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What role have women farmers played in fighting for sustainable and just food systems?
In what ways are their struggles connected with our own?
What might being in solidarity with them look like for you personally?

Join us for a learning & sharing space together with friends from .peasant_women, & at
…para mas mabatid ang kalagayan ng mga kababaihang mabubukid, at maliwanagan sa mga paraan na pwede tayong makiisa sa kanilang laban.

SADYA NG PAGTITIPON
• Raise awareness about the value and the continuing struggles of women farmers
• Connect with fellow advocates who want to be in solidarity with women farmers
• Find our own expressions of solidarity with women farmers

WHAT TO EXPECT
• Peasant Women Situationer by Amihan (with Q&A)
• Women Political Prisoners Situationer by Saka (with Q&A)
• Small group discussions to process insights

SECURING YOUR SLOT
This event is free, but slots are limited, so please sign up if you really intend to take your slot. 😊

Sign up via bit.ly/fff-kababaihan.

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Heto ang lineup ng ating learning sessions on May 25! Free po ang lahat ng ito so pls join the conversation!

1️⃣ Celebrating Food Heritage and Building Solidarity (11am)

Sisimulan ni John Sherwin Felix ng Lokalpedia ang talakayan tungkol sa ating Food Heritage at sasamahan siya nina Ka Paeng Mariano ng Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, Ilang Ilang Quijano ng Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific at Ige Ramos ng Ugnayan Center for Food Gastronomy. Sabay-sabay nating pakinggan ang kahalagahan ng pagkilala sa ating mga native na gulay at paano natin ito mapapanatiling buhay para sa atin at sa hinaharap.

2️⃣ Recognizing the Invaluable Role of Women Farmers and Indigenous Peoples in Food Production (12:30pm)

Ang pagkilala sa lakas ng kababaihang katutubo at magsasaka ay pag-tuklas rin sa kanilang mga kalagayan sa mga bukid at lupaing ninuno. Makinig tayo kina Sarah Dekdeken ng Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Zenaida Soriano ng AMIHAN, Nay Virgie at Tay Larry ng MASIPAG upang malaman ang kanilang karanasan sa kani-kanilang mga lugar.

3️⃣ Sagot sa Aray: Katutubong Gulay! (2pm)

Marami nang karamdaman? Paano nga ba ito magagamot? At higit pa, paano ba maiiwasan ang magkasakit? Para sa sagot sa aray, ituturo nila Doc Gulay - Doc Susana Balingit at Nanay Nona ang halaga ng pagkain ng katutubong gulay para sa mas malakas na pag-iisip at pangangatawan.

4️⃣ Filipino Vegan Movement (3:30pm)

Fiesta na walang karne?! Kayang-kaya! Samahan natin ang mga Filipino vegans na sina Peachie Dioquino-Valera, RG Enriquez-Diez at Celine Murillo para matuklasan paano nga ba maging vegan. Maririnig din natin ang kanilang mga kwento at ano ang halaga ng pagiging vegan para sa ating kapaligiran, kalusugan at mas mapayapang bukas.

Kitakits!

Environmental advocacy is necessarily an intersectional advocacy. Everything is connected. We are all connected.

Addressing gender equality is addressing climate change. We reshare here this 2021 post highlighting the connection and co-liberation of people (women) and planet.

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In her TED Talk titled “How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming”, writer, environmentalist and co-editor of Project Drawdown & All We Can Save, Katharine Wilkinson boldly shares ways how equity for women and girsl can help curb global warming.

This , we celebrate intersectional feminism and give light to the plight of women, especially to the marginalized, by highlighting how gender oppression and climate are inextricably linked.

Join us in gathering tonight ❤️

We don't yet have the words to properly describe what we're feeling. And we're still searching for answers to the question, what now? For today, we grieve.

In all this grief and uncertainty, what we do know is that nothing has inspired us more than the movement of volunteerism and inclusive leadership that we've seen in the past few months.

And if there's any place that we draw strength, solace and hope, it was in all the efforts, named and unnamed, that called for and practiced radical love and truth.

Tonight, we seek comfort in community, and invite you to gather with us, to feel our feelings, and find solace in knowing that we are not in this grief alone.

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Leni gets support from environmentalists 💓🌱

We dream of a Philippines built on inclusive development, which works in favor of the majority of citizens, rather than a privileged and power-hoarding few; and sustainable, if not regenerative development, which recognizes our dependencies on our precious planet, and works not only to benefit from it, but to help bring life back to where it was lost.

READ: Environmentalists throw support for VP Leni Robredo and Sen. Kiko Pangilinan, saying the tandem has a clear green agenda on how to address environmental and climate issues in the country. Groups are set to launch a Pink Earth Day on Saturday. | via Maureen Simeon

👋 Our vote this coming May 9 is a vote for the kind of mindful, equitable and livable world for all that we had hoped for since our humble beginnings in 2012, and the kind of world we saw possible with each of the stories of social enterprises, non-profits, and civic projects and movements that we've come across in the past decade of communing with the MUNI Community.

And so, we want to invite you to think about your dream for the Philippines, while also sharing with you a bit of ours. 🇵🇭

➡️➡️➡️ Swipe through to read through some parts of the message we sent out to through our Muni community newsletter earlier this week, or click the link in our bio to read the full post and access links to our sources / references. 🌱

🌊 Words by & illustrations by 🔥
Creatives for Leni

Dear friends,

We are inviting you and your organizations to join , a GLOBAL campaign with the aim to protect 30% of our planet’s land and ocean forms by 2030. For the Philippines, it’s a call on our national government to protect 30% of Philippine land & ocean for biodiversity by 2030.

Why ?

Did you know that 3 megadiverse countries belong to the ASEAN region? (Malaysia and Indonesia, and the Philippines!) While the ASEAN is small, comprising only 3% of the world’s total land area, it is HOME to 18% of known plant & animal species and 75% OF THE WORLD’S reef-building corals. Imagine that! It’s heartbreaking to learn that right now, only Cambodia has signed onto the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People - an intergovernmental group of more than 80 countries championing the cause.

We need both individuals and organizations in ASEAN countries to come together to join the HAC, and our movement begins from our very own home, The Philippines.

We are blessed with being one of the 17 most megadiverse countries in terms of biodiversity, but is 4th in the world in the Climate Risk Index, exacerbated by the continued destruction of our natural spaces. Urgency is key but we must recognize that climate change solutions and biodiversity conservation are two sides of the same coin, so we must push our government to align with and join the HAC.

We have much to protect and we can only do it effectively TOGETHER, with the inclusion, participation, and leadership of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), especially as they inhabit approximately 85% of areas proposed for biodiversity conservation worldwide.

Every voice matters and we need to present a united front in the campaign for in the Philippines and the ASEAN region. Together, we can push for exceptional leadership from our governments to mitigate the effects of and cope with the climate and biodiversity crisis that affects us all. Join the coalition by signing via bit.ly/30x30Partner

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We have always believed in the power of design and creativity to shift culture and create a better world. Design is all around us, in the objects, images, places and experiences we are immersed in everyday. What if all that is designed with a future in mind that is better than today? And when sustainability is no longer enough, how do we move forward and design for and beyond a world that finds itself in crisis?

This Oct. 8-9, we are exploring what that means with at Social Problems are Design Problems 2021, a two-day virtual design conference on regeneration and circular design strategies. We're super excited to see some old friends and meet new ones, to figure out how we can design a better, regenerative world together.

Swipe through to learn more, and visit spdp2021.and-a-half.ph to get your tickets.

We present to you the speakers who will talk about Doughnut Economics and its purpose and function in modern-day society, and the application of doughnut economics in three different sectors. Check out the speaker lineup and program schedule here ⬆️

For ReGenerations is a learning event by and that brings together the team with Filipinos who are working to shape social, economic and environmental systems to fit inside the doughnut.

Join us this July 31 from 2:30-5:30 PM via bit.ly/FRPre-Registration (link in bio).

: If you were nature, what would you say to humans?

In this episode, you'll hear contributions from three women who participated in the Letters from Nature, a project we launched after Earth day with our friends from Agam Agenda, Habilin and Forest Foundation Philippines, to help us pause and reflect on lessons from nature.

Listen to .paredes letter from the Philippine hornbill or Kalaw, as they are locally known, 's letter from soil, and .padilla's Liham Mula sa Kalikasan, and our reflections on the role of mindfulness and presence in connecting to the more than human world.

After listening, we invite you to view the online gallery of contributed works compiled by Habilin via link in our bio. You may also be inspired to write your own letter from nature via the link in our bio or by posting on Instagram with the and tagging , and .

This episode is brought to you by Forest Foundation Philippines. It was produced by , hosted and written by and , edited by , with music by of pulsewavestudio.com, cover photo c/o Habilin, and branding by