Monday, December 3, 2007

Support the Sumilao farmers

From sumilaomarch.multiply.com:

54 farmers from Sumilao, walking for 60 days, from Bukidnon to Manila, on October 10 to December 10, covering 1,700 kilometers, to ask President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to distribute their ancestral lands to them under the agrarian reform program...

They have braved fatigue, heat, storm. They have endured being away from home, being in uncertain places, with uncertain outcomes. Most of all, they have suffered the callousness of people who took away their land and refuse to give them what is rightfully theirs. They have nothing but the solidarity and goodness of people, and the hope that, in the end, truth and social justice will prevail.

Let us support them in this struggle!

Click here to read about theSumilao case: http://sumilaomarch.multiply.com/journal/item/2/Full_Position_Paper_of_SUMILAO_FARMERS

Click here to read the latest updates: http://sumilaomarch.multiply.com/journal

Sign the online petition here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sumilaofarmers/

Click here to make a contribution to the fund-raising initiative of AB Development Students from Ateneo: http://sumilaomarch.multiply.com/journal/item/5/SUPPORT_the_SUMILAO_FARMERS_MARCH

Click here for acknowledgements and list of supporters: http://sumilaomarch.multiply.com/journal/item/74/Acknowledgements

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