Inspired by the urgent and ever-growing international solidarity movement against imperialism, we called on musicians to respond to the theme of seeds. As we witness increasing repression and fascism around the world, our network meditated on the growth, continuation, and multiplicity that sustains us and our movements.
This project began as part of Liyang Network’s Defend the Defenders campaign, a response to this increasing repression of environmental and human rights defenders and advocates in the Philippines in the last four years. The campaign supported targeted activists in Mindanao from diverse groups - farmers, workers, Indigenous Peoples, and women - who are all part of the broad-based movement to free the country from foreign domination, and develop it sustainably for the Filipino people.
Despite the Philippine government’s best efforts, the impacts of what has been built will not be extinguished, and defenders will continue to wage the struggle for land and life. Tied to the land, we find that seeds can represent the planting and re-planting done both literally and figuratively to win people’s struggles. Long live land defenders! Mabuhay!
