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by Marivic A. Wance Last November 4, 2024, the Municipal Local Government Unit (MLGU) of Kibungan Benguet sponsored the tree-caring activity through the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) that organized and funded it and the Municipal Environment and…

Having been mostly silent about American imperialism and the havoc that it wreaks, mainstream Western commentators were suddenly very vocal about the American election. They all voiced their opinions and made their predictions. Geopolitical knowledge, on the other hand, was…

Just days after Donald Trump won a landslide victory in the US presidential election, Ambassador Humayun Kabir, a credible commentator on foreign affairs, said in an interview with an independent newspaper Prothom Alo that the bilateral relationship with Bangladesh and…

As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the very industries destroying our climate, are flying to COP, the annual U.N. climate summit hosted by…

By Karl Matthieu Rillera and Genevieve B. Kupang Embracing Cultural Exchange: A Journey to Nami Island and Gapyeong Rail Bike Park On September 22, 2024, a group of administrators from Baguio Central University set out on an unforgettable exploration of…

David Swanson accepting the first annual Real Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by the Lay Down Your Arms Foundation. It’s wonderful to be here with many of you whose work I’ve known but whom I’ve rarely if ever been with in…

Pledges-heightened Campaign to Protect Water Bodies   The Philippine-Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) is extremely worried about the recent coal barge accident in Zambales that devastated a crucial fish sanctuary alongside the catastrophic coal spill in Sorsogon. The MV Katapatan 2,…

  We are the thread that binds that mends wounds, making bodies stronger with kind, beautiful souls.   We nurture and develop limbs that protects and soothes, that opens and extends without limit or measure.   We touch and enter…

Group Stresses Urgency to Enforce the Ban to Protect Human Health and the Environment 10 November 2024, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition pressed duty-bearers, government regulatory agencies in particular, to enforce the oft-violated ban on mercury use in cosmetics such…

Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything, except for a free reign to the almighty market. Price…