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 open (...)
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 International (...)
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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