Saturday, April 02, 2011
US, Sulu gov’t partnership committed towards progress and development
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| TAN MEETS THOMAS Sulu Governor Abdusakur M. Tan and United States Ambassador Harry K. Thomas Jr., during Thomas' arrival at the Sulu Capitol site Tuesday. |
“Livelihood projects for our people, infrastructure support and power are key areas that need much assistance. Substantial improvement in these areas would definitely create opportunities for the province to move forward,” Tan said.
The Governor emphasized that the provincial government is doing its best to address these areas.
Lt. Gen. Ferrer informed Thomas that Sulu will be the site where Regional Command B of the ARMM Police will be situated.
Gov. Tan for his part said that Sulu has a good police organization and further training would greatly enhance their capacity in the campaign against criminal elements and their activities.
Concerning future programs and projects, Gov. Tan requested Ambassador Thomas and USAID Director Gloria Steele to utilize the Sulu Area Coordination Center (SACC) so that proper monitoring and coordination of projects can be implemented. Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) is a member of the Sulu Area Coordination Center (SACC).
Thomas expressed his appreciation to Gov. Tan and to the people of Sulu for the Warm welcome he received. He reiterated the U.S. Government’s commitment to assists the People of Sulu to achieve better lives.
The US Ambassador’s Visit came a few weeks after a donor’s forum was sponsored by the USAID in Sulu to assists projects identified by multi-stakeholders and communities.
U.S. Government Assistance thru USAID, JSOTFP implemented support programs in areas of Health, Security, Infrastructure, Education and Capacity Building programs to enhance livelihood in the province. (Sulu-PIO)
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
NDFP-Mindanao feel sorry for with the broad masses of Japan and our Filipino compatriots in the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the entire revolutionary forces in Mindanao sympathize with the broad masses of Japan as well as with Filipino compatriots there who are suffering because of the devastation, including the direct threat of nuclear exposure, brought on by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
We are confident that the Japanese masses could muster heroic strength to rebuild and surge forward. As in the past, if the Japanese masses were able to rise from the destruction wreaked by two US imperialistatomic bombs, inhumanly dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II, so shall they in the face of this recent unspeakable tragedy. We salute the heroism of the Japanese masses, particularly the indomitable courage shown by the Nameless 50 in Fukushima!
The Filipino and the entire peoples of the world must resolutely unite to aid the Japanese masses in their hour of great need as well as in the process of rebuilding, bearing in mind that natural and man-made calamities of such proportions that recently hit Japan could happen to any country across the globe.
There are serious lessons to be learned from a tragedy of this scale: One, imperialist destructive competition led them to use destructive technology such as nuclear energy to ensure the raking-in of profit from their own home economies as well as super-profit the world over. In the arena of inter-imperialist mega-competition for markets and super-profit, environmental consideration has become insignificant.
Two, massive environmental destruction worldwide, mostly caused by imperialist mining, logging and agribusiness plantations, result to thousands upon thousands of deaths around the world. The rapid depletion of mineral, forest and other natural resources, including the non-renewable crude oil, makes the world more vulnerable to cataclysmic catastrophes.
Presently, the ruling big bourgeoisie in Japan, the US, Germany, France and other imperialist–ruled countries dictates the rapidity of “development,” exacerbating the exploitation and oppression of millions of workers and peasants, and the wanton destruction of the natural environment. In Japan, the basic working masses bear the brunt of the folly of the monopoly capitalists’ destructive industries and their profiteering concept of “development,” which result in catastrophic disasters.
The Chernobyl, Long Island and the recent Fukushima nuclear catastrophes clearly expose the bankruptcy of the twisted logic of the imperialist and their local cohorts in the Aquino government who are just waiting for an opportune time to open and operate the country’s own multi-billion dollar ticking poison bomb: theBataan Nuclear Power Plant.
In Mindanao, the proliferation of open pit mining, logging and large agri-business companies, including large-scale fishing, have negatively impacted the environment. Natural diversity is destroyed, in particular, with the precedence of cash crops over food crops, wrecking ecological balance and putting us at risk during catastrophes.
If the reactionary government continues to make compromises with regard to the already depleted state of our environment, we, the Filipino people today and future generations, shall be left defenceless, with no natural resources of our own to cater to our needs, interests, and certainly no natural environment to shield us from disasters.
The NDFP-Mindanao firmly stands by the program of the National Democratic Revolution on the preservation and protection of the natural environment by working towards a nationalist industrialization that corresponds to the level and genuine development of our agriculture.
We, therefore, call on the Filipino people to demand from the Aquino government to: 1) stop large-scale mining, logging, agri-business and other similar businesses that cause irreparable damage to the natural environment; 2) cancel and completely shut-down the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) and place emphasis on tapping other environmentally-safe power sources; and 3) seriously work towards nationalist industrialization along with genuine agrarian reform.
(Sgd.) Ka Oris
Spokesperson
NDFP-Mindanao
Friday, October 15, 2010
Searsoliners batch 46
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| Searsoliners Batch 46 at Marawi City. (From left to right) Marady Chum, Mary Khine, Emz, Karen, Francis Bacomo, Ms. Ha (wearing yellow), Ms. Shiela de Lima, Philip Htingbu Pan Aung and Fr. Peter Truong Van Phuc. |
Monday, June 14, 2010
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Justice to mining disaster victims in the Philippines
The disaster resulted in the release of over 1.6 million cubic meters of tailings along 27 km of the river and the coastal areas. The impact on the river and the people who depend on it for their livelihoods was massive. The rush of tailings displaced river water which inundated low-lying areas, destroying crops and vegetable gardens and clogging irrigation channels to rice fields. The release left the
Saturday, December 19, 2009
12,000 signatures call to cancel IFMA permits in Gingoog City
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan (LRC-CdO) team Leader Carl Cesar C. Rebuta said the petitioners even called for the immediate cancellation of their IFMA.
“We have already signed a petition and collected at least 12,000 signatures to oppose such agreement,” said Rebuta adding that the agreement was undeniably harmful to the environment and especially to the lives and livelihood of thousand others in the whole region.
Rebuta said the complaint with 12,000 signatures was filed at
According to Rebuta the undefeatable calamities and political tragedies which have battered the country has left the country in a dismal state.
In his statements sent to this paper, Rebuta said that in the aftermath of the events of the floods Ondoy and Pepeng alone, thousands of Filipinos are left without homes and grieving over loved ones, whether they were actually lost or found.
“In the local scenario, the people of Misamis Oriental are no stranger to these calamities,” said Rebuta.
This year alone, he said massive destruction has been brought to the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Gingoog due to the flashfloods and heavy rains last January and November incidents.
But these destructive incidents will not cease as more and more environmental laws and prohibitions are being blatantly disregarded by various mining and logging corporations, giving way to enormous environmental devastation, according to Rebuta.
The petitioners who signed the complaint were members of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the Earth (LRC-KsK/FoE), Ecology care(Ecop-care), non-government organizations in Misamis Oriental and along with the various communities surrounding the areas of Mt. Balatucan and Mt. Minalwang, all of Misamis Oriental.
“Such agreement (IFMA) will prove to be detrimental not only to the environment but also to our lives, livelihood, homes, families and the entire communities,” said Rebuta.
IFMA agreement will allow the Southwood Timber Corporation (STC) to cut trees in the areas which are deemed in the process of becoming a watershed, which is crucial to the communities’ everyday life.
Under IFMA, he also said that it will enable them to harvest those trees which serve as protection against upcoming calamities and floods which will affect the regions in the future.
Rebuta said that as such agreement of 11,476 hectares which will last for 25 years.
“One can only imagine what kind of calamities and floods our region will have to experience based on the flashfloods we have experienced this year alone,” said Rebuta.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
‘Haba-haball’ driver’s murder still puzzles cops
CAGAYAN Journal (Ben Balce / Dec. 18) - THE Bulua police yesterday found a habal-habal driver brutally killed at Apovel Subdivision.
The victim was identified as Jectofer Pio, 25, of St. Ignatius, Barangay Macasandig. He hailed from Magcalugay,
‘‘He bathed in his own blood,’’ said SPO1 Dominador Datahan, chief investigator of the Bulua police.
Datahan said the victim was found near the gate of one of the houses in Apovel at around
“Murag manok nga gipatay ang biktima,” said Datahan, adding that the victim’s head was nearly severed.
There was blood on the road up to the gate.
Bulua police head Chief Insp. Dexter Paje said investigators were still conducting an investigation in hopes of identifying a suspect.
Paje said he doubted if the robbery was a motive. He said police found the victim’s personal belongings intact.
“No robbery here. The wallet, including his income for that day and his cellular phone, (are) still intact,” said Paje.
He said the victim was dead when members of the Scene of the Crime Operatives (Soco) came.
Paje said police investigators are now focused on the last person who contacted the victim.
The victim’s wife Rowena Pio, 24, told this paper that she has no suspect in mind.
Rowena said her husband left the house after receiving a text message from a customer at around
The text message reads: ‘‘Pre, pahatod ko nimu sa Camaman-an. Hulat ko diri sa imo. OK? Salamat. Naa japun sa gisunduan nimu.’’
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Due to imminent eruption of Mt. Mayon Volcano: Government should look disaster mitigation, evacuation says Guingona
CAGAYAN Journal (Ben Balce / Dec 17) - Bukidnon Representative Teofisto “TG” Guingona III said authorities and experts should look to the disaster mitigation and evacuation being presently undertaken in Albay Province due to the imminent eruption of the Mayon Volcano to learn valuable lessons in Disaster Risk and Reduction Management.
The Solon has managed to have the DRRM Bill approved in the Congress on December 8 this year. The bill only needs to be approved in the Bicameral Committee which the Solon said should not face any rough sailing since the Upper House has already approved it own version of the bill.
“The recent events brought about by the rumblings of the Mayon Volcano should provide lessons that have to be learned if we are to make the implementation of the DRRM Bill work effectively,” Guingona said.
Disaster mitigation officials here have started evacuating close to 10,000 families residing within a radius of six to eight kilometers from the crater of Mayon Volcano after it spewed lava which flowed half a kilometer down-slope upon the order of the governor of Albay.
Government vehicles, mostly trucks from the Philippine Army, have already been dispatched, and some of them had already started loading evacuees from designated pickup points located in village centers.
Cong. Guingona III said the
“With the DRRM in place, the national and local governments’ response to disaster should focus on mitigation rather than responding after the calamity has struck. We all know the cost to life and property if the country is once again caught flat-footed once disasters strike anew,” Guingona said.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Green advocates stirred by women resiliency vs. prime mining company
“This is a peaceful community, tension amongst us arises after the mining community encroached our village- narrated by Neneng Gamus, a mother of two children, a barangay councilor, and one of the mothers’ in the fore front of defending their land and life in Anislagan, Placer, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.”
CAGAYAN Journal (PR / Nov 28) - Alternative Law Groups (ALG), the biggest law groups in the Philippines composed of 21 laws groups with their assisted community representatives gathered for a two-day forum in sharing legal strategies of communities in defending the environment threatened by development aggressions.
“This is venue of lawyers and law groups in handling environment (EnDefense) cases of marginalized sectors to share interventions, legal actions, and learnings in the course of handling cases” narrated by ALG national coordinator lawyer Marlon Manuel.
ALG visited Barangay Anislagan, one of the communities supported by the EnDefense project. Anislagan is an agricultural village on the southern Philippine
In March 2007, Kalayaan Copper Gold Resources (KCGR), a joint venture between
In this community, women have an important role to till, plant, and harvest the fields where corn, rice, a diversity of vegetables, coconuts, and other cash crops are grown.
Significantly, Anislagan is also the site of large spring water aquifers from which water is drawn and distributed to surrounding communities.
Knowing that the development of a gold mine would mean an end to their agricultural livelihoods, and to their locally accessible clean water sources, residents have been determined to keep mining companies off of the green fields they consider gold according to local councilor Neneng Gamos.
As early as 2002, residents of Anislagan quickly mobilized themselves into a multi-sectoral environmental watchdog organization that became known as the Anislagan Bantay Kalikasan Task Force (ABAKATAF).
This diverse collective includes village councilors, farmers, women, youth, and parishioners from different churches, who have continued to mobilize together over the years.
Their vision of Anislagan is for it to remain a productive agricultural zone that is free of mining, with clean water for drinking and irrigation--a resource of the ‘commons’ to be shared and protected. In particular, women activists in Anislagan, have tirelessly committed to protect the life, land and resources of all in their community.
Men and women have now returned to their land to prepare for the next planting season but vowing to remain vigilant and waiting for the next Church bell to toll for the whole community to block the next drilling machine coming to explore their village.
Carl Cesar Rebuta
Team Leader
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center- Cagayan de Oro Regional Office
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