By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — With the theme “Fight for Our Land, Life and Rights!” the Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocates in six provinces of the region staged the 28th Cordillera Day (CD) through celebrations in their respective areas that also served as mass actions calling for the pullout of…
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On Earth Day, environmentalists urge Aquino to declare a moratorium on destructive mining
On Earth Day, environmentalists urge Aquino to declare nationwide moratorium on large-scale mining> (Photo by Jhun Dantes)
Human rights group criticizes military airstrikes in Caraga
by INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Kahugpungan sa mga Lumadnong Organisasyon-Caraga (Kasalo-Caraga) has sounded the alarm over the ongoing militarization in Zapanta Valley, Bray. Bangayan, Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte and Ferlda, Alegria, Surigao del Norte. The group said countless human rights violations are being perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines…
Mining confab declares: “Philippines is not for sale”
By DONNA RABANG PETA Northern Dispatch www.nordis.net TAGAYTAY CITY – Concluding with a declaration that the “Philippines is not for sale”, delegates to the Third People’s Mining Conference here, shared their resolutions and declarations at a multi-sectoral joint protest action in Mendiola, Manila to commemorate the passage of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 on…
Conference renews push for Peoples’ Mining Bill
By MARYA SALAMAT
The People’s Mining bill embodies the people’s aspirations on how mining could benefit the people.
Sidebar: John Arcilla, actor, environmentalist attends Peoples’ Mining Conference
Green groups slam exemption of mining companies from log ban
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“It’s criminal that the government continues to allow these corporations to take over our forests, deplete our mineral resources and destroy our forest ecosystem.” – Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment
Aquino hit for ‘favoring investors over victims of large-scale mining’
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Aquino shows no regard for the essential issue in the indigenous people’s struggle for the very life of their communities, their children, their way of life, their future,” Luis Jalandoni of the NDFP said.
Sidebar: Group says peace talks should tackle ‘destructive effects’ of mining
Group says peace talks should tackle ‘destructive effects’ of mining
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Resume the peace talks and discuss the damage mining companies wreak on the environment. This was the call of environmental activist group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) in the aftermath of the recent successful operations of the New People’s Army (NPA) against three mining corporations…
Indigenous peoples group slams lifting of moratorium on mining
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – An alliance of indigenous peoples in the Cordillera region said the lifting of the moratorium on the acceptance and grant of new mining applications shows the Aquino administration’s policy on mining. Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) Ramon Paje recently announced the lifting of the moratorium…
Groups renew commitment to save Abra River basin
By ALMA SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – “Sana’y hindi maging kuwento na lamang, at kupas-kupas na mga larawan. Ang mamanahin ng susunod na salinlahi. Mundo nila’y ating buuing muli” (I hope the inheritance of the next generations will not only be tales and faded photos. Let us together build a better world for them).…
Lina Solano, woman leader, defender of mother earth
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Small but feisty, Lina Solano, an Ecuadorian woman spent most of her life defending mother earth and the people affected by the destruction brought about by plunder of Ecuador’s resources. Solano was in Manila early this month for the first general assembly of the International Women’s Alliance…