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#ClimateStrike | Lumad youth demand halt to environment plunder
“Wanting to educate ourselves is our way of fighting those who threaten the environment we vowed to protect.”
Oceanagold’s wealth is misery for Kasibu farmers
"We could say that Oceanagold really crippled our livelihood."
Tributes pour for ‘rare ally,’ environment defender Gina Lopez
“Gina remains as the sole proof that meaningful change can be done through unabashed political will at the helm of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. We may never see someone who can unite the entire country in a rallying cry to save the environment the way Gina did ever again.”
The long overdue breakup: Nueva Vizcaya and Oceanagold
“For 25 years, Oceanagold was like a never-ending storm that has lashed at us.”
Main findings of Global Witness 2019 Report
Vast natural resources and fertile soils have long attracted foreign investment to the Philippines, yet widespread corruption and a culture of impunity for unscrupulous companies has seen the profits disappear into the pockets of a tiny elite. - Global Witness
End of killings urged as PH turns deadliest for environmental defenders
“The ecological agriculture that landless farm workers have painstakingly carved out of the vast monoculture plantations of Negros sugar barons have been irrigated with blood and bullets.”
Groups slam Bulacan airport city project’s claim to growth
“Definitely, the airport city project is a part of the government’s Destruct-Destruct-Destruct scheme that primarily caters to business interests and conveniently leaves out genuine development prospects for the people."
Didipio residents stage barricade as Oceanagold continues operation sans license
“The ongoing barricade by the affected citizens in Nueva Vizcaya echoes the battle that we’ve been long fighting. We want them gone and be held liable for their atrocities...”
Scant gov’t response to climate change hitting farmers the hardest
Farmers’ harvests this year are disappointingly smaller than before – not just in amount but in size also of the grains itself.
Nueva Vizcaya folk, environmental advocates urge gov’t to cancel Oceanagold mining license
The mining company is also under investigation by nine United Nation special rapporteurs as Kalikasan PNE and Samahang Pangkarapatan ng Katutubong Magsasaka at Manggagawa Inc. (Sapakkmmi) filed a complaint last December 27, 2018.
‘To protect our species, DENR must declare biodiversity havens, West PH Sea as Special Protected Areas’
“The problem is that President Rodrigo Duterte chooses to act on other policies such as the haphazard conversion of lands and waters to pave the way for ‘Build, Build, Build’ economic projects instead.”
Indigenous peoples demand justice for Lumad chieftain Datu Kaylo
“He died due to the intensified militarization, bombing and strafing of the indigenous communities.”
‘There is enough water’ – Indigenous Peoples
“The Duterte administration is exploiting the vulnerability of Metro Manila residents who are justly demanding accessible and efficient water services.”
‘Conflict of interest’ seen in SMC P1-B Manila Bay rehab partnership
“San Miguel’s P1-billion rehab is highly suspicious because it comes alongside its push for its Aerotropolis and Expressway-Dike reclamation projects across Northern Manila Bay." -- KAlikasan PNE
Defending rivers and Manila Bay against pollution, privatization
“If anyone had rights over the Manila Bay, it is the Filipino people, and if it is to serve any purpose, it should be for the benefit of the general population, and not an elite few.”
Bulacan fisherfolk, women want genuine, inclusive Manila Bay rehabilitation
While the government is riding on the popular call for cleanup of Manila Bay, harnessing free labor of volunteers for fishing out thrash in Manila Bay, it is, on the other hand, disproportionately blaming the poor and seeking their demolition in favor of reclamation plans and other real estate development.
Sampung pinakamatinding kampanya para sa kalikasan (Part 2)
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