Peasant Women, Coping on the Fringes

By LYN V. RAMO
With their small parcels of land no longer producing enough for their families, peasant women and men try to make do with odd jobs.
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By LYN V. RAMO
With their small parcels of land no longer producing enough for their families, peasant women and men try to make do with odd jobs.

By DAISY C. GONZALES, MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN and JOSE HERNANI
After eight years of government control, the mineral reservation site in Diwalwal has been eyed by big interest groups, leaving Velasco and more than 40,000 villagers in a constant threat of displacement. Small miners resent government’s policy allowing big private mining firms to take over the site.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Enviromental Groups called on presumptive president Noynoy Aquino to form a commission to investigate the crimes of the Arroyo government against the environment, and to review and scrap its policies and issuances that have a negative impact on the people and the environment.

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The League of Youth for the Environment awarded one bean point for every environmental friendly answer or record of a candidate or group. One mean bean, on the other hand, was awarded for every environmental destructive answer or record.

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Fifteen organizations banded together under the Environment Vote Alliance came up with its agenda that could serve as guide for voters in choosing who among the candidates are genuinely concerned about the environment. The alliance is also challenging candidates to pursue the six-point agenda if they win in the May 2010 elections.

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is the “most anti-environment and anti-people president ever,” an environmental group said.
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