25/09/2025
CADM x Kuwago Records x Sleeping Boy Collective
In partnership with Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas - KMP, Philippines-Palestine Friendship Association, and ARPAK - Artista ng Rebolusyong Pangkultura
present
Land Back! Punks for Palestine and the Filipino Peasantry
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October 4 2025
๐ 6:00 PM
๐ Mow's, Matalino St., QC
featuring:
FIGURE OUT phc
GAPAS
GIBRALTAR PHC
Limbs
Luncheon
Miss
Mountain Will Marvel At A World So Changed (debut show)
tidal
โจ PAY WHAT YOU CAN โจ
Proceeds will go to Gazans in Cavite and farmers for peasant month campaign activities.
Flyer by Fulgencio Bermejo III
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Every October, we mark Peasant Month not only to remember the struggles of Filipino farmers but to expose the long shadow cast by Ferdinand Marcos Sr.โs Presidential Decree 27 declared on October 21 1972. Marketed as "land reform," PD 27 entrenched land monopoly, displaced countless rural communities, and dismantled centuries-old agricultural practices in favor of a system that deepened landlessness and rural poverty. Its effects echo until today, where 7-9 out of 10 farmers do not own the land they till.
Half a world away, Palestine commemorates the second anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood, a moment that reasserted the Palestinian peopleโs right to resist occupation and reclaim their land. Today, this commemoration unfolds under Israelโs recent unrelenting escalation: the tightening siege of Gaza, the systematic bombing of civilian areas, the deliberate starvation of entire communities, and the ongoing attempt to erase Palestinian life from its homeland.
These atrocities sharpen the urgency of solidarity, for the histories of Filipinos and Palestinians are bound by a shared condition: dispossession by colonial and imperialist forces, and the struggle to defend land as life. Filipino peasants bear the selfsame harm of US-Israel violence, for the bolstering of arms acquisition from Israel by the Marcos Jr. administration has set its crosshairs on bombing rural areas and displacing farmer communities in the name of EDCA and VFA. With this, solidarity with Palestine must also embrace Filipino farmers, peasant women, agricultural workers, fisherfolk, and all oppressed peoples worldwide under the heel of imperialism.
In this convergence of anniversaries, we remember that the peasant struggle is international: to break free from the chains of landlessness, fascist violence, and imperialist plunder, and to reclaim a future rooted in land, justice, and freedom.
