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PRESS RELEASE April 10, 2010 Davao City --- National indigenous sectoral group KATRIBU Partylist challenged local candidates to address the logging problem in Davao City as it received reports from Manobo leaders in Brgy. Malabog, Paquibato District regarding the...
By ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Three local candidates in Ilocos Norte province received letters from anonymous sender last March 24 demonizing Makabayan party senatorial candidates Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza and progressive party list groups. The letter...
PRESS RELEASE March 15, 2010 Davao City ---- On the 73rd Araw ng Dabaw, KATRIBU, a lumad sectoral party, highlighted the significance of Davao River to the indigenous peoples or lumads in the founding of the city through a Davao River clean up activity. The clean...
By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com CORDILLERA Region – The Katribu party list has been gaining the support of indigenous peoples from the Cordillera region. In the first two weeks of the month, the party list group held its conventions in Abra and Mountain...
Ahead of Women's Day on March 8, Katribu partylist cited women health workers, particularly the 26 currently detained in Camp Capinpin, “for bringing health service to the poor and far-flung indigenous communities neglected by the government, for performing their medical duty to country and people at the risk of being arrested and tagged as rebels.”
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.?
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com QUEZON CITY—For someone who knows full well the track record of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, voting or campaigning for whoever runs against her is as easy as reciting the ABC. “Who else would I vote as representative of Pampanga's...
By LYN RAMO Bulatlat.com TANAY, Rizal -- As expected on a Monday, little Dumagat schoolchildren hurriedly prepared and left their homes to grab a better seat in school. They did not head for the Nayon Elementary School, though, because “the teacher is not yet...
By CONYAP G. Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com Militarization of indigenous peoples’ territories is not isolated to Mountain Province or the Cordillera region, but is happening nationwide. Beverly Longid, Katribu partylist president and first nominee, said...
By WENDY ATUBAN Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -- A newly forged alliance of indigenous students of the University of the Philippines system threw its support to the Katribu party list. Katribu aims to represent the issues and concerns of the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
While the right of indigenous peoples to their ancestral land is recognized by international agreements and conventions, indigenous peoples in the Philippines are relentlessly being driven away by mining, tourism and other so-called development projects. In Zambales alone, more than 70 mining firms are now operating, with some preventing the Aetas from entering what used to be their land.
MANILA – On Aug. 9 last year, 25 indigenous peoples groups from all over the country gathered together to form the Katribu party list, in time for the commemoration of the International Day of the World's Indigenous People. Nelson Mallari, chairman of Central Luzon...
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