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Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay: 1930s – November 20, 2023

Liyang Network offers our highest tribute to Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay. On November 20, 2023, Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay passed away while surrounded by loved ones.🧵

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Throughout her life, Bai remained outspoken and unwavering against threats to her people’s survival even though it put her on the radar of the military and gov't. She and her community were forced to evacuate from their ancestral lands as many as 10 times over the past 3 decades.

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She is most well-known for uniting Lumad tribes across Pantaron Mountain Range, to wage ‘pangayaw’ (traditional tribal warfare for self-defense) which successfully drove out the illegal operations of big logging firm Alcantara and Sons from Lumad ancestral lands in 1994.

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WHO IS BAI BIBYAON LIGKAYAN BIGKAY?
Bai was a Matigsalug-Manobo leader born in the Pantaron Mountain Range in Natulinan, Talaingod, Mindanao sometime in the 1930s. She is the first and only woman chieftain of her tribe, the Talaingod Manobo of Mindanao.

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Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay: 1930s – November 20, 2023

Liyang Network offers our highest tribute to Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay. On November 20, 2023, Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay passed away while surrounded by loved ones.🧵

📌Full statement@ https://t.co/dWWVloZXF5

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Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay’s lifetime of strength, sacrifice, building collective unity and of unwavering commitment live on through generations of us in the Philippines and around the world who will continue the struggle!

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As she requested prior, she was buried soon after passing. Although her body is now laid to rest, her courageous spirit and lasting legacy live on through our struggle.

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📍MANILA, Philippines

ILPS, BAYAN, allied orgs, Moro and Indigenous Peoples, health workers, youth, other peace and freedom-loving Filipinos trooped in front of the Israel Embassy to protest the intensifying genocide, bombings, decades-long US-Israel occupation in Palestine. —

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URGENT ALERT

POLICE NABS 4 CAMSUR FARMERS OPPOSED TO HARMFUL DEV’T PROJECT, INCLUDING PROMINENT PEASANT-LEADER

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The Fausto family of Sitio Cangkiling, Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City fell victim to a massacre allegedly carried out by members of the 94th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army.

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JOIN US ON 19 MAY 2023❗️ The FORUM ON THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL SITUATION will discuss global economic and political trends affecting the struggles of working peoples, peasants, and other marginalized sectors. 🤝Co-organised with @ILPS_Official, @eilerinc, and @NNARAYouthUPD

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Liyang Network happily invites you to the virtual launch of SEI report titled "Women environmental human rights defenders in Nepal and the Philippines – unpacking the (mal)development-disaster risk relationship through lived experiences" to cap off Women's Month.