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KM9
7 MarIn an event entitled KM9, progressive poetry group Kilometer 64 will celebrate its nine years this March 13, Wednesday with a poetry reading and book launch at Conspiracy Garden Café in Visayas Avenue, Quezon City.
Created by social activist, painter and poet Rustum Gil Casia as an online group in Manila and then later on co-moderated with poet and journalist, Alexander Martin Remollino, the group is known for its hard-hitting and red-blooded poetry published through several chapbooks that tackle pressing social issues in the Philippines.
On its anniversary celebration, the group will launch its second book, Mga Panahon sa Hacienda Luisita, a support to the struggles of more than 4,000 farmworkers in the disputed hacienda owned by the family of the current president, Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III.
Kilometer 64’s membership had peaked at 900 and has followings local and overseas. Among its known members are sculptor and poet, Raul “Tata Raul” Funilas, Kristoffer Berse, Palanca-awardee Mark Angeles, and former political detainee, Axel Pinpin. Today, it boasts of chapters in Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon
Open house starts at exactly 6 pm. Event is of free admission.
Tula ni Apong Let Lapuz
16 Nob
Walang titulo
-Apong Let Lapuz
Queni king picketline
Libutad ning dalan
Makalunos kaming dadalanan
Bengi at aldo,
Quen kaming kasakitan
Pelagwan da kami pang–
Taksil at tulisan!
Ali kami hukbo,
Ali kami bandidio
Tao kaming mantun katwiran
E bali ing mate
mibwal king picketline
Bami yasang akit
gintong katiwawaran
E bali ing mate,
mibwal king picketline
Ba mi ya’sang akit
gintong kalayaan
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-Apong Let Lapuz
Dito sa picketline
Sa gitna ng daan
Nakakaawa kaming dinaraanan
Sa gabi at umaga,
Ay nasa kahirapan
Tinawag pa kaming
Taksil at tulisan!
Hindi kami hukbo
Hindi kami bandido
Tao kaming naghahanap ng katwiran
Hindi bale na ang mamatay
Mamatay sa picketline
Kung aming makikita gintong katwiran
Hindi bale na ang mamatay
Mamatay sa picketline
Kung aming makikita
Gintong kalayaan
translation: Adel Abaya



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