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Featured image: This month, hundreds of Lumad evacuated their homes out of fear of being attacked by the military. Photo: ALCADEV by Cristina Rey / Intercontinental Cry Last May, the government of the Philippines announced the decision to subjugate the southern island of Mindanao to Martial Law. Now, the state is using its repressive … Continue reading →

Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Colonialism & Conquest

Jaluar Mega Dam in the Philippines Threatens to Displace Indigenous Peoples

August 19, 2016 Deep Green Resistance News Service 1 Comment

Featured image: International Solidarity Mission delegates listen to testimonies by Tumandok men and women in Barangay Agcalaga, Calinog. Photo Credits: Jalaur River for the People Movement. By Karlo Mikhail Mongaya, GlobalVoices The Tumandok (Panay-Bukidnon) indigenous peoples of the central Philippine Island of Panay are facing the real possibility of being forced from their homes due to the construction of … Continue reading →

Colonialism & Conquest, Mining & Drilling, Protests & Symbolic Acts

Thousands March Against Killings of Indigenous Peoples in Philippine “Mining Capital”

December 21, 2015 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

By Hannibal Rhoades / Intercontinental Cry Last week, a 3,000 person-strong people’s caravan, or Lakbayan, formed on the island of Mindanao to protest the criminalization and murder of Indigenous Peoples and environmental defenders in the Philippines. Uniting Indigenous Peoples, peasants, workers, faith groups, teachers and youth, the caravan marched for three days and over a hundred … Continue reading →

The Solution: Resistance, Indigenous Autonomy

Territories of Life: A Free Video Toolkit for Indigenous Peoples About Land and Rights

October 7, 2015 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

By Intercontinental Cry Territories of Life is a video toolkit with a purpose. It’s aim: to bring stories of resistance, resilience and hope to indigenous communities on the frontline of the global rush for land. Produced by our friends at LifeMosaic, a non-profit based in Scotland, the Territories of Life toolkit consists of ten stories that … Continue reading →

Culture of Resistance, Mining & Drilling

Report-back: DGR Tour of the Philippines

April 13, 2014 Deep Green Resistance Great Basin Leave a comment

Earlier this year, DGR member Kim Hill of Australia traveled to the Philippines. DGR’s presence was requested by community organizers from an anarchist collective called the Mobile Anarchist School. Here is her report back: ‘NO TO MINING.’ Signs bearing these words are common on Marinduque. The signs are nailed to trees, on fences and … Continue reading →

Movement Building & Support

DGR Member Tours Philippines

April 8, 2014 Deep Green Resistance Blog Leave a comment

Kim Hill of Deep Green Resistance Australia toured the Philippines in February, with the Mobile Anarchist School. She spoke at universities, infoshops, a farmer’s forum and many other locations about the need for a serious resistance movement. You can read her blog of her Philippines tour, or listen to an interview of her by an … Continue reading →

Colonialism & Conquest, Defensive Violence, Property & Material Destruction, Mining & Drilling

Resistance forces in Philippines storm mining company, torch heavy equipment

April 6, 2014 Deep Green Resistance News Service 3 Comments

By Mindanao Examiner New People’s Army rebels on Saturday raided a mining firm in the southern Philippine province of Agusan del Norte, reports said. Reports said the rebels swooped down on Philippine Alstron Mining Company on the village of Tamamarkay in Tubay town and overpowered the security guards without firing a single shot before they … Continue reading →

Building Alternatives

Mobile Anarchist School provides mutual aid in response to hurricane in the Philippines

December 30, 2013 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

The following account comes to us from DGR allies based in the Philippines, who recently packed up supplies and traveled to the regions of their country hardest hit by Typhoon Haiyan (called Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines) to provide disaster relief and embody the spirit of mutual aid. You can learn more about their resistance … Continue reading →

Repression at Home

Assassinations of environmental activists have doubled over last decade

February 21, 2013 Deep Green Resistance News Service 2 Comments

By Fred Pearce / Yale Environment 360 Where is Sombath Somphone? With every day that passes, the fate of one of south-east Asia’s most high-profile environmental activists, who was snatched from the streets of Laos in December, becomes more worrisome. His case has been raised by the State Department and countless NGOs around the world. … Continue reading →

Mining & Drilling, Repression at Home

Philippine government taking blind eye to assassination of activists by paramilitaries

July 18, 2012 Deep Green Resistance News Service Leave a comment

By Human Rights Watch The Philippine government’s failure to address threats and killings of environmental advocates worsens a climate of lawlessness just as the Aquino administration is pushing for new mining investments. On July 2, 2012, President Benigno Aquino III signed Executive Order No. 79, which aims to institutionalize reforms in the Philippine mining sector … Continue reading →

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