2 MIN READBy ROD TAJON and KYLE EDWARD FRANCISCO VIGAN CITY — Times Employees Union (TEU) scores yet another victory as the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) sequestered four buses of the Dominion Bus Lines after...
Read More3 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...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy ACE ALEGRE BAGUIO CITY — The first time that a Baguio native lands in the Highest Court of the land and plants another feather on the cap of this mountain city. “Though young, but very qualified,” hailed Ibaloi...
Read More3 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...
Read More3 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan raised alarm over the continuing land conversions within...
Read More3 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Multisectoral groups and individuals gathered at the Peoples Park to join the rest of the Filipinos in a nationally coordinated protest action against the privatization of...
Read More4 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Students from various organizations and progressive youth groups commemorated the International Day of Impunity and the third year anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy DEFEND ILOCOS (PR) VIGAN CITY — Defend Ilocos Against Mining Plunder (Defend Ilocos) today called on government agencies to use all the means to ensure that the fishing ground and the coastal environments are...
Read More3 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Bontoc Mayor Pascual Sacgaca disagreed that his municipality is polluting the Chico River as the Kalinga Anti-Pollution Action Group (KAPAG) claimed in...
Read More< 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...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy BWHRA (PR) BONTOC, Mountain Province – In the continuing fight for the recognition of their rights, women’s groups here formed the Bontoc Women Human Rights Alliance (BWHRA) this November 17 at the Ridge Brook...
Read More4 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — National Nutrition Council (NNC) Region II head Rhodora Maestre challenged Baguio media to get involved in the nutrition campaign of the Cordillera region citing as example...
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Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net Is this new blood infused in the Supreme Court? He is the 172nd associate justice of the Supreme Court and one of the youngest ever appointed to the High Tribunal. And, he is a true blue Baguio boy,...
Read More< 1 MIN READwww.nordis.net Every year economists always predict a bleak Christmas. Any parent would know that the permanent reality in the country’s economic system is not a prediction so that under these circumstances it is...
Read More4 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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3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net (This 23rd November was the observance of the second...
Read More2 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...
Read More< 1 MIN READBY DONNA RABANG PETA CONVENOR, DEFEND ILOCOS FACT: Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Director Leo Jasareno confirmed through an article published in the Business Mirror yesterday that the Mines and Geosciences...
Read More2 MIN READBy INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY MISSION IN DEFENSE OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES FIGHTING IMPUNITY We, the members of the International Interfaith Solidarity Mission in Defense of Indigenous Communities Fighting...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “If I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, the Kingdom of God has come upon you.” — Matthew 12:28 First of four parts Beliefs in the Spirits Belief in spirits is very much...
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2 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO www.nordis.net Manok a nailuto iti Korean hot pepper paste wenno...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Criminal case filed against Indigenous people of Tabeo, Madaymen, Mankayan opposing the drilling operations of the Far Southeast Gold Resources Inc. (FSGRI) by Lepanto...
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY— Environment and indigenous peoples groups from Northern Luzon and other parts of the country met the 58th Mines and Safety Week celebrations with protests...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — “I do not know exactly what is happening in your country but it is in the interest of a progressive government to listen to all political parties, especially...
Read More3 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Progressive groups, residents of mining-affected communities in Benguet and students greeted the South Africa Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources Godfrey Oliphant with a...
Read More2 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY— Government statistical data show the mining industry has not contributed much to the economy. National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Cordillera Regional...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net MANKAYAN, Benguet — Folks were confused and angered again by what Save Mankayan Movement (SMM) Marlou Pablo called another attempt to maneuver the way of thinking of the people....
Read More2 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...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel a sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things...
Read More2 MIN READBy CPDF (PR) BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF) in a statement called the illegal arrest and detention of Grayson Naogsan, the eldest son of CPDF Spokesperson Simon “Ka Filiw” Naogsan an act...
Read More3 MIN READNi DONNA RABANG PETA www.nordis.net LAOAG CITY — Maysa a youth camp ti insayangkat dagiti kameng ti Youth of Iglesia Filipina Independiente (YIFI) Diocese of Laoag sadiay Lipay, Vintar, Ilocos Norte. Inatendaran daytoy...
Read More2 MIN READBy VINCE BORNEO QUEZON CITY — Partylist representative Teddy Casiño today called on the country’s public attorneys to continue widening their services to poor Filipino clients and suggested that the agency set its...
Read More2 MIN READBy MT. CLOUD BOOKSHOP (PR) BAGUIO CITY — On November 20, 2012 at 6:00 PM Marites Dañguilan Vitug, one of the Philippines’ most brilliant investigative journalists, will give an author’s talk on her latest book on the...
Read More2 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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Read More2 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net We were having our last class on Friday just past 9 AM when there was a strong quake. Without showing I was nervous, I told my 20 or so students in History to go out slowly, not to...
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4 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net The Baguio media was invited to a “Dialogue on...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Martin Luther King, Jr....
Read More4 MIN READBy IVAN LABAYNE CHAIRPERSON, CEGP-BB November 16, 2012 On Friday, three years would have passed since the bloody Maguindanao massacre and up to now, no prosecution of any viable suspect has been made. The search for...
Read More2 MIN READBY ELMER LABOG KILUSANG MAYO UNO November 16, 2012 Today, we mark the 8th year of the Hacienda Luisita massacre with a march to Malacañang. We are revolting because after eight years, justice has not been served over...
Read More5 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life — life in all its fullness.” — John 10:10 (Excerpts from the collective...
Read More3 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,...
Read More< 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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Read More2 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...
Read More3 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Representatives of Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) legal officer Atty. Delmar Cariño and Engr. Melchor Licoben reiterated that the electric cooperative cannot buy...
Read More2 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)...
Read More2 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...
Read More5 MIN READBy KYLE EDWARD FRANCISCO STA. CRUZ, Ilocos Sur – Nagkaykaysa ti nasurok 50 a mannalon ti tabako a nakapauneg iti contract growing manipud iti tallo a probinsya iti Ilocos a mangkiddaw ken mangilaban para iti...
Read More3 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...
Read More3 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan announced that the celebration of the 112th founding anniversary will not only focus on promoting the local products and tourism of...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivocs) is watching three active fault lines in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) given the recent...
Read More2 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...
Read More3 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...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net From the western shores of Aparri to the Gulf of Lingayen are peoples’ organizations that are uniting basically around the need to defend their home towns against mining plunder… lest they be...
Read More3 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net One of the hottest discussion issues today here in the Cordillerea is on the environment specially involving the mine spill at the Philex Tailings Pond 3,. Why not? The spill is...
Read More2 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net And it also become clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world – a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be...
Read More2 MIN READBy SATUR C. OCAMPO PRESIDENT, MAKABAYAN Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) officially enters the electoral arena — after clinching the Commission on Elections’ accreditation January this year — by...
Read More2 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.” — Psalms 22:1 Responses to questions of Cathryn Taylor of Australia Last...
Read More2 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...
Read More8 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...
Read More5 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL and DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net MANKAYAN, Benguet — The indigenous People (IP) of this mining town walked out of the Far Southeast Gold Resources Incorporated (FSGRI) sponsored municipal wide...
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Various concerned groups assailed concerned government agencies for failure to conduct immediate comprehensive environmental and social impact assessment of the...
Read More3 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...
Read More< 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...
Read More3 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...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Candidates who filed under the Liberal Party – Nationalist People’s Coalition (LP-NPC) vowed to come up with a packaged and substantially comprehensive program to...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Opereytors Nationwide-Cordillera (PISTON-Cordillera) President Carlito Wayas said the first nominee of the transport Party List...
Read More2 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...
Read More5 MIN READBy CHRA (PR) BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) salutes the families and relatives of members of the New People’s Army (NPA) who were killed in Tineg for demanding the government to truly respect...
Read More2 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...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — “Addressing the traffic woes of Baguio City requires cooperation and concerted efforts of all concerned government agencies and the public as well.” Baguio...
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Read More3 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...
Read More4 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net After the Bakun people collectively stopped the planned large scale mining in their ancestral domain, the people of Madaymen, Mankayan are in the height of their opposition to large...
Read More3 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net Once more global warming has sent us a grim urgent warning. The ferocity, wideness and depth of destruction wrought by Typhoon Sandy on the Atlantic coast especially on mighty...
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3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net Ever since corporate mining in Benguet has been...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net During a so-called consultative assembly at a mining town in the province of Benguet, the venue was jampacked with community folk. They were told that the event is so important as this...
Read More2 MIN READBY BEVERLY LONGID KATRIBU PARTYLIST KATRIBU Indigenous Peoples’ Partylist condemns the ambush of another anti-mining activist and environmentalist in Surigao del Sur, Mindanao. We call on indigenous peoples, ancestral...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.” — Psalms 22:1 Responses to questions of Cathryn Taylor of Australia Fifth...
Read More3 MIN READNi DONNA RABANG PETA www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Gagangay a mangngeg tayo ti pagsasao a “Kabataan ang Pag-asa ng Bayan!” Ngem ania kadi ti kaipapanan na daytoy? Ania dagiti banag ken pakakitaan kadagiti agtutubo wenno...
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