More than 500 residents of Provident Villages in Marikina have signed a petition opposing a plan to cut down 21 decades-old trees to make way for a proposed bridge project.
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These posts opposing mining in Sibuyan Island are gaining traction on Facebook. Please help boost and spread them too! #SaveSibuyan@WinGatchalian74@stgatchalian@Idolraffyishere
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Itβs official: the United States is imposing an additional 12.5-percent tariff on Philippine exports after President Donald Trump approved penalties on trading partners that Washington said failed to adopt adequate safeguards against goods made with forced labor.
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@DENROfficial, Sibuyanons are against the mining practices in their area.
Senators @IdolRaffyTulfo@WinGatchalian74@stgatchalian, I hope their voices reach you. Investigating in aid of legislation will help amplify their pleas.
Let's protect everyone and everything we've got.
sa labas mismo ng bahay ni IP Rep. Tamayo, Sibuyanons are LOUDLY condemning those who betrayed themβββ
βMGA HUDASβ βTRAIDOR NG BAYANβ βTAKSIL NG KALIKASANβ -- these are written in their tarps, let's not make them feel alone in this fight!
#SaveSibuyan#NotoMininginSibuyan
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Akbayan Party evaluates every major investment according to a consistent set of democratic, developmental, labor, environmental, and sovereignty principles. Investments should strengthen Philippine sovereignty, uphold ecological integrity, create decent work, develop domestic technological capabilities, respect workers' rights, promote peace, deepen democratic institutions, and contribute to a resilient and inclusive economy. Projects that advance these objectives deserve support. Those that undermine them should be opposed regardless whether they come from the United States, China, or anywhere else.
The Philippines should welcome investments that expand our industrial base, accelerate innovation, and enable Filipino workers and enterprises to move into higher-value industries. But investment alone does not constitute development. Foreign investments must generate meaningful technology transfer, quality employment, skills development, fair labor standards, responsible environmental stewardship, and opportunities for Filipino firms while avoiding one-sided economic dependency, excessive market concentration, and undue foreign influence over strategic sectors.
Akbayan therefore calls on Congress to conduct a comprehensive inquiry in aid of legislation to determine whether Pax Silica genuinely advances our national interest. The inquiry should examine its economic, technological, labor, environmental, national security, cybersecurity, and data governance implications; the transparency of its negotiations and incentives; its ownership structure and regulatory compliance; and the adequacy of safeguards against monopoly, undue foreign influence, and risks to critical infrastructure. It should likewise ensure full protection of workers' rights, including freedom of association and collective bargaining, and affirm that Philippine law shall govern, with all disputes falling exclusively within the jurisdiction of Philippine quasi-judicial bodies and courts.
The inquiry should also determine whether the projectβs planned hyperscale data centers and supporting infrastructure will place unsustainable demands on our countryβs electricity and water resources, contribute to the conversion of productive agricultural land, or impose unacceptable social and environmental costs on the host communities of Capas and Bamban. Congress must hear directly from local governments, workers, trade unions, farmers, indigenous people where applicable, environmental experts, civil society, and industry stakeholders before any long-term commitments are made.
Beyond this, public discussion on Pax Silica should become an opportunity for our country to push for a coherent industrial strategy that identifies the industries it seeks to build, the technologies it intends to develop, and the quality jobs it aims to create so that major investments reinforce a long-term national development agenda rather than define it.
For Akbayan, the issue has never been whether foreign investments come from the East or the West. The real question is whether it serves the Filipino people. Innovation must strengthen Philippine sovereignty, create shared prosperity, and advance a technologically capable, economically resilient, democratically governed, and socially just nation.
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@goldimissy16 Hello po. If that's the case po, sana maipaabot sa kanya yung hiling ng mga tao na magconduct yung senado ng investigation in aid of legislation to review the existing laws about the issue. Kawawa po kasi yung mga tao and the environment itself. Salamat po
y'all keep using "more jobs" as a lame excuse, but all that does is show how incompetent you are if the only way you can create jobs is by trading away the country's natural resources. besides, what good are those "jobs" if ppl end up losing access to something as basic as clean drinking water?
i was in awe sa buong episode. sa part na ito, mas naiyak na ako sa sagot niya. SenRi, you woman of integrity and great values. napahanga pa rin talaga ako
may universe protect you everyday at all costβ¨π
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Some treasures of Sibuyan that are worth protecting. Tama na ang pagmimina, hindi need ng SIBUYAN pagmimina in exchange na mawala ganito kagandang nga natural resources nila. NO TO MINING. Doesnβt mean na Iβm still in this fandom I wont held you accountable. Pede ko gawin both!β¨
@stgatchalian@WinGatchalian74
Kung isolated cases sana yung may ayaw e. Kaso hindi. Majority of the people oppose; they do for a reason. The least you can do for them as public servants is to listen and evaluate the importance of their voices.
Ang hirap kapag hindi naman kayo kakampi.
With this issue, together with mining and other environmental issues, hindi ko maiwasang isipin na ayaw talagang makinig ng gobyerno sa tao kapag kontra ang mga ito sa ginagawa nila.
In such situations, is there really no reanalysis?
Mamayang 9 AM, may scheduled power interruption sa amin. Kung may sapat na resources pala para sa Pax Silica, bakit para sa mga mamamayan, wala?
#NoToPaxSilica
our country is literally crying for help. may scheduled power interruption, yung heat index yearly tumataas, sobrang init, yung mga tubig din ang bilis nauubos dahil nga sa sobrang init, ang bilis ding bumaha, AND our farmers are super underpaid. GISING NA. #NoToPaxSilica
@ellamimasamayor@goldimissy16 Let's keep track of the issue. That's really the least we could do for the Sibuyan Islandβ to not let the issue die down :>