News in Pictures: Indigenous Peoples and Youth Group Join Earth Hour Commemoration
News in Pictures: Indigenous Peoples and Youth Group Join Earth Hour Commemoration
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Tribal Folk Oppose Laiban Dam Project, Slams ‘Connivance’ Between MWSS, San Miguel
Tribal Folk Oppose Laiban Dam Project, Slams ‘Connivance’ Between MWSS, San Miguel
By LYN V. RAMO
Katribu accused the MWSS and San Miguel of drumbeating a "water crisis" to justify the dam construction. “It misleads the public into thinking that the solution to the water crisis is to build a large dam. In doing so, it places indigenous peoples in a vulnerable position,” the group said.?
Ex-Arroyo Aide Among Execs of Mining Firm Terrorizing Bukidnon Lumads
Ex-Arroyo Aide Among Execs of Mining Firm Terrorizing Bukidnon Lumads
A former chief of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), who is also one of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's most trusted men, is one of the directors of a big mining company that operates in a number of provinces, among them Bukidnon, which is one of the provinces where several indigenous-peoples' communities are suffering under a reign of terror perpetrated by the military and paramilitary groups.
Ondoy Survivors at Ultra Victimized Twice Over
Ondoy Survivors at Ultra Victimized Twice Over
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
As if the trauma of losing their homes and belongings were not enough, evacuees at the PhilSports Arena, formerly known as the Ultra, faced more problems as the government seemingly backtracked on its promise to relocate the displaced families. Worse, the Pasig government allegedly had to use underhanded means to force the refugees to leave.
Coal-Fired Plants Undermine Arroyo’s Approval of Climate-Change Law
Coal-Fired Plants Undermine Arroyo’s Approval of Climate-Change Law
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The Arroyo administration will have to work extra hard to prove that it is sincere in addressing climate change and its impacts. Signing the climate-change bill into law is one thing – approving the operation of coal-fired power plants, which have been identified as one of the dirtiest power-generation methods, makes a mockery of it.
Help Comes to Devastated Folk of Laguna Town but They Fret Over What Comes Next
Help Comes to Devastated Folk of Laguna Town but They Fret Over What Comes Next
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
With the flooding after Ondoy and the blaming of poor peasants and fisherfolks around the Laguna de Bay, many in Pila, Laguna, fear that the demolition of their homes is now just a matter of time.
Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions
Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions
By GILL H. BOEHRINGER
By seeking to convince its readers that the effects of Ondoy were “felt equally by rich and poor” and that it was a “great equalizer,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the most influential newspaper in the Philippines, was attempting to bolster the view that the Filipino class system had nothing to do with the disaster, and that the lives of all Filipinos are shaped by the same forces of nature, even by fate or by God.
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