Martial Law persists where environmental defenders resist
The ‘infallibility’ of Duterte’s drug war rhetoric has become a convenient front for politically motivated killings.
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The ‘infallibility’ of Duterte’s drug war rhetoric has become a convenient front for politically motivated killings.
That they were able to set up their own water system after long years of deprivation reflects the Ata Manobo’s aspirations for genuine change in their community.
A climate change activist writes about one of the Lumad tribes besieged by mining and logging companies in Mindanao.
These so-called development projects that serve as the AFP’s loophole in their commander-in-chief’s ceasefire declaration are precisely the reasons why grassroots communities are denied of land, water, food, livelihood, and rights.
As the state of the environment under mining worsens, the people’s movement against large-scale and foreign mining will intensify.
Communities and local environmentalists are fighting the construction of a geothermal plant that threatens Mt. Talinis, the "last frontier" of Negros Oriental.
Environmental activists and advocates say they want for zero vote for Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
The Green Vote campaign scrutinizes the vice presidentiables' records and stands on key and urgent environmental issues that need to be addressed.
The attacks on environmental advocates continue under President Aquino.
The year that was, 2015, was replete with historic moments full of victories and challenges for the environmental movement. It holds lessons and inspirations that can serve as a compass through the trials that must be hurdled in 2016.
Instead of providing solutions, COP21 has negotiated a future that is still on path to heating Earth from 3 to 7 degrees Celsius (°C) within this century.
“The Aquino administration has accumulated a long string of cases of human rights violations against climate refugees and environmental advocates."
How cruel of Pres. Aquino that while he was pitching to COP 21 delegates the tale of his government’s so-called ‘innovations’ in response to Typhoon Pablo, its survivors were being militarized by state forces and forced to evacuate from their lands!
The flourishing of the different forms of national democratic struggle in the concrete realities of Philippine society proves that the program for system change is the most effective foundation of addressing the climate crisis and the rest of the most pressing challenges of our time.
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