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Kwentuhang Klima

November 28, 2020December 9, 2020 ccnci_web 0 Comments Climate Justice, Disaster Response, Relief

Inaanyayahan namin kayo sa isang birtwal na pagtitipon ‘Kwentuhang Klima: Hustisya at Pananagutan mula Bagyong Quinta hanggang Ulysses’ sa Nobyembre

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Pamalakaya protest for Fishing Rights, Climate Justice and Equity on World Fisheries Day 2020

November 21, 2020December 9, 2020 ccnci_web 0 Comments Climate Justice, Fishing Rights, World Fisheries Day 2020

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World Fisheries Day 2020

November 14, 2020December 9, 2020 ccnci_web 0 Comments Climate Justice, Fishing Rights, World Fisheries Day 2020

Marking November 21 – World Fisheries Day 2020 Uphold Fishing Rights, Climate Justice and Equity Now! Oppose Manila Bay Reclamation!

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Immediate relief to fire incident victims in Bacoor City, Cavite

November 8, 2020December 9, 2020 ccnci_web 0 Comments Disaster Response, Fishing Rights, Relief

From Pamalakaya: Former Anakpawis Party-list Rep. Ka Ayik Casilao turns over the donations of sacks of rice, used clothes, beddings,

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Salu-salo: National People’s Food Systems Summit 2021

November 4, 2020December 9, 2020 ccnci_web 0 Comments Agro-ecology

Handa ka na ba? Dahil tuloy na tuloy na ang Salu-salo Agroecology Festival! Kita-kita tayo sa darating na NOVEMBER 7

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Advocating for People-Centered Sustainability Amid and Beyond Covid19

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 ccnci_web 0 Comments Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Consumption and Production

Please join us tomorrow: Webinar on People Led Sustainable Consumption and Production, Oct 9, 2-3:30pm. To register to the webinar:

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HANDS ON CLIMATE ACTION! CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW!

September 25, 2020October 7, 2020 ccnci_web 0 Comments Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate Strike 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE continues to threaten human lives especially in developing countries like ours where people are poor and neglected. We

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Petition-signing against destructive reclamation projects in Manila Bay, February 17, 2020, UP Diliman campus, Quezon City

February 17, 2020October 7, 2020 ccnci_web 1 Comment Climate Change, Fisherfolk, Manila Bay Reclamation

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Agroecology Fair 2020, February 17, 2020, Baclaran Church

February 16, 2020October 7, 2020 ccnci_web 1 Comment Agroecology, Climate Change

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CCNCI joining Lantern Parade in UP Diliman campus in Quezon City, calling for Climate Justice, December 16, 2019

December 16, 2019October 8, 2020 ccnci_web 0 Comments Climate Change, Climate Justice, Environmental Protection, Indigenous People

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Timeline PhotosCoastal defenders, disaster survivors in Southern Tagalog killed in Police SEMPO

Environmental activist group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) today said at least five environmental defenders were killed in a Synchronized Enhanced Management of Police Operations (SEMPO) style of crackdown across the Southern Tagalog region today.

“We vehemently condemn this mass murder and arrest of activists working against reclamation, land grabs, and climate injustices in the Southern Tagalog region. We call on the Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations to investigate this latest in a series of monthly crackdowns on average since December last year,” said Leon Dulce, national coordinator of Kalikasan PNE.

Initially reported killed were the following:

1. Chai Lemita-Evangelista and Ariel Evangelista, a fisherfolk couple who were both members of Ugnayan ng Mamamayan Laban sa Pagwawasak ng Kalikasan at Kalupaan (UMALPAS KA) in the town of Nasugbu in Batangas;

2. Emmanuel Asuncion, an anti-reclamation campaigner who was the coordinator of the provincial chapter of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan in Cavite (BAYAN Cavite); and,

3. Mark Lee Bacasno and Michael Dasigao, typhoon Ulysses survivors who were members of urban poor group SIKKAD-K3, based in Rodriguez town, Rizal province

Latest reports also indicate at least three (3) human rights and labor activists were arrested in these simultaneous raids of offices and homes. An attempted raid against Lino Baez was foiled as he was not present then.

The Evangelistas were part of the long-standing protest movement opposing the coastal land-grabbing by the Henry Sy-owned Hamilo Coast Project within the 8,650-hectare Hacienda Looc in Nasugbu.

Asuncion, meanwhile, was an active campaigner against various proposed land reclamation projects in Cavite that covered an estimated 4,844 hectares of foreshore areas.

Bacasno and Dasigao were active in organizing emergency relief and rehabilitation for their communities in the relocation site of Kasiglahan Village during the aftermath of Typhoon Ulysses. They were part of local protest movements calling for the closure of some 3,416 hectares of mining and quarrying projects in the Marikina Watershed that have caused recent and past flood disasters that affected their communities.

“This is the latest crackdown after the simultaneous one-day raids against human rights defenders in Metro Manila, indigenous Tumandok communities in Panay, and an indigenous Lumad evacuee school in Cebu. This deadly wave of attacks now has a toll of 14 killed and 53 arrested and counting,” said Dulce.

The environment group also pointed out that subsequent attacks linked to these operations are expected, like the murder of Barangay Captain Julie Catamin, a crucial witness of the Tumandok 9 massacre, and the stabbing of the Tumandok’s legal counsel Atty. Angelo Karl Guillen.

“These wholesale abuses must stop, and the Duterte government that spurs these attacks through red-tagging and fomenting hate must be held to account for his crimes against human rights,” said Dulce.#

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3 days ago

“The WEF will exploit the summit to streamline neoliberal globalisation. It will mean that global inequality and corporate monopoly would be sidetracked rather than confronted as the root cause of hunger and extreme poverty.” ... See MoreSee Less

Farmers and rights groups boycott food summit over big business links

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Focus on agro-business rather than ecology has split groups invited to planned UN conference on hunger

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3 days ago

Timeline Photos‘No Go!’ for Mining Plunder in a State of Planetary Emergency

In 2020, we faced a pandemic that emerged from ecological collapse and disaster upon disaster wrought by the climate crisis. This is the most urgent alarm yet over one of nature’s biggest threats: large-scale mining.

The encroachment into at least 22,414.36 hectares of watershed areas by mining and quarrying activities in the Cagayan and Marikina River Basins aggravated the consecutive typhoon and flooding disasters by ‘Rolly’ to ‘Ulysses’ last year. These disasters caused at least P41 billion of agricultural and infrastructural damages.

Lessons are yet to be learned. Today, on the 26th anniversary of the Mining Act of 1995, we slapped with 26 new mining projects aiming to start developments this year. With details still kept from public purview, it must be noted that prior to this, the Duterte government has also pronounced that 26 closed or suspended mines will be given clearance to reopen.

The Didipio copper-gold mine in Nueva Vizcaya province, a flashpoint anti-mining struggle facing an indigenous people’s barricade, was also given the go signal by Malacañan to continue with its negotiations for contract renewal.

All these, under the banner of supposed economic recovery from the COVID-19 economic crisis. All these, despite COVID-19 super-spreader events in the Lepanto mine site, and violent dispersals of barricaders against Oceanagold.

This is the legacy of the Mining Act that has freely opened up our mineralized lands to exploitation and foreign control, leaving behind ecological destruction and human rights violations.

During the auspices of last year’s Global Climate Strike in the Philippines, environment and climate justice groups came together to launch the Planetary Emergency Initiative (PEI). The PEI is a science and justice-based common agenda calling for urgent recovery measures that will shape our nation into a greener, sustainable future.

If we are to survive this state of planetary emergency, a moratorium on prospective and developing mining and quarrying projects must be immediately imposed. Oceanagold must be the first to go.

A People’s ‘Green New Deal’— the idea that economic stimuli amid pandemic and disasters should be invested in people and the planet— should be immediately passed by Congress. Aid and assistance for communities affected by COVID-19 and the Rolly-Ulysses disasters should translate into building back better homes and subsidizing climate-smart agriculture and fisheries for mutual aid cooperatives.

Forests must be restored as our natural protections to disasters and zoonotic diseases. Key biodiversity areas where mining agreements overlap should be reinforced by doubling the allocated budget and with 200 percent more forest rangers employed.

A just recovery must translate into a just transition. State subsidy must serve as the backbone of this weaning away from an extractivist, resource-cursed economy. Just compensation must be demanded from the nations and corporations indebted to the Philippines for their historic injustices.

The longstanding proposal for a Philippine Mineral Resources Act must be passed to repeal the Mining Act of 1995, and to serve as a ‘greenprint’ for regulating our mineral resources for people’s needs, not corporate greed.

This is doable. If the railroading of a multitude of economic stimulus programs in 2020 was made possible, there should be no problem in undertaking this collective vision of the environmental movement’s best and brightest.

We call on all local communities, all local governments, social movements, and civil society confronting mining-caused problems to the environment amidst the on-going pandemic and the climate crisis to take action on this planetary emergency. Join us in the Planetary Emergency Initiative.#

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5 days ago

Environmental advocates oppose Malacañang’s approval of Solar City reclamation project in Manila bay

Despite opposition, a long stretch of Manila Bay coastline has been greenlighted by Malacanang to be converted into a coastal megacity. The Manila Solar City project is a massive 148-hectare reclamation project that is part of the Manila-Cavite Coastal Road Reclamation (MCCRR)-North Sector Reclamation Project.

According to Amnesty International UK, local coastal communities are already at risk due to the country’s high climate vulnerability. In addition, questions by scientists as to the safety from liquefaction and damages of coastal and marine ecosystems in Manila Bay are yet to be settled.

Furthermore, just like the cries of local communities in the site of San Miguel’s Corporation’s Aerocity reclamation project in Bulacan, this is an untimely project under the current pandemic where people are already facing many challenges. Potential displacement and loss of access to fishing grounds will aggravate the situation of many fisherfolks and urban poor communities that will be affected. It can also be recalled that President Rodrigo Duterte announced his opposition of reclamation projects and Manila Mayor Isko Moreno said that these were not his priority. However, this is obviously contrary to their actions.

The Center for Environmental Concerns - Philippines call to ensure the rehabilitation of Manila Bay for the benefit of fisherfolk and local communities instead of large corporations and privileged few.

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