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Advocacy network supporting human rights/environmental defenders in the struggle for land and self-determination in the Philippines @liyang_network

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💛Its been almost 6 years since Liyang’s founding! We wanted to reintroduce ourselves and our campaign work.

🦋Our ongoing Defend the Defenders, Education is a Right, and Climate Justice campaigns respond to ongoing struggles of communities and organizations in Mindanao, Philippines. As communities continue to fight for self-determination and justice, we continue our mission to amplify the calls to action from these frontline environmental and human rights defenders.

🪁Swipe through to learn more about our campaign framework, efforts on the ground, and a few ways you can support! by @liyang.socal

RSVP for our teach-in! How is feudal land ownership alive and well in the Philippines? How is the US’s push for supply chain dominance in tech displacing Indigenous peoples and farmers in the Philippines?

Join us for a discussion on farmer landlessness, urban housing conditions, and what Pax Silica’s proposed construction of a so-called “Economic Security Zone” really means for communities on the ground.

★ RSVP: tinyurl.com/no-demolitions (link in bio!)
★ Tuesday, November 10th
★ Doors at 6 PM / Program at 6:30 PM
★ 3182 W 8th St (Koreatown LATU) by @liyang.socal

Indigenous Peoples Day 2026 🛑 No to the Kingking Mining Project in Davao de Oro! No to land-theft and plunder! 🛑 #notokingking #defendnativelands #stopstealingresources #rejectpaxsilica by @liyang.socal

The struggle for land is essential to the struggle for self determination of both the peoples of
Palestine and the Philippines. While resistance movements ceaselessly organize in defense of their lands, many similar tactics are used by settler-colonial Israel and the neocolonial Philippine government in their efforts to displace people, occupy communities, and seize territory and resources.

▪️This the final post of a series of reflections from a Liyang member who joined Eyewitness Palestine on a 10 day immersion throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank. From activists, researchers, artists, and everyday Palestinian citizens, they learned firsthand about life under occupation and made connections between the struggle for Palestinian liberation and the struggles of environmental and human rights defenders in the Philippines. by @liyang.socal

This Saturday, June 13th, we’re opening the space to community organizations for people to have the opportunity to connect, learn about ongoing efforts and issues within our communities, and to find ways to get involved with local actions.

As Filipino artists, our work exists to speak on the political situations and history behind the music. It’s our responsibility to be able to reflect on these stories of resistance and joy, and it’s our privilege to share it with the community.

🍹Drinks at the bar all night!
🍲Food from @lasalleavie’s pop up kitchen
📍@hellostrangerla 320 E 2nd St, Los Angeles 90012

📌SCHEDULE
8pm | Doors
8-9pm | DJ @josejurado3rd
9-10pm | DJ @mrs_januarrrry

Community Orgs Speakers:
10-11pm | @workersandplayers
11-END | @quatre45cinq

‼️Don’t get stuck outside ! If you’ve prepurchased tickets, let them know at the door ! Tickets available at the door $20 but we are expected to hit capacity, so arrive early!

Dance with you all soon! by @liyang.socal

As we continue to share reflections on the parallels between the repression in the Philippines and Palestine, it is essential to understand the methods used by their governments to influence and control the masses. Revisionist history and the lies propagated by corporate media are tools of the ruling class used to manipulate people in attempts to justify their violence and manufacture consent.

▪️This is part 2 of the series of reflections from a Liyang member who joined Eyewitness Palestine on a 10 day immersion throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank. From activists, researchers, artists, and everyday Palestinian citizens, they learned firsthand about life under occupation and made connections between the struggle for Palestinian liberation and the struggles of environmental and human rights defenders in the Philippines.

#endtheoccupation #stoptheuswarmachine #freepalestine by @liyang.socal

May 15th is Nakba Day, commemorating the Nakba or “catastrophe,” when over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced through settler terrorism following the 1948 declaration of the state of Israel.

🚨Today, the Palestinian people continue to struggle for their homeland against ongoing military occupation, settler-violence, ethnic-cleansing, and genocide, inspiring people throughout the world to take up calls for a free Palestine.

▪️This month, we’ll be sharing reflections from a Liyang member who joined Eyewitness Palestine on a ten day immersion throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank. From activists, researchers, artists, and everyday Palestinians, they learned firsthand about life under occupation there and made connections between the struggle for Palestinian liberation and the struggles of environmental and human rights defenders in the Philippines.

#freepalestine #endtheoccupation #endimperialistwars

Correction to slide 5: the AFP’s indiscriminate strafing killed 19, including a journalist, human rights advocates, community members and minors from the US and Philippines. by @liyang.socal

Liyang Network condemns the brutal attack against the Toboso 19!

On April 19, 2026, the 79th Infantry Batallion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines forcibly displaced 650+ civilians and killed 19 people through indiscriminate firings and aerial strafing in and around Toboso, Negros Occidental.

We echo the calls of human rights organizations and advocacy groups throughout the Philippines and the world exposing the AFP’s crimes against civilians, demanding an independent investigation of the massacre, and calling for an end to the indiscriminate attacks against human rights and environmental defenders!

We urge our supporters to join in demanding justice for activists and journalists Kai, Lyle, Errol, Maureen, RJ, and Alyssa, community members, Roel, Jemina, and Dexter, and the rest of the Toboso 19!

As the Philippine government uses fascist tools like the NTF-ELCAC to vilify activism and justify their crimes, we must continue to assert the people’s right to organize and struggle to change their conditions!   The murder of civilians is unjustifiable.   Activism is not a crime!

Uphold International Humanitarian Law! by @liyang.socal

Bandcamp Friday is this Friday, February 6th — and we have a limited number of LY003: Weaving CDs available on our Bandcamp. ❀ Don’t miss your chance to grab a copy!

The special two-disc CD set features WARP and WEFT discs in a jewel case, with cover and design by @saizami ❀ The central form on the cover is an abstracted Tinampuso, an Agusan Manobo embroidery motif for community. Each stitch lifted and flickering along waxy blooms of hoya, nestled in the Pantaron Range.

The mixtape is also available as a digital album. Link in bio.

All proceeds of this mixtape go to Liyang Network’s ongoing work to sustain those on the frontlines of land, environmental, and human rights defense in Mindanao, Philippines. Liyang Network’s campaigns expand access to education among disenfranchised youth; advocate for political prisoners and persecuted activists; provide aid in the wake of climate catastrophes; and support the organizing work of those most affected by corporate plunder of water and land in Mindanao. by @liyang.socal

‼️Release Chantal‼️Filipino-American Activist held in custody by the Armed Forces of the Philippines

On Jan 1, the Armed Forces of the Philippines violated international humanitarian law by indiscriminately bombing and strafing a community in Occidental Mindoro. The attack led to the death of three Mangyan (Indigenous) children and integrating student researcher Jerlyn Rose Doydora, as well as the displacement of 188 families.

Chantal Anicoche, a 25 year old Fil-Am activist from Maryland was integrating with indigenous Mangyan communities in the area. As an international advocacy network supporting the calls to action of environmental, Indigenous and human rights defenders in Mindanao, we commend Chantal’s example of going to the Philippines to learn directly from Mangyan communities who face similar issues of extractive mining and destructive renewable energy projects. We decry the violent targeting of the Mindoro people by the AFP for their resistance to these extractive projects.

Liyang Network joins the demands for the immediate release of Chantal Anicoche and her safe return home. Please sign and circulate the petition below organized by the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-US), Malaya Movement USA, and the Philippines Human Rights Act Coalition to help build international pressure.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/surface-chantal-anicoche/.

Release Chantal Anicoche!
Justice for the victims of the Cabacao Massacre!
Stop the bombings! AFP out of Abra de Ilog!
Defend Mindoro! by @liyang.socal

Liyang SoCal is happy to be a community partner for the screening of Marlon Fuentes’ Bontoc Eulogy. A docudrama looking at the experience of exploited indigenous Filipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, focusing on the filmmaker’s grandfather, an Igorot warrior.

Screening is today at the Billy Wilder theater at the Hammer Museum, 7:30pm

10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Hope to see you there! by @liyang.socal

At long last, the latest installment in our mixtape series ‘LY003: Weaving’ is out today on digital and in a special two disc-CD format – WARP and WEFT – grab a copy at our Bandcamp! The mixtape is also available for digital purchase on Nina and streamable on YouTube and SoundCloud.

Featuring over two dozen incredible artists, this mixtape is centered around the theme of Weaving – calling to mind iterations on traditional forms, material exploration, and layers across time, labor and place. Liyang is the Manobo word for a traditional woven basket made from abaca, rattan and bamboo. It is a symbol of the collective struggles we carry together.

All proceeds from this mixtape go to Liyang Network’s ongoing work to sustain those on the frontlines of land, environmental, and human rights defense in Mindanao, Philippines. Liyang Network’s campaigns support the education for children of activists; advocate for political prisoners and persecuted activists; provide aid in the wake of climate catastrophes; and fortify the organizing work of those most affected by corporate plunder of water and land in Mindanao.

This mixtape is dedicated to the memory of Lawu. Through their personal advocacy and creative collaboration with dagger wound as Mirrored Fatality, they used their art and talents to interweave struggles against displacement, militarization, and state violence in the Philippines and abroad. They remain an exemplary force for us in practicing solidarity and using each day to envision and support the creation of a better world.

For those in the Los Angeles area, we’ll have physical CDs available for purchase at our Winter Market this Sunday, December 7th at the Harriet Tubman Center from 11am-5pm.

Artwork by @saizami by @liyang.socal