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Farmers and fisherfolk play a vital role in sustaining the nation's food security and economy, yet they are the ones who struggle the most to survive.
They turned our ancestor's burial sites into dumping grounds.
Women often bear much of this burden, even as they take an active role in resisting the forces that threaten their homes and livelihoods.
At the barricade, she has found her place by turning its often-invisible work of care into a collective act of resistance.
For Gilda Salazar Laag, if it were not for the mangroves, more would have been dead from Yolanda.
Amid the warming climate and the looming impacts of large-scale extractive mining projects, women like Peralez, Millomeda, and Decena, from fishing, farming, and religious backgrounds across Mati City have come together to protect one of the most ecologically critical areas in their town.
Individual creation is insufficient when dismantling a rotten system.
“The irony is glaring: a former police chief who once wielded the authority of the State now refuses to submit himself to legal process."
“We gather here together because we don’t have a grave to mourn at."
Despite the somewhat funny concept, they were serious about their goal: Stop the oil exploration in the Tañon Strait by Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX).
Alyansa ng Novo Vizcayano para sa Kalikasan (ANVIK) argued that the court should hold NLMRC accountable rather than target the people’s barricade, which residents put up in response to the company’s activities.
Public money pays for transmission lines, ports, and guarantees, while private firms collect profits for decades. The public absorbs the risk and the debt; the corporations keep the gains.
"We mean protecting 366.7 hectares of public land so it can be transformed into a modern, humanized center for custody, legal aid, and reformation."
"This is reasonable, provided that what the guidance says is followed in practice.”
The absence of reliable irrigation makes it difficult for farmers to continue planting during periods of extreme heat.
Farmers organizations warned that agricultural land conversion and large-scale development projects could displace farming communities, threaten food production and undermine farmers' access to land.
For ILPS Philippines, these agreements are not merely defense arrangements. They further integrate the country into Washington's military operations and its First Island Chain strategy against China.
Nine years later, the family still has no definitive answers about who killed their son, why the gunmen targeted him, and whether authorities thoroughly investigated the shooting.
A significant part of the ruling concerned the Strengthening Assistance for Government Infrastructure and Social Programs (SAGIP).
The criminal sanction for Philippine libel laws is “excessive”
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