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News in Pictures: Green Lanterns for Environmental Justice

News in Pictures: Green Lanterns for Environmental Justice


Environmental activists, indigenous peoples' leaders and human-rights advocates today lighted green lanterns to pay tribute to the 39 environmental defenders and martyrs who were victims of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. The activity, held in Bulwagang Nicanor Delos Santos in Quezon City, coincided with the commemoration of the 2nd year since the brutal killing of anti-mining and environmental activist Eliezer “Boy” Billanes in Koronadal City on March 9, 2009. (Photos courtesy of Kalikasan-PNE / bulatlat.com)

| Mar 10, 2011

Justice for Leonard Co Movement Holds ‘Lugawan,’ Forum to Raise Campaign Fund

Justice for Leonard Co Movement Holds ‘Lugawan,’ Forum to Raise Campaign Fund

The family and relatives of slain botanist Professor Leonard Co and their supporters, led by groups Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (Agham) and the Justice for Leonard Co Movement, successfully conducted a forum-fundraising activity dubbed “Lugawan for the Justice for Leonard Co campaign” on Friday in Balay Kalinaw, University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman. All the funds generated by the ‘lugawan,’ will be used to pursue the legal case the family filed. By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO / bulatlat.com

| Feb 26, 2011

Witnesses, Local Police Contradict DOJ-NBI Report, Company Blames Military for Co’s Death

Witnesses, Local Police Contradict DOJ-NBI Report, Company Blames Military for Co’s Death

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
John Quiniones Sosito, former police senior superintendent and acting director of the Leyte Provincial Police Office, said there were no other adversarial forces during the supposed crossfire incident that killed Leonard Co, Sofronio Cortez, and Julius Borromeo.

| Feb 25, 2011

Family of Slain Botanist Disappointed in Aquino For His Silence on Killing

Family of Slain Botanist Disappointed in Aquino For His Silence on Killing

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"He has issued statements on matters like floods, the rising number of carnapping cases, environmental concerns, but he has yet to make a single comment on Leonard’s murder. Leonard has done much for the Philippines, but he was killed by soldiers. Why is President Aquino not saying anything?” said Bobby Austria, Co’s brother in-law.

| Feb 23, 2011

News in Pictures: Environmental Group Decontaminates Bt Eggplant Field Trial Site

News in Pictures: Environmental Group Decontaminates Bt Eggplant Field Trial Site


On February 17, a Greenpeace decontamination unit removed genetically-engineered Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) eggplants from a field trial site in Paciano village in Bay, Laguna, and sealed the experimental food crop in hazmat (hazardous materials) containers to prevent further contamination to neighboring fields and the environment. (Photo by Gregorio B. Dantes Jr. / bulatlat.com)

| Feb 22, 2011

Residents, Small-Scale Miners Act to Stop Encroachment of Large Mining Firms

Residents, Small-Scale Miners Act to Stop Encroachment of Large Mining Firms

By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Residents of Pantukan, a coastal town in Compostela Valley province, are locked in battle against two large-scale mining companies attempting to wrest full control of the area’s mineral resources. They also bewail the unfair advantage the government gives to these companies at the expense of small-scale miners.

| Feb 6, 2011

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