By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“Our lives as Blaans are not affected no matter who wins the national elections. It is these non-government agencies who have been doing a big chunk of their work to improve our lives. So no one could take that away from us.”
Children from indigenous community of Bgy. Yabi Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya greets with their smile the participants of International Solidarity Mission of Defend Patrimony last July 9-11, 2011. Photo by Clemente Bautista (Bulatlat.com)
Sunday, August 21, 2011By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Two indigenous women, one an Aggay and another a Higaonon, share the yoke of the military abuses inflicted against mountain peoples and indigenous peoples. Their husbands, also from the same indigenous groups, had fallen victims to military and para-military atrocities. Both coming from the peasant masses eking out [...]
Saturday, August 13, 2011By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com A member of Taga-Kaulo tribe was killed inside his home in Sulok Talaod subvillage, Ticulon village, Malita, Davao del Sur, August 4, by suspected state agents. According to human rights group Barugkatungod, a man knocked on the door of Dioquino Scuadro’s house at around 10:15 that night. When Scuadro refused [...]
Friday, August 12, 2011By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: Respect our rights to land and life, indigenous peoples asked on World IPs Day MANILA – Most often, “large-scale resource-extractive ventures like mining and so-called development projects” destroy the environment, the lands that are home to the country’s indigenous communities, and with it, their traditional economic activities. These prompted [...]
Friday, August 12, 2011
By MARYA SALAMAT
August 9 is the international day of the world’s indigenous peoples, but the “occasion is a grim one as human rights violations and ancestral landgrabbing are rampant.” – Piya Macliing Malayao, KAMP.
Sidebar: Indigenous peoples’ groups decry use of IPRA and NCIP for development aggression
Tuesday, August 9, 2011By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The church-based group Rural Missionaries of the Philippines in Northern Mindanao Sub-region (RMP-NMR), which recently decided to reopen literacy and numeracy schools in Agusan del Sur and Bukidnon provinces is appalled by the recent attack of a paramilitary group against a Higaonon community. The June 30 assault, an [...]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
By LYN V. RAMO
“Justice has been too slow and elusive to the Moro victims of Arroyo’s fascist reign. Many of the victims who belong to the poorest sectors of Moro society have been languishing in jail for 10 years now.” – Moro Christian Peoples’ Alliance
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Old and new generations of the Cordillera cultural workers met and shared experiences on their 20th anniversary here, July 31. Under the theme, “Ibandera ti Kultura ti Wayawaya” (Foster the Culture of Freedom), Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordilyera (DKK), an alliance of cultural worker organizations in [...]
Tuesday, August 2, 2011By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – In a statement sent to the media, the spokesperson of the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF) said the miserable situation in the regions of Ilocos and the Cordillera mirrors the dismal state of the country a year after President Benigno Simeon Aquino III took office. According to [...]
Tuesday, August 2, 2011By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – A leader of the Aggay tribe was tortured and arrested by the members of the Charlie company of the 17th Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army (IBPA) and the Regional Mobile Group (RMG) of the Philippine National Police. According to Katribu partylist, Vicente Agbayani, 48, resident [...]
Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
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