Support the Sumilao Farmers!
Benefit gig on October 30, 9PM @ Routee 196 Katipunan
Extension (across Wham burger) featuring Chickoy Pura
and Bayang Barrios, and rising indie bands, Purple
Chickens, Ang Bandang Shirley, and Soft Pillow Kisses.
Tickets at only PhP150.00 inclusive of one drink.
please do go as a show of support for the Sumilao
Farmers. Please tell your friends as well. Thanks and
hope to see you there!!! :)

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October 30, 2007, Tuesday, will be Day 21 of the
60-day ‘March for Land’ to Manila of 54 Sumilao
farmers from Bukidnon. They began the grueling journey
on foot from Mindanao last October 10, 2007—10 years
since 15 of them came here for a hunger strike to
regain their 144-hectare ancestral land.

Meanwhile, Manila’s respected musicians will show the
farmers early support with a benefit gig on October
30, 9 PM at Route 196 (formerly Inihaw Republic) on
196 Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City. The event will
feature performances by long-time advocates Chickoy
Pura and Bayang Barrios, and rising indie bands,
Purple Chickens, Ang Bandang Shirley, and Soft Pillow
Kisses. Produced by Last Song Syndrome and SALIGAN
(Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal), an
alternative legal resource center to local
communities, women, the urban poor, peasant and labor
sectors, proceeds will go to the ongoing fundraising
initiative of Task Force Sumilao, an advocacy network
of sectoral, civil society, church and student
organizations.

The Sumilao farmers are expected to arrive in Manila
by December 10 with the same, unfulfilled demand. With
their recurrent plea for land ownership to President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is an appeal for the passage
of HB 1257, a bill to extend and reform the current
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
Throughout the trek they have been joined by other
farmers, and welcomed by locals and motorists in the
provinces.

Aside from your financial contribution by attending
March Music, you can sign the farmers’ petition at the
gig and join the mass gathering on December 10 at
Malacañang in Manila and the Department Reform office
on Elliptical Road, Quezon City. For more information,
visit www.sumilaomarch. multiply. com or
www.saligan. org. Contact SALIGAN, G/F Hoffner
Building, Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila
University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines
by calling (632) 426-6001 loc. 4858-4860, or e-mailing
saligan@saligan. org.

For further information or to arrange interviews,
please contact:
Carol H. Pajaron, Program Officer
SALIGAN (Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal)
Manila
G/F Hoffner Building, Social Development Complex
Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon
City, Philippines
Tel. (632) 426-6001 loc. 4858-4860
Telefax: (632) 426-6124
E-mail: carolpajaron@yahoo.com
http://www.saligan.org

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