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Month: November 2012

Indignant I-Aplai rally for justice

3 MIN READBy NORTHERN DISPATCH SAGADA, Mountain Province – Justice for Elmo Panoyo! Peace for Sagada! Called out numerous placards in an indignation march of some 500 citizens of Sagada and Besao this November 21st who gathered...

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Mankayan IPs want NCIP officer out

3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The indigenous peoples of Mankayan or the Teeng (natives) di Mankayan petitioned National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Chairperson Brigida Zenaida H. Pawid for...

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Benguets renew oath to defend heritage

3 MIN READBy LADWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Members of the Kabenguetan, Ilaban ti Daga, Biag ken Kinabaknang (Kaiabang) renew their commitment to defend their heritage from destructive mining, dams and other acts...

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Who asked for wind farm?

4 MIN READBy GWEN GAONGEN SAGADA — “Who asked for the wind farm? We did not!” says an elder from Fidelisan referring to Philcarbons’ Sagada-Besao Wind Energy project. This and many more questions were raised by 40...

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IP ritual seeks justice for EJK victims

3 MIN READBy KATRIBU (PR) QUEZON CITY — On the international Day to End Impunity, indigenous peoples performed a “tuyada”, an indigenous ritual, in front of President Aquino’s residence in Times Street here in protest and to...

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Kaiabang elects officers

< 1 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY – A new set of officers of the Kabenguetan, Ilaban ti daga, Biag ken Kinabaknang-Cordillera Peoples Alliance Benguet (Kaiabang-CPA) took oath of office before Benguet...

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MP Youth Alliance holds 8th Congress

4 MIN READBy LEXVIN COS-AGON BONTOC, Mountain Province — Mountain Province Youth Alliance – Anakbayan (MPYA-AB) gathered on November 10 and 11 at the Bontoc Multi-Pupose Hall and Nursing Arts Room, Mountain Province State...

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Crossroads: Milestones on a Monday

4 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net A foggy brain and tired muscles prevented me from writing a column last week. Mines Unsafety Week tests our physical capacities to bring the protest of the people to the streets so...

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Labor Watch: Unemployed growing

2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “From a government that merely conjures economic growth statistics that our people know to be unreal to a government that prioritizes job that empower people and provide them with...

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Increase in tax steps up gold smuggling

2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD — Gold trading in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) decreased tremendously due to gold smuggling to China via Hongkong, allegedly by small scale miners. According to...

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Envi groups heighten protest vs Philex

2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The “environmental crimes” as progressive and environment groups put it, of Philex Mining Corporation is gaining wider and growing protests nationwide. The...

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Open space joins mines unsafety week

2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Open Space joined progressive groups in condemning the adverse effect of mining to the environment and livelihood of people in the Cordillera Administrative Region through a...

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Editorial: Consensus

2 MIN READwww.nordis.net Consensus building is the closest English description for the traditional “Tongtong”. In the history of the Ibaloi of Benguet long before the colonizers arrived, the Tongtong was what they called the...

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Leonard: A tribute

3 MIN READBy LINGLING MARANAN-CLAVER It was on a drizzly, May afternoon in the early 80s that I first saw Leonard. I was biding my time at the UP Baguio lobby, waiting for a symposium to start when a lanky man, in kung fu shoes,...

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Tula: Tala sa Hilaga

< 1 MIN READNi LEONARD CO (DEC. 1982) Kapag nakalatag ang lambong ng dilim Saan mang lupalop ang iyong marating Sa dakong hilaga’y mangyaring hanapin Isang munting talang nagluluningning. Maningning na talang parola’t gabay...

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Mankayan FPIC canceled anew

2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net MANKAYAN, Benguet — The free prior and informed consent (FPIC) consultation led by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples for the conversion of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining...

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MGB inutile vs illegal mining

3 MIN READBy KYLE EDWARD FRANCISCO VIGAN CITY, Ilcos Sur —Defend Ilocos Against Mining Plunder (DEFEND Ilocos) assailed the inaction of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) against illegal sand and gravel (ISAG) and mineral...

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TEU long march ends at NLRC

2 MIN READBy KYLE EDWARD FRANCISCO QUEZON CITY — Times Employees Union (TEU) culminated their 400 km march-caravan in a picket and a program in front of the National Labor Relations Commission-National Capital Region (NLRC-NCR)...

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Murdered LU lawyer laid to rest

2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — From the Church mass 1,500 to 2,000 people brought the murdered lawyer Lazaro Gayo to rest at the Tubao cemetery in La Union on Thursday. As relatives and residents...

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Kalinga holds 6th peasant congress

3 MIN READBy JOHNNY T. SAWADAN www.nordis.net TABUK CITY, Kalinga — In celebration of the peasant month, the Timpuyog dagiti Mannalon ti Kalinga (TMK), a federation of farmer’s organizations in the province successfully held its...

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Cops nab son of CPDF spokesperson

3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Grayson Naogsan, the eldest son of Cordillera Peoples Democratic Front (CPDF) spokesperson Simon “Ka Filiw” Naogsan Sr., is detained at Bureau of Jail Management and...

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Unemployment increases in Cordillera

2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — According to the reports of the National Statistics Office (NSO) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) during the closing ceremonies of the 23rd National...

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BCDA cleared of libel

3 MIN READBy ACE ALEGRE BAGUIO CITY — Directors of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and editors of a national daily have been cleared of the libel charges filed by Camp John Hay Development Corporation...

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Crossroads: Grassroots newspapers

2 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net This November Northern Dispatch Weekly celebrates its 29th year as a grassroots newspaper for Northern Luzon. It is no mean feat considering you have to compete with giants in the...

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Youthspeak: Lesson learned

2 MIN READBy VALERIE TAGUBA I used to think that everything I do and say is the truth, the real deal, the total package. But what I did not account for was meeting the person who was way better than me, more powerful, more...

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Workers walk 400 km for justice

8 MIN READBy KYLE EDWARD FRANCISCO VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur — Times Employees Union (TEU), an affiliate of the National Federation of Labor Unions-Kilusang Mayo Uno (NAFLU-KMU), commenced its 400 kilometer march-caravan from here...

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Mine spill kills Balog Creek

3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Balog Creek is dead. This was among the initial findings of the environmental and social investigatory mission (EIM) conducted last October 26 to 28 that...

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Lone assassin shoots Sagada driver

< 1 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Policemen are hunting a lone assassin who mercilessly shot dead a driver from Sagada on October 30. On reports emailed to Nordis, the assassin allegedly hired the...

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Sparkling the politics of change

3 MIN READBy KATRIBU YOUTH (PR) BAGUIO CITY – Almost 200 youth and students gathered at Bulwagang Juan Luna-UP Baguio last October 27 to celebrate the Tribal Filipino Week and National Indigenous Peoples’ Month. The celebration...

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Benguet mayor faces 2nd Ombudsman case

2 MIN READBy ACE ALEGRE La Trinidad, Benguet — For not giving in to a P250 million mall project in this Benguet capital town, La Trinidad Mayor Gregorio Abalos is facing a second ombudsman case. Even suspecting that the grave...

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CPLA renamed to CFPD

2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet—“We will be using Cordillera Forum for Peace and Development (CFPD) in our (future) dealings with the government,” said Arsenio Humiding, chair of the...

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Editorial: Awarding themselves

3 MIN READwww.nordis.net October 29, the day the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act or R.A. 8371 was signed into law in 1997 by then President Fidel V. Ramos. Its celebration this year is marked by a posthumous award to the late...

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