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BAN AERIAL SPRAYING OF PESTICIDES

BAN AERIAL SPRAYING OF PESTICIDES OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO: We unite with the rural poor communities in Mindanao and the Mamamayan Ayaw sa Aerial Spraying (MAAS) from Davao City, Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, and Compostela Valley in calling for an end to aerial spraying of agrochemicals in banana plantations. Aerial […]

Alternative Law Rocks

Alternative Law Rocks Members of SALIGAN (Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal) are not your standard-issue lawyers. Doing developmental legal work for women, workers, farmers and fishers, and the urban poor, each one is an atypical attorney as an article on the September 2007 issue of Men’s Health Philippines puts it. By defying the norm in […]

ALG 20-20 Moving On With A Clear Vision

(Keynote Speech of Commission on Human Rights Chairperson Leila de Lima) COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS On the Occasion of the Alternative Law Groups 20th Anniversary Forum Plaza Ibarra, Quezon City 10 December 2009 delivered by LEILA M. DE LIMA Chairperson, Commission on Human Rights KEYNOTE SPEECH Good evening. On a morning twenty years ago today, […]

A Needless Wait

A Needless Wait The farmers of Hacienda Velez-Malaga are still in the fight for their future The Decquios, like most farmers in the country, are used to waiting. Mario, 39 and wife Linde, 48 have been waiting for the court to junk former landlord Roberto Cuenca’s appeal against distributing the rest of Hacienda Velez-Malaga to […]

ALG Success Story

ONE STEP BEYOND by Michael Vincent Gaddi Salvador Santos is a simple coconut farmer from Padre Burgos, Quezon who lived peacefully with his family and harvested coconuts from several trees he had planted. Just as he had grown accustomed to this worry-free life, trouble struck. Sometime in 1997 the land owner suddenly filed a barrage […]