GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Dina Gracia feels blessed.
With her husband, this 28-year-old mother of two from the town of Wao, Lanao del Sur, has planted 400 rubber tree seedlings on land they now have a legal right to farm ? and every motivation to protect it from abuse.
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Panalipdan! Mindanao, a network of church and sectoral organizations and NGOs, issued a statement in support of the outburst of community resistance taking place in Tampakan, South Cotabato this week. The current community actions center on the refusal of the company to regularize more than two hundred of its workers despite its obligation under Philippine Labor Code.
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Environmentalists are yet again scaling up Mt. Tipolog, known as the country?s lost volcano found in Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District, as their way of celebrating the generosity of the mountain to the residents of the area especially to the lumad (indigenous peoples).
This is in time for the celebration of October as the Indigenous People?s Month.
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Although blessed with abundant and clean water, Davao's residents should be prepared for the possibility that their city will suffer from inadequate supply, knowing how the watersheds of the city are slowly being encroached into by plantations that use environmentally hazardous chemicals.