PAHAYAG: Kalikasan Naman! - TrYChange

Ang Climate Change ay negatibo at nakakasira ang dulot nito sa mga kabataan. Dahil sa mga patunay na mga nailathala na mga pag-aaral at sa mga nakikita’t nararamdaman nating epekto ng Climate Change ang buhay na patunay panganib na dulot nito. Hindi na kami maaaring magpaantala sa mga sabi-sabing ang climate change ay nakaugat sa mga natural na pangyayari, dahil ang mga nagaganap sa ngayon ay labis at patinding mabilisang pagbabago ng klima.

Ang Climate Change ay hindi lahat tungkol lamang sa pagbabago ng klima; ito ay tungkol sa pagbabago sa mga pattern ng aktibidad ng mga tao. Ito ay ang unang pandaigdigang krisis na nagsasangkot ang lahat ng tao sa bawat sulok ng mundo. Naniniwala kami na ang mga pamahalaan, mga korporasyon at ang kasalukuyang henerasyon ay dapat na papanagutin at bigyan ng responsibilidad sa kawalan ng katarungan sa mga susunod na henerasyon dahil sa pag-abuso sa kalisan.

Ang kalabisang gawa ng mga pambansang polisiya at programa para sa kalikasan kasama ang labis na paglikom ng ginansya ng mga korporasyon kapalit ang kalikasan at sangnilikha, nahahati pa ang mga komunidad at mamamayan na humantong sa mas lalong krisis ng mga paninindigan at hindi na nakita ang sentrong kaaway nila.

Kaya, kami mula sa TRY-CHANGE or TRI-PEOPLE YOUTH FOR CHANGE ay nananawagan na;

• ITIGIL ANG MINA SA MAGUINDANAO AT BUONG CENTRAL MINDANAO!
• LUPAING NINUNO, IPAMANA HUWAG IPAMINA!
• KATARUNGANG PANGKALIKASAN!
• ITIGIL ANG LAHAT NA MGA PROYEKTONG AGRESYON!
• KALIKASAN AT KARAPATANG PANTAO UNA SA LAHAT!
• IBASURA PHILIPPINE MINING ACT!
• PAPANAGUTIN ANG MGA HIGANTENG KORPORASYON AT MGA PULITIKONG NAGKASALA SA KALIKASAN!

Kasabay sa pandaigdigang pagkilos para sa Katarungang Pangklima, kasama ang TRYCHANGE sa ECOWALK: A Walk for Humanity and Environment sa ika-28 ng Nobyembre 2015 mula Nuro, Upi, Maguindanao hanggang Cotabato City.

KALIKASAN NAMAN!

27 Nov 2015

Reference Person

FARHANA A.TEKOKEN
Chairperson TRY-CHANGE
Cp. Num. 0926-345-2559
Eco_walk@yahoo.com

PAHAYAG:Tamang Panahon para sa Sangkatauhan at Kalikasan! - Kaagapay OFW

Ang pagkasira ng kalikasan ay malaking hamon para sa sangkatauhan at malaking banta sa kinabukasan ng mga kabataan. Ang malaking bahagi ng pagkasira dito ay dulot ng malawakang pagmimina sa iba't-ibang bahagi ng bansa lalong-lalo na sa mga lupaing ninuno ng mga katutubo na pinaniniwalaang mayaman sa likas-yaman, paggamit ng mga synthetic fertilizers sa produksyon sa agrikultura na mas inuuna ang ginansya kaysa sa kalusugan at kaligtasan ng mga mamamayan, malawakang plantasyon ng mga cash crops tulad ng rubber at oil palm na sumisira sa nutrisyon at kakayahan ng lupa na magpatubo ng malusog na pananim at sunud-sunod na pag-aproba at pag-operate ng mga coal-fired power plants sa Mindanao kahit na ito ang pinaka-maruming paraan ng pagkaroon ng power supply.

Ang lahat ng ito ay banta sa mga malilit na magsasaka na magkaroon ngdesenteng pamumuhay sa pagsasaka, sa mga katutubong nagpapahalaga sa kanilang lupaing ninuno at maging banta sa kalusugan at dislokasyon ng mga mamamayan.

Ang mga business investments na ibubuhos sa Mindanao lalong-lalo na sa ARMM ay dapat nakatuon sa pangmatagalang pangangailangan ng bawat tao at hindi sa ginansiya ng lokal na pamahalaan at iilan lamang.

Ang mining industry ay magbibigay ng oportunidad sa trabaho subalit panandalian lamang samantalang ang epekto nito sa pagkasira ng lupa, karagatan at hangin ay tatagal ng halos 500 taon.

Bilang pakikiisa sa mga 200 kabataang maglalakbay mula Upi, Maguindanao papuntang Cotabato City ngayong Nobyembre 28, 2015 sa EcoWALK: A Walk for Humanity and Environment, ang Kaagapay OFW Resource and Service Center, Incorporated ay nakikiisa din sa panawagang,

Magpatupad at magkaroon ng desente at pangmatagalang trabaho sa lokal!

Imbestigahan na ang mga illegal extractions ng lupa sa lupaing ninuno ng mga Teduray-Lambangian sa Maguindanao!

Ibasura ang Batas ng Pagmimina sa Pilipinas!

Tigilan na ang pagtaguyod ng coal-fired power plant! Itaguyod ang renewable energy resources!

Panahon na para magkaroon ng tamang desisyon para maprotektahan ang kalikasan at maipagpatuloy ang magandang kinabukasan ng mga kabataan!

Kaagapay OFW Resource and Service Center

27 November 2015

Cotabato City

STATEMENT: Defend Our Dreams! Defend Our Common Home! -SOFWC

(A Statement from Society of OFW Children (SOFWC) on the EcoWalk and the Struggle for Humanity and Environment)

Why do we have/need to conduct this Ecowalk?

Climate change, familiar words to us. If we heard Climate change, it can cause disasters such as drought, El Niño, forest fires, flooding and other natural calamities. This is the most deadly threat that humanity is faced with – Mindanao alone is faced with these kinds of disasters and the impacts are not selective to economic status. However, the poor people, vulnerable sectors like women, children, elderly, and Indigenous people are the most affected.

The struggle against climate change is not just a struggle for survival. It is a struggle for human rights for justice and peace, for a good quality of life for all people in harmony with nature and we have to make more than extra efforts here.

As children of Overseas Filipino Workers whose parents are working hard for our future, we cannot allow that those efforts would turn into nothing after destructions hit our communities – the Earth.

We are co-organizing and are joining the ECOWALK: A Walk for Humanity and Environment on the 28th of November 2015 from Nuro Upi Maguindanao up to City plaza of Cotabato with our fellow young people as one of our commitment standing for our generation and the coming ones.

All together let us demand and work for a society making environment and human rights must be center to all development efforts; Support and join the worldwide campaign for climate change justice; bring to the general public the Climate issues around us; and Promote Social Justice and Peace among people defending our Common Home..

Let us Defend Our Common Home – Earth!

“The best richness is the richness of the soul”
-Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.

MAY ALLAH GUIDES US ALL THE WAY AND KEEP US SAFE. AMEEN.

Lailanie A. Sali 

SOFWC

Stephany V. Silongan
SOFWC Area Representative

November 27, 2015

Cotabato City

PAHAYAG: Kinabukasan ay Huwag Isugal - AKMK - MagCot

Pahayag ng Alyansa ng Kabataang Mindanao para sa Kapayapaan
Maguindanao at Cotabato City (AKMK-MagCot)

Simula ika-30 ng Nobyembre ay magsisimula na ang United Nations Climate Change Conference sa bansang Pransya upang pag-usapan ang pagkakaroon ng pandaigdigang kasunduan tungkol sa pagbabago ng klima.

Sa nakalipas na mga taon ay naramdaman namin ang paglala ng epekto ng pagbabago ng klima na dulot ng pagkawala ng mga kagubatan at kakahuyan, ang pagkatuyo ng mga ilog at sapa, ang pagkasira ng mga pananim. Ilang taon na din na naranasan naming ang bagsik ng mga bagyo at ang matinding pagbaha na di lamang sumira sa aming mga tahanan kundi pati na rin ng aming mga kabuhayan.

Sa pagpapatuloy ng ganitong kalagayan, nakikinita naming ang isang kinabukasan na kung saan kaming mga kabataang magmamana ng kasulukuyan ay mararanasan pa ang mas matinding kahirapan dulot ng pagkasira ng inang kalikasan.

Kung kaya’t napapanahon na napatindiin din namin ang aming mga pagkilos upang singilin ang ating pamahalaan na syang sumusulong ng kaunlarang umuubos sa likas na yaman at hindi inaalintana ang epekto nito sa kabuhayan ng mga maralitang mamamayan at lalung-lalo na sa kinabukasan ng mga kabataan.

Kung kaya’t kaming mga kabataang nangunguna sa pagkilos upang ipanawagan na ang aming kinabukasan ay dapat na isaalang-alang sa lahat ng mga pagdedesisyon ng ating pamahalaan ay maglulunsad ng isang kilos protesta, isang palalakad alay sa kalikasan.

Ngayong ika-28 ng Nobyembre ay humigit-kumulang 300 na kabataang Bangsamoro, Lumad at Migrante ang mangunguna sa ECOWALK: A WALK FOR HUMANITY & ENVIRONMENT mula sa Nuro, Upi, Maguindanao hanggang sa Plaza ng Cotabato City.

Dadalhin namin ang mga sumusunod na panawagan:

1. Bigyang-ngipin ang Climate Change Act na naipasa noong 2009 at itigil ang mga huwad na solusyon sa pagbabago ng klima tulad ng nuclear energy, mega dams, “clean coal” energy at mga agro-fuels tulad ng palm oil.
2. Ibasura ang Mining Act, itigil ang malawakang pagtotroso at ang walang pakundangang pangingisda na nakakasira sa natural na daloy ng buhay lalung-lalo na ng mga maralitang nasa kanayunan. Sa halip, patindiin ang pagprotekta sa mga karapatan ng mga mamamayan sa kanilang pamumuhay.
3. Kilalanin, respetuhin at protektahan ang mga karapatan ng mga katutubo na syang una-unang naapektuhan ng mga proyektong pangkaunlaran. Ang kanilang mga ancestral domains na kung saan napapaloob ang mga natitira pang mga kagubatan at naideklarang protected areas ay kailangang pangalagaan.

Sa muli, ang aming kinabukasan ay hindi namin isusugal. Ito’y aming ipinaglalaban kung kaya’t kami ay magpapatuloy sa pag

ECOWALK: A Walk for Humanity and Environment
Nuro, Upi, Maguindanao to Cotabato CityDeparture at 4AM, 28 November 2015

Organizers:
Tri-people Youth for Change
Teduray, Lambangian Youth and Student Association
Society of OFW Children

i support ‪#‎EcoWalk‬

Reference Persons:
JAYSON R. ULUBALANG
09124767943

STATEMENT: By the guidance of the Nature and Spirits and Our Creator

Everything in this world is interconnected. For the Indigenous People, the nature is a part of our humanity. It is the sources for our day-to-day survival, and the space to exercise our culture and tradition. Living healthy environment is like living in a community with justice and peace. In such, we, the Indigenous Peoples cannot live in peaceful way if the environment is continually destroyed.

Climate change is a serious social problem. Nowadays, we are experiencing prolonged drought, super typhoons, and other calamities that destroyed lives and livelihoods of many. There are factors that worsen this situation such as the continuing cutting of trees, mining, and many development aggression activities.

In this worse situation, the Indigenous People communities suffer the negative impact of these environment issues. It does not only affect our economic condition, but also the whole aspect of our humanity and culture as keepers of the earth.

As part of our struggle for climate justice, we – the Teduray and Lambangian Youth and Students Association (TLYSA) strongly pledge our commitment to the ECOWALK for Humanity and Environment from Nuro Poblacion, Upi, Maguindanao to Cotabato City on November 28, 2015 as our contribution and support to the Global Call on Climate Justice.

By the guidance of the Nature and Spirits and Our Creator we call for the following:

1.    Justice to our environment

2.    Minimize cutting of trees

3.    No to mining within the Teduray and Lambangian Ancestral Domains

4.    Protect watershed area

5.    Repeal Philippine Mining Act of 1995

6.    Proper waste disposal

7.    Ancestral Domain; IPAMANA HINDI IPAMINA

8.    Stop denuding of forest

9.    Save the environment  not to shave

10.  Protect the environment for the future generation

Reference Person 

Charlene Saliga

Secretariat

TLYSA

27 November 2015

PAHAYAG: KALIKASAN AT KARAPATANG PANTAO UNA SA LAHAT!

24 November 2015

ECOWALK: A WALK FOR HUMANITY & ENVIRONMENT

Ang Climate Change ang isa sa pinaka nakapanlulumong banta ng kasalukuyan sa kalikasan higit sa lahat sa buhay ng mga tao.

Ang pakikibaka laban sa pag abuso ng kalikasan ay hindi lamang para mabuhay kaakibat nito ang paglalaban sa karapatang pantao, hustisya, at kapayapaan para sa ikagaganda ng pamumuhay ng tao sa kumunidad. Ang pakikibaka sa hustisya ng kalikasan ay nagpapakita sa pagsulong na itigil ang pag-abuso rito.

Sa kapanahunan ng Climate Negotiation sa Paris (COP21) nitong ika- 28 ng Nobyembre 2015 kung saan ang mga pinuno ng mga bansa ay inaasahang magdedesisyong pababain ang kanikanilang pag-gamit ng mga fossil fuels at bigyan ng agarang tugon ang krisis sa klima at mga biktima, ay kikilos din ang buong mundo upang ipakitang nakabantay tayo.

Ang pangkalikasang usapin ay may epekto at implikasyon sa mga mamamayan. Bilang koneksyon dito, ang Central at South Central Mindanao ay nagkaroon ng kakulangan sa supply ng pagkain, pagmimina at mga proyektong piligro naman ang kapalit sa tao.

Bilang Sektor ng kabataan, hindi namin hahayaan na maupo sa isang tabi at hintayin na lamang ang tuluyang pagwasak ng lupaing pamana ng aming mga ninuno at malagay sa alanganin ang sector ng kababaihan, kabataan, matanda at mga katutubo. Ang Teduray Lambangian Youth and Student Association (TLYSA), Tri-People Youth for Change (TRYCHANGE), at Society of OFW Children (SOFWC) mula sa Cotabato City at Maguindanao ay umiimbita sa lahat para sa isang araw na ECOWALK: A Walk for Humanity and Environment sa darating na ika-28 ng Nobyembre taong 2015 simula sa Nuro, UPI, Maguindanao patungong Plaza ng Cotabato City. Inaasahang may 300 na lalahok.

Layuning kampanya na mapataas ang karapatang pantao at kalikasan na maging sentro sa lahat ng pag-unlad. Pangalawa, sumuporta sa pandaigdigang kampanya para sa hustisya sa kalikasan. Pangatlo, maiparating sa publiko ang mga pangkalikasang usapin na nakapaligid sa kanila. Pang-apat, maisulong ang social justice at kapayapaan para sa mga tao.

Inaanyayahan po namin ang bawat indibidual na lumahok at sumuporta sa aming kampanya para sa kalikasan, umaasa kami sa inyong positibong pagtanggap.

Dala natin ang mga panawagang:

TUTULAN ANG MINA SA MAGUINDANAO AT BUONG CENTRAL MINDANAO!

LUPAING NINUNO, IPAMANA HWAG IPAMINA!

KATARUNGANG PANGKALIKASAN!

ITIGIL ANG LAHAT NA MGA PROYEKTONG AGRESYON!

KALIKASAN AT KARAPATANG PANTAO UNA SA LAHAT!

IBASURA PHILIPPINE MINING ACT!

Reference Persons:

LAIDA MUSA
TRYCHANGE
Cp Num: 09069736929
Email: try_change25@yahoo.com

RUEL MORFING
TLYSA
Cp Num: 09352768279
Email: tlysaorganization@yahoo.com.ph

Maguindanao - Cotabato City Youth ECOWALK: A Walk for Humanity and Environment

Climate Change is not just a topic of class room discussions. It is one of the deadliest threat that humanity is faced with.

The ecological question is relevant to human rights given that impacts and implications of climate change have strong and devastating effects to humanity. In connection with this, in Central and South Central Mindanao we have issues of food shortages, mining and development projects harming the mass population of peoples, land grabbing and threats to environment defenders.

As young people, Teduray, Lambangian Youth and Student Association (TLYSA), Tri-People Youth for Change (TrYChange) and Society of OFW Children (SOFWC) respectively from Cotabato City and Maguindanao province organizations we are organizing a one day ECOWALK: A Walk for Humanity and Environment on the 28th of November 2015 from Nuro, Upi, Maguindanao to the City Plaza of Cotabato City which we are expecting 300 individuals joining the activity.

ECOWALK aims to: 1. Raise environment and human rights must be center to all development efforts; 2. Support and join the worldwide campaign for Climate Justice; 3. Inform the general public on environmental questions around us; 4. Promote Social Justice and Peace among peoples.

Issues among other development aggression projects by the public and private entities in Central and South-Central Mindanao are also to be raised during the walk and to particularly demand in all processes making human rights and environment as core concerns.

If you are interested to join and or support the campaign please feel free to contact: Laida Musa (09069736929); Charlene Saliga (09168432238) or Milyn Cruz (09368899376) or thru tlysaorganization@yahoo.com.ph and try_change25@yahoo.com

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19 November 2015
Cotabato City

NEWS RELEASE: Workers most affected but the richest 1% got all of APEC gains

Lost income, travel ban, road closures and clamp down on protests are all that workers will get this week while APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) VIPs and delegates travel in comfort, ensured of total security, and their agenda heard and advanced during high level meetings.

People walk to Baclaran from NAIA Road (MB Photo by Ali Vicoy)

 

According to the partylist group Partido Manggagaw (PM), this contrast is a mere continuity of the sharp divide that characterizes APEC history – “workers doing the great sacrifice while APEC leaders and the capitalist class take control of enormous wealth and appropriating it among themselves and the region’s 1%.”

 

Members of Partido Manggagawa and the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) have a scheduled protest against the scourge of contractualization along the Airport Road and Roxas boulevard tomorrow but the total shutdown of the area is preventing many participants, including those coming from Cavite, from linking in.

 

“APEC will neither pay for workers’s lost wages nor care about their lost hours in traffic.  APEC also won’t bother curtailing workers’ rights to protest. These are all because APEC is all for business, its agenda is all about free trade and free market,” stated PM chair Renato Magtubo.

 

Magtubo said that for almost three decades, APEC was nothing but an exclusive gathering of business leaders whose agenda for trade and investments are guaranteed by aligning governments’ legal frameworks on economic policies. 

 

“Workers who created APEC’s USD 31 trillion GDP and facilitated 47% of world trade have never been made part of this Summit.  All of APEC’s agenda come from the top CEOs under the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC),” said Magtubo.

 

According to PM, part of APEC policies that have been pushed by business is labor flexibilization that takes a major form in outsourcing/contractualization programs.  “PAL’s outsourcing program is hailed by its bosses, as well as the Philippine President, as ‘global best practice’, indicating a major shift in the country’s industrial relation,” added Magtubo.

 

“Worldwide labor contractualization has become a plague – a policy that killed trade unionism, destroyed workers’ security of tenure, depressed wages, killed small and medium businesses, and driven millions of workers to unemployment and precarious working conditions in the informal economy,” explained Magtubo.

 

With a population of 2.8 billion people, the APEC economies are also home to the most number of billionaires, while some 750 million poor people live on less than USD 1.25 a day.

 

The Asian Development Bank has in fact noted that Asia’s rising inequality has denied the benefits of growth to many millions of its citizens “as the regions rich get richer much faster than the poor.”

16 November 2015

STATEMENT: We are all Parisians. We are all Migrants. We are all Refugees

(Statement on the events in Paris, Sinai, and Beirut, Nov 16, 2015.)

By Walden Bello

Former Chairman of the Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs, House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines

We express our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who perished in Paris, Beirut, and the Metrojet explosion over the Sinai.

Those who planned and took the lives of hundreds of innocent human beings committed hideous deeds, deeds that go against the universal values of humanity. These barbaric acts can never, never be justified by an appeal to religion. They go against the essence of Islam, a religion that affirms life.

At the same time, we must discern the reasons why people are driven to such acts. Their actions stem not from nihilism but from a perverted sense of justice, out of a desire for vengeance against wrongs done to their people. As a recent statement from Attac France points out, one cannot separate the events in Paris from the military interventions of the French government in Syria, Mali, Chad, Niger, and Central African Republic. One must also place them in the context of the exclusion and economic marginalization that has led to a profound sense of alienation and anger among France’s migrant population. Isis or Daesh, Attac correctly states, “derives its inhuman strength from these injustices.”

President Francois Hollande declares that “France is at war.” He needs to be reminded of the words of another head of state, at a time of infinitely greater challenge, that in circumstances such as that in which France finds itself, “The worst thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Despite its superficial militance, President Hollande’s statement is really a case of giving in to fear and panic.

The failure of the “War on Terror” declared by the US government since 2001 reminds us that a military strategy is the wrong answer to Isis. While governments must protect their citizens, the principal response to Isis and Al Qaeda should be to address the historical and contemporary injustices that have bred them. The “merciless war” that President Hollande promises is wrongheaded and will merely accelerate the descent into even more violence. Instead of a declaration of war, the only viable response of humanity today is one that repudiates vengeance and seeks peace with justice.

A grave danger that confronts Europe is a response that scapegoats migrants and migrant communities as responsible for the deeds of Isis and advocates curtailment of their rights and the closing of borders to people seeking asylum from the wars in the Middle East in which the Western powers are implicated. In France, the National Front led by Marine Le Pen, is likely to benefit from the fears and prejudices stoked by the attacks. It is imperative that the peoples of France and Europe stand fast against these racist, anti-Muslim reactions. It is imperative that they resist calls to “merciless war” that simply conciliate and embolden the rabid right.

Filipinos are prominent among the migrant populations of Europe, North America, and the Middle East. While they may not be the targets of attack at this point, anti-foreign and anti-migrant feelings, if allowed to spread, will eventually target them too. They must stand in solidarity with all migrant communities.

We are all Parisians. We are all migrants. We are all refugees.

PAHAYAG: Huwag Ilihis ang Isyu, Pakinggan ang mga Katutubo!

Kumalat at kumakalat ang paninira at pagpapahina sa giit ng mga non.moro Lumad sa ARMM sa usaping bangsamoro. Iniuugnay sa mga rebolusyonaryong kilusan ang mga personalidad ng mga non.moro Indigenous Peoples na nagsusumikap mailagay sa panukalang bangsamoro ang kanilang mga karapatan sa teritoryo, pagkakilanlan at bilang mamamayan. Na kuno sila ay mga kasapi ng Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Mndanao, Communist Party of the Philippines, at kung anu.ano pang maka.kaliwang grupo.

Sa totoo lang, hindi ito ang isyu dito sa iginigiit ng mga lumad sa Bangsamorong usapin. Kung susuriin pa, posible nga namang may membrong lumad ang mga maka.kaliwang kilusan at maging ang Moro Islamic Liberation Front , Moro National Libertaion Front, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters at iba pang grupo. Kahit gagawa pa ng profiling sa mga pwersa nito.

Subalit ang tunay na isyu dito ay ang pagpapahalaga at pagkilala sa mga demokratikong karapatan bilang mamamayan ng mga non.moro lumads sa loob ng anumang political entity sa bansa.

Kung mismong ang panig ng Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas ang tatalikod sa mga lumad dahil hindi nito kayang panindigan sa usapang pangkapayapaan ang lehitimong karapatan ng mga lumad ay tiyak ngang maghahanap ng iba pang porma ng pakikibaka ang mga lumad. ANG PAMAHALAAN NG PILIPINAS MISMO ANG NAGTULAK AT MAGTUTULAK SA KANILA NA KUMILING SA MGA REBOLUSYONARYONG KILUSAN. At napatunayan na ito sa kasaysayan.

Kung ang attitude ng mga panig na nag.uusap at ng mga supporters ng pag.uusap ay ang pahinain at isantabi ang mga lehitimong karapatang ito, bahagi rin ito sa mortal na pagkakasala laban sa mga lumad.

Kung ang red.tagging ay upang pahinain at ineutralisa ang assertions ng mga non.moro ips, malaking mali ito.

Maliwanag na may bigat at may katuturan at kabuluhan ang hinaing ng mga katutubo. DAPAT LANG PAKINGGAN.

SUPORTAHAN ANG PAKIKIBAKA SA SARILING KAPASYAHAN NG BANGSAMORO!

TIYAKIN ANG MGA DEMOKRATIKONG KARAPATAN NG MASANG MORO!

KARAPATAN SA LUPAING NINUNO AT PAGKAKILANLAN NG MGA LUMAD SA BANGSAMORO, BIGYANG KATIYAKAN!

KARAPATANG PANTAO AT KALIKASAN TUPARIN!

KAPAYAPAAN!

Tatay Remo Fenis

STATEMENT: PRAYERS and SOLIDARITY to all our friends and comrades in Paris, France.

Our PRAYERS and SOLIDARITY to all our friends and comrades in Paris, France. 

Violence against innocent civilians and humanity is at all times not a justification for a legitimate cause but simply an act of terrorism and evil doing. This is not an Islamic Jihad but a big misconception. Because a true act of Jihad will never harm humanity and the environment.

People in the Philippines, let us all be vigilant in our own security situation as well especially this time when our government is busy preparing for the upcoming APEC Summit in Manila next week. The grand preparations poured in to this APEC is even extremely scandalous knowing that more than half of our populations are hungry, no decent place to live in and are suffering in dire poverty.

ACT and BE PART OF THE SOLUTION and NOT the problem!
WORK FOR PEACE!!!

Tri-People Organization against Disasters (TRIPOD) Foundation

STATEMENT: 2 year after ST Yolanda: More to be done - MIHANDS

Particularly the Philippine government and line agencies must have to work more than very hard to ease the hardships of the survivors. 

Rehabilitation efforts must not be used for the electoral advantage of the administration's bets and the rest of the politicians.

The Civil Society and pressure groups must be instruments in empowering the survivors in claiming their rights.

To the survivors, organize and claim justice for you, those departed and for the environment.

We have more reasons to fight for ‪#‎ClimateJustice‬.

MiHANDs 8 Nov 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMPrX3y_qzc
DUYOG TA BAY

PAHAYAG: Panawagan ng mga Lumad ng Mindanao

Itigil ang Panunupil sa mga Katutubong Lider at Pamayanan!

Itigil ang Pag-agaw ng aming Karapatan sa Pagkontrol at Soberinya sa aming Lupaing Ninuno at Likas naYaman!

Panawagan ng mga Lumad sa ika-18 Anibersaryo ng Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act (IPRA)

Oktubre 29, 2015

Kaming mga kasapi ng Katawhang Lumad - Council of People’s Representatives ng Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Movement (MPPM KL-CPR), na nagmula sa mga tribung Agusan Manobo, B’laan, Banwaon, Dulangan Manobo, Erumanen nu Menuvu, Higaonon, Kulamanen, Lambangian, Mamanwa, Manobo Lapaknon, Matigsalog, Obu Manovu, T’boli, Tagakaulo, Talaandig, Tinananen, Teduray, Subanen, at Surigao Manobo ay labis na nababahala sa patuloy na pananamantala at panunupil sa aming mga karapatan ng mga pwersa ng gobyerno, rebolusyonaryong grupo, politiko, at mga kompanyang may interes sa aming Lupang Ninuno. Ang mga ito ay nagdudulot ng matinding hirap sa aming pamumuhay at kalagayan.

Ang aming buhay ay malalim na naka-ugat sa aming Lupaing Ninuno. Dito namin kinukuha ang aming mga pangangailangan sa araw-araw, at dito rin namin isinasabuhay ang aming tradisyon, kultura, pananampalataya at pamamahala bilang isang mamamayang Lumad.

Ang patuloy na pagwasak sa aming mga lupain sa pamamagitan ng malawakang pagmimina, pagtotroso/logging, plantasyon, rantso, at iba pang mga proyekto na pwersahang pumapasok sa aming mga lupain ay patuloy na pagwasak rin sa aming pamumuhay, pagkatao at kinabukasan ng aming mga susunod na salinlahi. Ito ay nagresulta sa pagkawala ng kontrol at soberenhiya ng mg katutubo sa kanyang lupaing ninuno at likas yaman.

Kami ay palagi at patuloy na naaapektuhan sa labanan ng gobyerno at mga rebolusyonaryong grupo. Ang aming mga lupaing ninuno ay nagiging lugar ng digmaan o battle ground sa pagitan ng mga pwersa ng gobyerno (AFP) at rebolusyunaryong grupo kagaya ng Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) at maging iba pang armadong grupo. Dahil sa kanilang tunggalian na karaniwang na-uuwi sa gyera, kami ay napipilitang mapatigil sa pagsaka at iwanan ang aming mga komunidad dahil sa takot na madamay sa kanilang digmaan. Kasama rin dito ang takot at pagkabahala ang pag re-recruit sa aming mga kabataan at kalalakihan ng mga armadong grupo.

Ang patuloy na karahasan sa aming pamayanan ay mas lalong nagpapahina ng aming sariling katutubong pamamahala. Marami sa mga kaguluhang ito ay nagsimula ng maliit sa loob ng pamayanan na kayang-kaya na sanang lutasin ng mga katutubong pinuno. Subalit ito ay ginagatungan at pinapalaki ng mga tinatawag na “support group” at dinadala sa paraan ng paglutas na hindi naaayon sa tradisyunal na nakasanayang paraan. 

Ang IPRA ay batas na para sa amin, at dapat itong ipatupad upang aming matamasa at mapangalagaan ang buhay na aming nakasanayan na nakabase sa aming katutubong kultura, pananampalataya at pamamahala. Subalit hanggang ngayon ay hirap pa rin kaming matamasa ang mga karapatang ipinagkaloob ng IPRA.

Kadalasan, sadyang hindi sinusunod ang proseso ng pagkuha ng aming pahintulot sa paggamit sa aming mga lupain o angFree, Prior, and Informed consent (FPIC), sapagkat ayaw naming magpapasok ng mga proyektong nakakasira sa aming lupaing ninuo, o ng mga grupong ginagawang lugar ng gyera ang aming lupain lalo na ang mga kabundukan.

Dahil sa aming kagustuhang protektahan ang aming mga tribu, komunidad at lupaing ninuno at isulong ang aming karapatang pangalagaan at pagyamanin ang aming mga lupaing ninuno, kami at ang aming mga komunidad ay ginugulo, kinakasuhan, binabantaan, at pinapatay. Maliban dito, kami ay ipinagtutulakan pang miyembro o supporters ng mga armadong grupo kagaya ng NPAs, o kung hindi naman ay ng military o di kaya’y ng private armed groups.

Kayat ngayong anibersaryo ng pagkakatatag ng IPRA, ang batas para sa amin, kami ay nananawagan na:

1. Tigilan ang patuloy na militarisasyon sa aming mga komunidad at lupaing ninuno. Kami ay nananawagang lisanin ng mga armadong grupo lalo na ng New People’s Army, MILF, militar at ng mga private armed groups;

2. Itigil ang pag recruit sa mga lumad bilang kasapi ng New People’s Army at AFP at gawing Bagani (Pulang Bagani, Alamara, Bagani ng Militar). Ang Bagani ay katutubong pamamaraan ng pagprotekta sa katutubong pamayanan at sa mga taong nakatira sa ilalim ng pamumuno ng pinuno ng tribu. Itong tradisyunal na katutubong pamamaraan ay hindi dapat lapastanganin sa pamamagitan ng paggamit sa pangalan ng Bagani sa iba pang layunin maliban sa pinuprotektahan ang tribu at ang lupaing ninuno.

3. Respetuhin at kilalanin ang aming karapatan sa katutubong pamumuhay, kultura, pananampalataya at sariling pamamahala.

4. Magkarooon ng IP peace program ang Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) at ang National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) ay magkaroon ng peace program. 

Para sa mga katutubo,

5. Ipagpatuloy at palakasin natin ang ating Indigenous Political Structure (IPS) o katutubong pamamahala at paglutas ng mga problema bilang mekanismo para sa proseso ng epektibong pag desisyon ng tribu;

6. Magkaroon nga pagtitipun ang lahat nga mga katutubong pamamahala at lider sa loob ng Mindanao para pag-usapan at makonsolida ang totoong konsepto at gamit ng mga Bagani para maiwasan na hindi magamit sa mga bagay na hindi naayon sa kanyang mga tungkulin.

7. Ipinapanawagan sa lahat ng mga katutubong mamamayan na manindigan at ibalik ang tiwala at kumpiyansa sa sariling pamumuno at kakayanan para maiwasan ang pagkawatak-watak at dominasyon ng taga labas na idolohiya.

Ito ay aming nilagdaan ngayong ika 18 taong anibersaryo ng IPRA bilang pagpapakita sa aming pagkakaisa at lakas.

Itigil ang Panunupil sa mga Katutubong Lider at Pamayanan!

Itigil ang Pang-aagaw sa aming mga Lupaing Ninuno at Likas-Yaman!

Hustisya para mga Pinaslang na mga Katutubong Lider!

Signed:

(Sgd)

Rodelio N. Ambangan

09266803846 

Chairperson

originally posted http://tripeoplesjournal.blogspot.com/...

Youth-led ECOWALK launched in Lanao

As the Climate negotiation in Paris is fast approaching and the impact of climate change intensifies, worldwide movements for climate justice launched various forms of expressions and campaigns.

The 21^st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) will be held Paris this December 2015. The various movements are to appeal that is directed to the international community to cooperate in addressing climate change and to support the conclusion of an ambitious, universal and legally-binding agreement to limit the warming of the earth.

Joining the worldwide battle against dirty energy and to advance renewable energy source, the Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan – Lanao launched ECOLOGICAL WALK (ECOWALK): A Call for Climate Justice. It was participated by more than 50 young people, fisher folks and farmer communities’ members from municipalities of Sultan Naga Dimaporo, Kapatagan, Lala, Kolambugan and Tubod all in Lanao del Norte.

The walk was also participated by several youth and Mass Organizations namely, Pigcarangan Youth Service Organization (PYSO); Nagkahiusang Kabatan-onan Tuburan sa Kinaiyahan (NAKATUKI); Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan–Iligan and MSU; Muntay Active Young Leaders Association (MAYLA); Coal Resistance Movement; Kilos Ka – Lanao; Demokratikong Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (DKMP); and Lanao Fisheries Advocacy Network.

“We have to show explicitly our resistance to Coal projects around Panguil Bay in Misamis Occidental and Lanao del Norte provinces as children of fisher folks,” Ian Gruta, a member of LMK said.

A number of individuals from the community of Log Pond, Tubod, Lanao Del Norte also joined the ECOWALK.

The walk started at 5:00am on October 10, 2015 in Maranding, Lala to Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

The walk was welcomed by Tubod Association of Barangay Captains President Luncio Bagol and Municipal Councilor Hon. Jun Manosa of Tubod. Both gave thanks to the initiative and have committed to stand with the Lao Estate tenants.

In a short program, there was sharing of issues among us and our communities like, land conversion and harassment from a developer claiming the land they are tilling.

According to LMK-Lanao Chairperso Jastine Abelardo, fighting and standing for the communities and nature is worth doing after they have visited the whole site devastated by the housing project in the community and after hearing and seeing the situation of the Lao Estate in Tubod tenants.

Mr Abelardo narrated that, “the EcoWalk is also to highlight our strong demands for:

1. ‪Climate Justice!

2. ‪Stop the Lumad Killings!

3. Food Sovereignty Now!

4. Cancellation of Coal Projects in the Philippines!

5. Justice for the community and individual victims of repressions and militarization!”

The groups and walkers have agreed to engage the 2016 National Election candidates on the basis of environment and agrarian concerns.

Contact Person:

Jastine S. Abelardo

Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan – Lanao

Chairperson

lmkabataan@yahoo.com.ph

13 October 2015

Declaration, Mindanao Grassroot Human Rights Conference

We, the seventy-six (76) participants from the different provinces of Mindanao representing the fifty-two (52) grassroots organizations of Lumad, Bangsamoro and Migrant Settlers, actively advocating and working for the advancement and protection of human rights convened during the Mindanao Grassroots Human Rights Conference held at Dapit Alim, Simbuco, Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte on September 3-5, 2015. We strongly express,

The current global economic and political framework is only at the best interest of the few;

The common people continuously experience massive and intense curtailment and violations of their human rights. The absence of sustainable and decent work; unjust and unfair system of labor like contractualization and informalization; absence of support services from the government like genuine agrarian reform and support to family-based and small scale farmers and fisherfolks; lack of support and protection to OFWs; lack of budget and insufficient implementation of program for education and other basic social services; and imposition of profit-driven development to communities such as mining, logging, agri-business plantation and construction of coal-fired power plants have resulted to massive land grabbing of ancestral and agricultural lands of the people and the devastation of the environment;

The poverty induced by inhumane development dictated by a system that accumulates excessive profit, monopolizes and privatizes natural resources have resulted to immense gap and unequal development of the society and dehumanize the common people;

The on-going armed conflict and militarization in Mindanao extremely violates the rights of the people to life and to live peacefully. This also causes massive displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from their land, work and home.

Human rights defenders and advocates were persecuted while others experience harassment because of ‘red tagging’ – they are associated to rebel groups and other elements who alleged to be enemies of the state and corporations.

In general, the Lumads, Bangsamoro and Migrant Settlers in Mindanao are in great jeopardy as they themselves are victims of impunity in defending human rights.

We believe that in our collective efforts, we can strengthen the peoples’ movements to advance human rights as fundamental in attaining genuine peace and sustainable development in Mindanao and in the country in general;

We will promote mechanisms that would always protect the victorious struggle of the people and the community for peace, development and human right;

 We are in solidarity with all the movements in the local, national and international in order to fortify the struggle for human rights;      

We are unified in strengthening our movement as response to the challenges and threats to the democratic realization of rights of the people and of the environment;

We call and demand for:

·         Stop militarization in the communities!

·         Stop the divide and rule tactics employed to the people in the communities!

·         Stop mining, logging, agri-business plantations and construction of coal-fired power plants and other projects that destroy the environment and community!

·         End harassments of the farmers and tenants and genuinely implement agrarian and fisheries reforms!

·         Strict implementation of minimum wage, social benefits and end contractualization practices in labor!

·         Sufficient program that protect OFWs and all the workers!

·         End privatization of basic social services (health, education, water, transportation, irrigation, electricity, housing, etc.)!

·         Justice to the victims of extra-judicial killings and destructive projects done by the state and non-state elements!

·         Fast track the process of ancestral domain claims!

·         Efficient programs and services for the victim-survivors of calamities and armed conflicts!

·         Genuine participation of the people and the community in the peace processes in order to advances its inclusivity!

·         Full inclusion of Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) in the Bangsamoro Basic Law!

·         Promote peaceful means in resolving armed conflicts in Mindanao!

·         Strictly implement the existing mechanisms that fully realize human rights!

For the rights of all people and of the environment:

1.      Kaagapay OFW Resource and Service Center

2.      Maharlika – DKMP-Lanao

3.      KALESALE - DKMP-Lanao

4.      Lig-ong Hiniusang Kusog sa mga Kabus sa Iligan (LIHUK)

5.      Movement of Young Catalysts for Change (MYCC)

6.      Kahugpungan sa mga Mangingisda sa Kolambugan (KASAMAKO)

7.      Lanao Fisheries Advocacy Netwrok (LFAN)

8.      Iligan Survivors Movement (ISM)

9.      LUMAKA

10.  LAWIG – Byahe sa Kausaban

11.  Lapayan Power Movement Association (LPMA)

12.  Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan (LMK)

13.  Lanao Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (LAHRA)

14.  Mindanao Peoples Peace Movement (MPPM)

15.  Manga Solo Parents Association (MASPA)

16.  Nagkahiusang Mangingisda sa Karumatan (NAMANGKA)

17.  Mindanao Tri-People Youth Center (MTPYC)

18.  Teduray-Lambangian Youth and Student Association (TLYSA)

19.  Timuay Justice and Governance (TJG)

20.  Mindanao Tri-people Women Resource Center (MTWRC)

21.  Alyansa ng Mamamayan para sa Karapatang Pantao (AMKP)

22.  Nagkahiusang Mag-uumang Organiko (NAMAO)

23.  Filipino Katoliko (FK) CARAGA

24.  Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Initiative, Research Assistance Center (MIPIRAC)

25.  Kagkalimwa OFW Federation

26.  Cadiz Farmers Association

27.  SDL-GenSan

28.  Kalamungog Farmers Association (KALFA)

29.  ALAKOP Council of Timuays

30.  Inged Fintailan – Timuay Justice and Governance

31.  Tri-people Youth (TRY)-Change

32.  Ranao Women and Children Resource Center (RWCRC)

33.  Demokratikong Kilusang Magbubukid (DKMP)-Lanao

34.  Tri-people Organization against Disaster (TRIPOD) Foundation

35.  Pigkarangan Youth and Student Organization (PYSO)

36.  Ranaw Tri-people Movement for Genuine Peace and development (RTMGPD)

37.  Sumpay Mindanao

38.  Soodoroy de Kelebunan Women

39.  Mamalu Descendants Organization (MDO)

40.  Sustainable Alternatives for the Advancement of Mindanao (SALAM)

41.  Lanao Aquatic and Marine Fisheries Center for Community Development (LAFCCOD)

42.  Nagkahiusang Organisasyon sa mga Mangingisda sa Tubod (NOMATUB)

43.  Convergence of NGOs/POs in Zamboanga del Sure for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (CONZARRD)

44.  Kahugpungan sa mga Mag-uuma ug Mamumuong Kababayen-an (KASAMMAKA)

45.  Lig-ong Panaghiusa sa mga Mamamuo sa Banika sa Lanao (LPMBL)

46.  Kilusang Maralita sa Kanayunan (KILOS KA)

47.  Electoral Reforms and Development  Assistance Center (ERDAC)

48.  Ilelama Council of Timuays

49.  Coal Resistance (CoRe) Movement

50.  Teatro Pag-asa

51.  Alyansa sa mga Kabus sa Lungsod ug Syudad (AKLAS)

52.  Alyansa ng Kabataang Mindanao para sa Kapayapaan (AKMK)

Contact Persons:

Adona Orquillas

Chairperson

Alliance of Tri-people for the Advancement of Human Rights ( ALTAHR)

Mobile #: 09356659608

Jennevie Cornelio

Secretary General

Alliance of Tri-people for the Advancement of Human Rights ( ALTAHR)

Mobile #: 09061370457