The Center for Environmental Concerns–Philippines (CEC) stands with fellow environmental advocates and the Filipino people in defending our natural resources and livelihoods against foreign control and corporate plunder. We stand with Indigenous Peoples in asserting their rights to ancestral lands and self-determination. We stand with farmers, fisherfolk, and communities in upholding our shared right to a balanced and healthful ecology.
The Center for Environmental Concerns - Philippines works to cultivate environmental awareness and action, create a community of advocates, and contribute to the defense of ecosystems and peoples through empowering education, community-based research, and people-oriented, patriotic, and scientific advocacy.
As of around 11:45 a.m. today, October 30, police forces are reportedly attempting to breach the residents’ barricade in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya. We strongly condemn this attempt to forcibly break a community’s defense of its land, environment, and livelihoods.
The Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) strongly condemns the issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against residents after the North Luzon Mineral Resources Corporation (NLMRC) and the Bugkalot Confederation filed a Writ of Preliminary Injunction complaint to dismantle the people’s anti-mining barricade in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya.
The legal harassment of anti-mining residents in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya continues. Today, September 24, the Municipal Trial Court of Kasibu and the Regional Trial Court of Bayombong issued separate warrants of arrest against Indigenous People anti-mining leaders Donny Dugay and Municipal Councilor Glenn Guingayan in cases involving cyberlibel and grave coercion.
Fifty-four years after the declaration of Martial Law under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the Philippines remains locked in a harrowing cycle of state fascism, ecological devastation, and subservience to foreign powers. Today, under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the Filipino people still struggle against the same tyrannical framework that plundered our natural resources and suppressed fundamental rights decades ago. The Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) firmly stands with the Filipino people in condemning the persistent human rights violations, environmental plunder, and the betrayal of national sovereignty perpetuated from one Marcos regime to the next.
In the face of these worsening environmental and socio-economic impacts, many among the Filipino people have offered their talents, efforts, time, and even their lives to defend the rights of the people and the country’s national patrimony. These heroes and heroines serve as an inspiration for the generations to come.
