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Phil. IP's hold Sandugo confab
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Posted: August 18, 2004
 
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Press Release
August 13, 2004

Indigenous peoples, church, academe and IP advocates hold Sandugo confab to cap the end of UN Decade of Indigenous Peoples

Today, at Quezon City Memorial Circle, more than two hundred indigenous peoples from the different regions, church people, environmentalists, members of the academe, students and other professionals will hold a two-day Sandugo Solidarity Conference to cap the end of the UN Decade of Indigenous Peoples.


The Conference will also be attended by local government officials from the Committee on Indigenous Peoples of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of the Province of Capiz.

The two-day Solidarity Conference with the theme “Strengthen and Consolidate Our Ranks, Celebrate Our Victories and Survival Toward Continuing Resistance Against National Oppression” is part of the Sandugo Solidarity Festival 2004 launched by the Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP) in cooperation with the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP). The event will “Celebrate the Struggle for Ancestral Land Rights & Self-Determination” of the Indigenous Peoples.

Earlier, church people and other IP advocates embarked on the Sandugo Solidarity Missions (SSMs) to various indigenous peoples’ communities in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. “The SSMs went to indigenous peoples’ communities that have incessantly fought tough battles against large-scale commercial projects and consequent human rights abuses by armed government troops. They will see first hand the impact of big dam projects, large-scale mining operations and various schemes in which the government and foreign and local big business have relentlessly grabbed ancestral lands, and how indigenous peoples are organizing themselves,” Mr. Nonoy Gobrin, National Coordinator of Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP) and over-all coordinator of Sandugo Solidarity Mission said.

“Sandugo, which means ‘bloodpact’, will bring together indigenous peoples from across the Philippines to discuss common issues and experiences in struggle, and to unite other concerned sectors around the struggle for ancestral domain and self-determination,” Mr. Nonoy Gobrin, KAMP Coordinator said.

Reference: Mr. Nonoy Gobrin
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