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May 17, 2012

Thank you for your support and solidarity to the successful week of people's protest and celebration of indigenous peoples' struggles, during the Cordillera Day 2012 activities in Apayao, Benguet, Abra, Mountain Province, Kalinga, Ifugao and the City of Baguio from April 22-29, 2012

VIDEOS:

CORDILLERA DAY 2012 Video Links:

ALDAW KORDILYERA, A People's Struggles (Cordillera Day Celebrations from 1985 to 1998)

SABIDONG TI BALITOK (TOXIC GOLD)

Produced by the Tan-aw Multimedia Collective, Health Action Information Network (HAIN), the Save the Abra River Movement (STARM), Montañosa Relief and Rehabilitation Services (MRRS), and Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Toxic Gold presents the effects and impacts of Lepanto Consolidated Mining Corporation’s bulk mining operations to the Abra River and the indigenous and peasant communities by the river. Apart from the environmental, social and agricultural impacts, the documentary presents the plight of Lepanto’s underground mine workers.

AGNO

Produced by the Cordillera Peoples Alliance and Southern Tagalog Exposure in 2002, The documentary delves on the importance of the Agno River to the people of Itogon, Benguet and Pangasinan and how the San Roque Dam Project will take away the right to land and livelihood of the people. The people’s struggle against the government flagship project rages despite the impoundment of water in the dam. (See related campaigns on large dams on Campaigns page.)

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TAXI FILIPPINO

Produced by TV Oost in Belgium, Taxi Filippino is the story of a roadtrip through the Cordillera, a mountain region in the North of the Philippines. From the summer capital Baguio to the province of Kalinga, the taxi passes by slums, schools and mining companies, mountain villages and military camps. Corruption is everywhere. More than a thousand people were the victim of political assassination under the regime of president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Hundreds of others disappeared. And still the Filipino's have the courage to go on.

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	[UNPFII Eleventh Session] CPA Intervention on Agenda Item 4: Human Rights
	[UNPFII Eleventh Session] CPA Intervention on Agenda Item 3: "Doctrine of Discovery: Its enduring impact on indigenous peoples and the right to redress for past conquests"
	Cordillera Peoples Alliance-Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera Position Paper on REDD+: Presented during the Color it REDD-Plus Philippine Roadshow on REDD+ and the PNRPS
	Cordillera Day 2012 Baguio Celebration: The Baguio People's Declaration
	Cordillera Day 2012 Central Statement: Fight for Our Land, Life and Rights!
	CPA Presentation to IGO 2012: Perspective on Cordillera Development and Regional Autonomy by Benedict Solang
	CPA Statement: Stop Large Mining and Pullout Military Troops in IP Communities!
	CPA Participates in 9th Igorot International Consultation
	Cordillera Elders Alliance (CEA) Holds Second Regional Congress
	CPA Organizes Cordillera Day 2012 (28th Cordillera Day)
	CPA Statement: An Appeal and a Challenge to Class Bagwis 2012 of the Philippine Military Academy
	Statement of the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) to Class Bagwis 2012 of the Philippine Military Academy
	Statement of Anakbayan Kalinga on the Tuition Fee Increase at the Kalinga Apayao State College (KASC)
	Statement of CWEARC on its 25th Anniversary
	Statement of the Tongtongan ti Umili-Cordillera Peoples Alliance on the Expansion of Shoe Mart Development Corporation (SMDC) in Baguio City
	NORTHERN LUZON MINING AND HUMAN RIGHTS SUMMIT: Northern Luzon Situation on Mining, Human Rights and Disaster Impacts (Presented by the RDC KADUAMI)
	NORTHERN LUZON MINING AND HUMAN RIGHTS SUMMIT:People's Development and the Occupy Wall Street Movement (Presented by the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera or CDPC)
	NORTHERN LUZON MINING AND HUMAN RIGHTS SUMMIT: National Industrialization as a Framework for an Alternative Mining Program in the Philippines (Presented by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan or BAYAN)
	BAYAN MUNA HOUSE RESOLUTION 2016 EXPRESSING PROFOUND CONDOLENCES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON THE DEMISE OF WILLIAM "BILLY" FUNA-AY CLAVER
	TRIBUTE TO ATTY. WILLIAM 'BILLY' CLAVER: Joint Statement of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance and Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera
	TRIBUTE TO ATTY. WILLIAM 'BILLY' CLAVER: During the Book Launching of William 'Billy' F. Claver: Selected Speeches and Statements
	ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS ON MINING IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION
	FIRST NORTHERN LUZON MINING AND HUMAN RIGHTS SUMMIT OPENS WITH RALLYING CALLS FOR ENV'L DEFENSE, HOUSE BILL 4315
	ANNOUNCEMENT ON SINE KARBENGAN
	CONGRESSMEN'S TALK, LAUNCH OF VIDEO ON OFFSHORE MINING AT THE NORTHERN LUZON MINING AND HR SUMMIT
	UNITY STATEMENT FROM THE ILOCOS MINING SUMMIT:DEFEND ILOCOS AGAINST MINING PLUNDER
	PRESS RELEASE: ILOCOS PEOPLE'S MINING SUMMIT
	FIRST NORTHERN LUZON MINING AND HUMAN RIGHTS SUMMIT SLATED
	RESULTS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BAMPIS (BENGUET-ABRA-MOUNTAIN-PROVINCE-ILOCOS SUR) MINING SUMMIT
	BAMPIS (BENGUET-ABRA-MOUNTAIN-PROVINCE-ILOCOS SUR) STATEMENT
	KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF MAYOR JEREMY JESUS BUENO (SANTA, ILOCOS SUR) ON THE OCCASION OF THE BAMPIS MINING SUMMIT
	CPA PRESS RELEASE: BAMPIS MINING SUMMIT TO DISCUSS, ACT ON MINING SITUATION
	MINEWORKERS, MINING-RAVAGED COMMUNITIES EXPOSE MYTH OF SAFE, RESPONSIBLE MINING
	TRIBUTE TO JEAN MACLI-ING: A PIONEER IN ACTIVIST NGO DEVELOPMENT WORK
	ON GENUINE REGIONAL AUTONOMY: PRESENTATION BY THE CORDILLERA PEOPLES ALLIANCE DURING THE ACADEMIC FORUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS
	CPA STATEMENT ON THE THIRD ATTEMPT AT REGIONAL AUTONOMY
	*More Updates*

Cordillera Day 2012: A successful week of protest for land, life and honor and in celebration of Cordillera peoples' struggles held in the provinces of Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Mountain Province and Kalinga, and in Baguio City from April 20-29, 2012, with a regional celebration in Mankayan, Benguet on April 27. Photos by Cordillera Peoples Alliance and NORDIS.

Forum on Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries organized by the Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact and AMAN Indonesia on May 7, 2012 during the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, USA. Photos courtesy of Binota Moy Dhamai, AIPP

The Cordillera Elders Alliance (CEA) held its second regional congress in Basao, Tinglayan, Kalinga from March 18-19, 2012. It was hosted locally by the Timpuyog dagiti Mannalon ti Basao (TIMBA).

Northern Luzon communities affected and threatened by large mining trooped to Makati on February 29 to protest the application and operations of local and transnational mining companies. Under the banner of Amianan Salakniban, Cordillera Peoples Alliance actively participated in the day-long string of protests.

Over 400 community representatives from the Ilocos, Cagayan Valley and Cordillera regions, including some parts of Central Luzon actively participated in the successful first Northern Luzon Mining and Human Rights Summit hosted by the CPA in Baguio from Dec 12-15, 2011. Important highlights include the formation of Amianan Salakniban Network for the Environment, the reef-to-ridge action plan and Amianan Salakniban Declaration, the launching of RDC Kaduami's offshore mining video documentary,launching of the book William 'Billy' Funa-ay Claver: Selected Speeches and Statements.

Surface James Balao

CPA Founding Member and Oclupan Clan Association President James M. Balao, 47 years old. Abducted by military intelligence and security units at Lower Tomay, La Trinidad, Benguet on September 17, 2008. Respond to our ACTION ALERT.