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Some 15 activists and community organisers have gone missing since Ferdinand Marcos Jr took power, including two who were abducted last week.
Manila, Philippines – Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro were volunteering to help fishing communities affected by development around Manila Bay when, (...)
The Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) was born out of the collective concern of NGOs/POs and other civil society groups against the impending threat of the revitalization of the mining industry in the Philippines.
Organizational History
By the middle of 2004, several NGOs and POs have decided to (...)
Alyansa Tigil Mina is deeply alarmed, but genuinely not startled, that the government has withdrawn from the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). This is a concrete example of the government’s betrayal to its environmental and transparency commitments and its continuing (...)
(1st UPDATE) Worries about the anti-terror law and red-tagging of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Board prompt finance chief Sonny Dominguez to withdraw from the body.
MANILA, Philippines – Ten days before the end of the Duterte presidency, Finance Secretary Carlos (...)
It was timely that the eighth anniversary of Super Typhoon Haiyan was smack in the middle of the COP26 climate negotiations. The tragedy shines a light on the overwhelming impacts of global warming. Climate change created Haiyan, one of the most powerful cyclones to ever make landfall, (...)
What Marcos’s election means for the environmental movement
In February 1986, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in major regions of the Philippines to call for the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos. Widely known as a non-violent revolt, the so-called EDSA People Power Revolution (...)
Robredo, Pangilinan, and Bello emerge as the ‘greenest’ candidates, while Marcos and Atienza come out as the ‘dirtiest’ in the study made by Panatang Luntian Coalition
MANILA, Philippines – Among the presidential bets, only Vice President Leni Robredo and labor leader Ka Leody de Guzman had (...)
In 2008, the Philippines passed the landmark Renewable Energy (RE) Act, which aimed to reduce the country’s carbon emissions and harness its local energy sources. The law was designed to attract private investors through tax incentives to explore the rich natural energy sources in the (...)
The 200-tonne haul dwarfs previous record as poachers turn to ivory substitute amid crackdown on elephant tusk trade
Around 200 tonnes of illegally harvested giant clam shells worth nearly $25m have been seized in the Philippines in one of the biggest known operations of its kind in the (...)
Considered a maniac by many, in reality the North Korean dictator is a leader firmly in control, and with a plan for survival.
Every time North Korea prepares to test a nuclear bomb or launch a missile, Kim Jong-un sits down to pen a handwritten note, flourishing his signature to personally (...)
A day after President Duterte was sworn into office in June 2016, Gloria Capitan was shot pointblank by two unidentified assassins riding a motorcycle at her karaoke bar in Mariveles, Bataan. Capitan was a staunch environmentalist and human rights defender who had led the fight against the (...)
About 150 activists, community leaders, and climate justice advocates from various climate networks and people’s movement marched from the University of Santo Tomas to the Mendiola Peace Arch, and were joined by residents of Barangay 105, the local community affected by Rock Energy (...)
JUSTICE FOR GLORIA CAPITAN, STOP THE KILLING OF CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTIVISTS !
We condemn the killing of Gloria Capitan, Filipino woman leader-activist of KILUSAN, a member organization of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice. Ate Glo, as she is called by people close to her, was shot (...)
Coal-Free Bataan Movement: Appeal for Support for Ate Gloria Capitan
5th July 2016
Dear Friends,
We are Coal-Free Bataan Movement, writing to seek your earnest support for our slain leader, environmentalist and anti-coal activist, shot and killed by two still unidentified (...)
The Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya believes that while it is Glenn Defense Marine Asia that is legally answerable for the dumping of toxic wastes in Subic Bay, the root cause of this particular problem is the Philippine government’s decision to allow US troops to return, contrary to the (...)
The Filipinos have a saying, “gimsa sa sariling mantika” – frying in your own oil. They use this phrase to describe how their natural resources are being used against them, in other words, to their sense of alienation from their environment; much like what Marx was getting at when he used the (...)
MANILA, Philippines – Advocacy group Freedom from Debt Coalition today urged the government to abandon the controversial $1-billion Laiban Dam project, stressing that said proposed undertaking is disadvantageous to more than 12 million consumers of Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (...)
The signing of the JPEPA without full public disclosure of the contents of the agreement will manifest the government’s utter disregard for its citizens!“said Representative Mayong Aguja as AKBAYAN and the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) trooped to the Japanese Embassy to call against the (...)
The Didipio community in the province of Nueva Vizcaya on Luzon, the Philippines’ largest island, is campaigning against a proposed gold and copper mine that could have a devastating impact on the area. Green Left Weekly spoke to JP Alipio from the Cordillera Conservation Trust about the (...)
There is one glaring piece of evidence that convinces me that large scale mining in the Philippines befits mostly the rich and destroys the environment is one great gigantic hole in the ground in Pili, San Marcelino, Zambales. The rumbling trucks and great jaws of the earth eating machines in (...)
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