Green group demands release of ‘illegally arrested’ environmentalist
'It is not a crime to defend the environment.'
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'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.”
Although the global march is united on climate change issues, Feny Cosico of AGHAM explained that in joining that march, it’s also the responsibility of scientists here in the Philippines to show the context of science and technology in this country.
“Water is part of national patrimony. If only a few control the sources of water, you could not drink if they would not allow it.”
Nature’s beauty and lessons in people’s struggles in one bike trip.
Even international experts recognize the conservation of biodiversity in the NPA-controlled areas.
Forests are the only systems we have that can suck carbon out of the atmosphere within the time frame necessary to save humanity.
Mining-affected communities around the world unite against the big, destructive mines.
“Tell your brother, he totally killed a mountain.” – Environment Secretary Regina Lopez to Commission on Appointments Chairman Rep. Ronnie Zamora
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