They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we are seeds.
Beverly Geronimo was an active member of Tabing Guangan Farmers Association (TAGUAFA) and member of Parents Teachers Community Association (PTCA) of MISFI Academy.
EDUCATION AS A WEAPON TO RESIST TOWARDS NATIONAL DEMOCRACY
Lumad's Alternative Education, a thread:
#SaveLumadSchools #StandWithBakwitSchool #StopLumadKillings
As we all know, education is the key in order to be successful in life. Even though we see this as part to change our lives, the Lumad see education as a weapon to resist against the oppressive and unjust system towards national democracy.
Jun 8, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
LUMAD BAKWIT SCHOOL STUDENTS LOSE SCHOOL AGAIN IN BUKIDNON
On June 5, 2021, the 72nd Infantry Battalion Philippine Army coerced residents, mostly Lumad, to demolish the Lumad school facilitated by Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Inc in Barangay Sagundanon, Bukidnon.
According to Lumad students here in the Bakwit School, their parents called them a week earlier saying they were being forced by soldiers to participate in the demolition or else they will face trumped up charges and arrest if they fail to cooperate.
Mar 2, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
ALERT: COVID-19 HEALTH PROTOCOLS USED TO JUSTIFY ISOLATION OF DATU BENITO, DATU SEGUNDO, JOMAR, ESME, AND MODDIE TO DIFFERENT EQUALLY CROWDED POLICE STATIONS
The SOS Network has uncovered the PNP's malicious intent in the transfer of the 2 Lumad datu and 3 Lumad students —
because the other police stations are crowded, with poor jail conditions, and with some of the other detainees still not tested for COVID-19, even though PRO-7 reasoned that they were transferred to different police stations due to the PRO-7 being full and a COVID-19 health risk.
Feb 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The SOS Network staged a quick protest in front of PRO-7 denouncing the irregularities of the PNP in handling Teacher Roshelle Porcadilla. Porcadilla was brought to the PRO-7 from the CCPO w/o the knowledge of her relatives or her legal counsel under orders of Debold Sinas.
It also took 24 hrs after her arrest before her legal counsel was able to meet her as the PNP attempted to hide her from her family & colleagues. She was also made to sign a statement in an affidavit even w/o her counsel & faced intimidation by the people holding her in custody.