There was nothing surprising about the farmers in Kidapawan coming out to the streets to demand for food. To me, it did not even need to be about climate change and drought. This was long in coming, a product of band-aid solutions to real problems that have to do with farmers tilling land not theirs, with land being owned by a wealthy few, with the lack of a real pro-people, pro-farmer program of agriculture.

That the farmers of Kidapawan were violently dispersed would only be surprising to anyone who thinks this government respects the people’s right to peaceably assemble, which would mean being blind to all those instances when rallies have been violently dispersed by matuwid-na-daan.

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