Blog Posts on ancestral domain
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[In the news] Bukidnon-Tagoloan tribe reclaims riverside sacred site – MindaNews.com by hronlineph.com on Jan 15, 2012Bukidnon-Tagoloan tribe reclaims riverside sacred site By Walter I. Balane January 15, 2012 MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 January) – Members of the Bukidnon-Tagoloan tribe today held a ritual symbolizing their recovery of a spring along the Sawag...
Deja Vu: How Ondo Perez could be another Rolando Mendoza by The Social Scientist on Apr 4, 2011Manobo clan leader Ondo Perez/APThe Aquino government hasn't even reached its first anniversary in office and yet it is being taken hostage once more, this time by a group of armed Manobo tribesmen. On Friday, the group abducted 14 people including t...
QUO VADIS. SAGUITTARIUS? by durianburgdavao on Nov 2, 2010SPECIAL REPORT AQUINO ASKED TO PROBE GIANT MINING FIRM (First of three parts) By Environmental Media In Action (ENVIROMEDIA) After being denounced by the Catholic Church, cursed by environmentalists and indigenous people, th...
Nogie: Judas to the landless by durianburgdavao on Apr 12, 2010NOGRALES is biggest real estate agent in the country For pushing a law allowing foreign ownership of the land in the Philippines, Speaker Prospero C. Nograles is tagged as the biggest real estate agent in the country. “By maneuvering to have the...
Gold mining in Mt. Diwata earns new player by durianburgdavao on Oct 9, 2009 Mining firm seeks Diwalwal partnership in gold mining Another mining company has joined the search for gold in the bowels of Mt. Diwata in Monkayo, Compostela Valley which has a gold deposit of $8 billion waiting to be tapped. Comval Tribal Resourc...
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SEEK MILITARY ASSISTANCE VS. COMMUNIST REBELS by durianburgdavao on Oct 9, 2009DAVAO CITY- A group of Lumads sought the protection of military authorities in what they alleged widespread killings of Lumad leaders in Southern Mindanao region allegedly by local communist-New People’s Army (NPA), said Capt. Emmanuel R. Garcia,...
Mining intruding into ancestral domains by durianburgdavao on Sep 18, 2009Ungab sets probe on mining in Mati A House of Representatives committee is set to hold a hearing to probe intrusion by mining companies into ancestral domain lands in Mati, Davao Oriental. Representative Isidro Ungab, vice chair of the House committe...
Mangyans of Paitan, then and now by JLAGMAN17 NEWS DIGEST on May 8, 2009Commentary : Mangyans of Paitan, then and nowBy Denis MurphyPhilippine Daily InquirerPosted date: May 06, 2009My wife and I were at the graduation Mass in the Mangyan Mission in Paitan, Mindoro Oriental, just before Holy Week. It was our first visit...
From distress to hope by The Life of A Not-So Princess on Apr 21, 2009Life between displacements and atrocities is a life of narrowing light of hope. This is how Fatima, 40 years old, widow, mother of eight, described her situation. Fatima’s children were born and raised in Manila, miles away from her origin in A...
Fragile peace blows away in Mindanao by The Life of A Not-So Princess on Feb 20, 2009Mindanao has a long history complicated by time. And so is war and peace. A war may ignite as the revolutionary Moro Islamic Liberation Front troops and Government of the Republic of the Philippines military forces are battle ready, and so is peace...
