Category: news
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Japanese Bank JBIC Urged to Say “Sayonara to Fossil Fuels”
PRESS RELEASE | Climate advocates rallied in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila to urge the government of Japan to implement the total phase-out of public financing for fossil fuel projects which is “causing the imminent catastrophe that is staring humanity in the face, by way of record-breaking heat,…
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Protest vs Biden, Kishida and Marcos summit
Climate advocates stage a protest near the US embassy in Manila on April 11, 2024, ahead of the trilateral meeting of US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. in Washington D.C. They called on both the US and Japan to “Stop Dirty…
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Resilient Group “Kababaihang Mangingisda” of Calatagan Make Waves with Seaweed Processing
The Samahan ng Kababaihang Mangingisda ng Sitio Manuel Uy (SKMSMU) is an all-women group based in the far-flung Sta. Ana in Calatagan, Batangas. SKMSMU is engaged mainly in the business of producing crackers and chips out of seaweeds. Established in 2012, the organization started with 30 members, all spouses of…
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Climate Campaigners Rally vs Asia’s Top Dirty Insurers
Member of the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) hold a protest action in Makati City, the Philippines’ prime business district on March 1, 2024 to demand that the top insurers end their support for coal, oil and gas companies. The climate campaigners claimed that “big companies which…
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“Tahungan”: A Fisherfolk’s Struggle in the Face of Coastal Developments
In 2021, as part of its Manila Bay rehabilitation program, the government ordered the dismantling of bamboo poles used as fish cages and “tahungan” farms along the waters of Cavite — a move which the fisherfolks say is a “prelude to massive reclamation projects that are meant to wipe out…
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Farmers demand Marcos to Distribute Cojuangco Haciendas to ARBs
Hundreds of landless farmers from Negros Occidental and Batangas staged a die in protest in front of the main office of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Quezon City on Monday, February 19, demanding the immediate distribution of private agricultural lands (PALs) as promised last year by President Ferdinand…
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CSOs Call on DOF for Tax Reforms Amid New UN Tax Resolution
Leaders belonging to various civil society organizations call on the Department of Finance to take this opportune time for the Philippines to play its role in remaking global rules for a tax reform that would equitably raise revenues to guarantee peoples’ rights to public services and a rapid, just transition…
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Whispering Hope
Communication Arts students of De La Salle University photographed for their photojournalism class individuals in Metro Manila before Christmas 2022 and asked their subject’s hope for the coming year and beyond.
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Labtingaw Fish Dying in Dipolog City Amid Poverty
LABTINGAW FISH BE WITH YOU. Mitzi Rubio, 29 and a mother of two arranges her labtingaw, a significantly less salty and less dry version of bulad (dried fish) near their house on stilts in a swamp area in Dipolog City, Mindanao on December 23, 2023. She said her husband’s income…
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