Unearthing Resistance: Struggles of Subanen in the wake of extractive capitalism
FOR AS LONG AS ANYONE who came to Guinoman can recall, the hills of Balabag on the northern edge of the sleepy town of Bayog, Western Mindanao had been a peaceful forest of maple-leafed trees and bamboo. Certainly if one goes on foot, by bike, in a truck on the brow, the impression is that it takes you deep into the heartland of the peninsula. That Guinoman, like the meaning of its name is unlike any other place. Here the municipality seem to lose its central force. The netwo
Aid, trade and gold mines
*UfMJ is reposting this blog given the imminent decision of the World Bank in the Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim case in El Salvador. Originally posted on Jim's blog: Unwrapping Development “If you love your cattle more than you love your neighbour, you cannot say that you love God.” The line is from a song I heard this past February in a town in the northern part of the Cabañas department of El Salvador. I thought about gold. A proposal to re-open a gold mine sparked sharp oppositi
