2018

The Importance of Student Activism

Posted By: Louie Encabo 806 Views 0 Comment featured, Louie Encabo, Lumad, rodrigo duterte, student activism, university of the philippines

When Dr. Jose Rizal declared that “the youth are the future of the Fatherland”, he envisioned that the future generations of Filipinos would be

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