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Fisherfolk, CSOs to raise the issue of DENR order to dismantle fisheries structures in Cavite in the Global People’s Summit on Food Systems

September 23, 2021 pamalakayaweb Image, News Release

While monopoly agro-corporations are lobbying at the United Nations for more corporate control over the global agriculture and food systems, here in the Philippines, the producing sector is facing the worse and more primitive issue of outright destruction of the community-based food system and displacement from livelihood, all in the name of neoliberal privatization of bay areas, for super-profits of real estate firms colluding with local and national bureaucrat capitalists.

Complete termination of the Sangley airport project pushed

February 1, 2021 pamalakayaweb News Release

PAMALAKAYA said they “welcome” the cancellation of the project, which would be funded by the China Construction & Communications Corporation (CCCC), a Chinese firm engaged in environmental destruction through large-scale reclamation in the South China Sea. Satellite images also showed that a subsidiary of CCCC dredging company operated most of its giant barges digging sand from the seabed and piling it on remote coral atolls in the Panganiban Reef, Zamora Reef, and Kagitingan Reef – all located in the Kalayaan Group of Islands in the West Philippine Sea.

Against The Stream – Bacoor by artists from SAKA

December 14, 2020 pamalakayaweb Image

Dubbed as “Against the Stream: a protest art exhibit for fisherfolk”, 12 visual artists created sail-shaped artworks depicting lives and struggle of Filipino fisherfolk; including Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea, reclamation of fishing grounds accompanied with demolition of fishing communities, and the fight against the fascist state.