KASAKA presses its demand for the military to leave their community, saying the troops are in the area to prepare entry of a foreign palm oil investment in Loreto.
Second farmer leader killed in Agusan del Sur
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Oil palm company rehires ‘unjustly’ axed 293 union workers
Nearly 300 long-time ‘casual’ workers regain old jobs with fresh resolve to campaign for regularization.
Palm oil plantation impoverishes indigenous people in Opol, Misamis Oriental
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Their land and means of livelihood were taken away from them, their culture trampled upon, all in the name of public-private partnerships and foreign corporate interests.
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‘They took our land by force’
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com OPOL, Misamis Oriental – On February 10, 2011, security guards of A. Brown Company, Inc. pointed their guns at Gilbert Paborada, a leader of the local indigenous peoples group Pangalasag. One of the guards threatened Paborada that he would be shot if he and his fellow tribesmen do not leave…