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She doesn’t fear Duterte’s threat of killing them all; she fears more the threat of seeing our natural resources, and the virgin forest, destroyed.
The dam projects will flood communities, drive away residents and redirect the river’s water away from farming communities.
But hope springs eternal. Environmental defenders everywhere are tirelessly working to protect the last frontiers of nature and restore our despoiled environment.
It looks like gold, shimmers like gold. But scrape its surface off and it's just muck. Like Duterte's promised 'change.'
Cha-cha seeks to constitutionalize the Mining Act's FTAA scheme that allows 100% foreign ownership and large-scale extraction of our mineral resources.
Proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution expand and deepen the control and scope allowed for foreign businesses.
“For us, they might not be the murderers of our children, spouses, or kin, but they represent the thousands of killings that have not reached as far as putting the perpetrators to jail.”
'It is not a crime to defend the environment.'
The Alternatives to Mines and Money campaign delivers a message of protest to the Mines and Money Conference of big mining corporations in London.
“The government is over-achieving in the reconstruction of roads and bridges and totally neglecting the needs of the victims.”
Despite the environmental degradation plantations cause and the harmful toxic chemicals they use, their proclivity for land grabbing and the low wages they pay, the Duterte administration has allocated another 1.6 million hectares for the expansion of plantations.
A reclamation project threatens to bring loss of livelihood and homes to Navotas fisherfolk.
“The people are fed up with the killings and continuing plunder of the country’s resources.”
They may be in need of help from the government, but displacing them from their homes and stripping them off of their livelihoods to give way to foreign investors are the last kind of “help” they could hope for.
'Duterte’s continuing diatribes against mining oligarchs and other environmental plunderers should lead to the investigation of corporate interests that have benefited from militarization.'
Donald Trump's 'Paris Pullout' was not the first time the US backed out of international climate accords.
Mining companies comprise some of the biggest landgrabbers.
Gina Lopez’s rejection as DENR Secretary by the Commission on Appointments shows how destructive industries continue to hold Philippine lawmakers by their necks.
“Trump, as president of the number one GHG emitter, is defending the corporate interests of dirty corporations.”
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