3 MIN READFor nearly four decades, they served the people of Ilocos, organizing communities and leading campaigns. Their lives show how people built and sustained local organizations within the communities whose rights and livelihoods they sought to defend.
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4 MIN READ Four environmental defenders from Northern Luzon—two grassroots organizations, a Catholic bishop, and a detained community physician—have been shortlisted for their work protecting the environment, ancestral lands, and community rights.
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2 MIN READ Residents from seven barangays gathered in Manag on Sept. 5 to demonstrate community unity as they discussed Indigenous peoples’ rights and legal options to oppose large-scale mining applications in Conner.
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3 MIN READAround 200 tribal elders and peace advocates from Mountain Province and Kalinga gathered in Bontoc to address tribal conflicts and strengthen the traditional bodong or peace pact, amid ongoing conflicts that have claimed lives and affected community livelihoods and well-being.
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4 MIN READTheir comrades and friends remembered them as Ka Chico and Ka Ken — organizers whose music and art became part of the work they chose to do among communities in the Cordillera.
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3 MIN READThe deployment of police officers and soldiers to a community barricade on August 5 in Barangay Paquet, and the order to residents to remove the pole blocking the road, have drawn criticism and protests from the community, their lawyers, and environmental groups.
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2 MIN READChurches held solidarity services at community barricades opposing mining projects in Benguet and Nueva Vizcaya, supporting residents’ calls to protect ancestral lands, farms, rivers, watersheds, and livelihoods.
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3 MIN READProgressive groups in Baguio said the true state of the nation is reflected in vegetable prices, contested mining operations, defended ancestral lands, and political power concentrated in a few families.
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2 MIN READIn separate actions, senior citizens in Baguio and the public school teachers union in the Cordillera demanded accountability, higher education funding and better public services ahead of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s fifth State of the Nation Address on July 27.
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2 MIN READ Indigenous women in the Cordillera are urging President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to use his fifth State of the Nation Address to announce concrete measures protecting ancestral lands, communities and environmental defenders.
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