PETITION

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Justice for Gloria Capitan!​

Stop Killing Climate Justice Activists!

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We condemn the killing of Gloria Capitan, Filipino woman leader-activist of KILUSAN, a member organization of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice. Ate Glo, as she is called by people close to her, was shot by motorcycle-riding gunmen last July 1. She was 57 years old, a mother and a grandmother.

 

Ate Glo was very active in the fight against coal and led in a series of mass actions and petitions calling for a permanent closure of a coal stockpile in their village. If this is an attempt to silence other anti-coal activists like her, then they are mistaken. On the ground where Ate Glo's body fell, where the blood from her body flowed, more anti-coal and climate justice activists will sprout.

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We are activists and movements from all corners of the world. Ate Glo’s sacrifice only further strengthens our solidarity and our conviction that this evil menace which is coal must end. We will persevere in this fight and see to it that our children and the children of our children will be free from coal.

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We join the clamor for the Philippine government to immediately launch a thorough investigation of her killing and bring the perpetrators to justice.

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Local Organization Signatories:

• Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ)

• Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)

• Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM)

• Freedom From Debt Coalition (FDC)

• Sanlakas

• Our Rivers Our Life Philippines (OROL)

• Gitib Mindinao

• Bukluran ng Manggawang Pilipino (BMP)

• Kongreso ng Maralitang Lungsod (KPML)

• Youth for Climate Justice Pilipinas (Y4CJ)

• Koalisyon Pabahay Pilipinas (KPP)

• Makabayan Pilipinas

• Kalayaan Pilipinas

• Green Convergence for Safe Food, Healthy Environment and Sustainable Economy

• Bishop Broderick Pabillo

• RECON Phils.

• FPE-Mindanao Regional Unit

• The Climate Reality Project Philippines

• Ecological Society of the Philippines

• Germelino M. Bautista

• Greenresearch

• PROMISI

• UNLAD

• SASFA

• Focus on the Global South

• Aniban ng Mangagawa sa Agrikultura (AMA)

• Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM)

• No Nukes Asia Forum

• Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK)

• FDC-Western Mindanao Region

• PALAG Mindanao

• PMCJ-Western Mindanao Chapter

• Sanlakas Misamis Occidental

• APL Youth-SENTRO

• Tambuyog Development Center

• Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PHILRIGHTS)

• Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED)

• Socsargen Cared

• World March of Women - Pilipinas and Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Asia Pacific (CATW-AP)

• Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO).

• NGO Forum on ADB.

• Greenpeace

• Bantay Kita

• Oceana Philippines

• Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)

• Environmental Legal Assistance Center, (ELAC)

• Health Care Without Harm

• Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan ( SPARK)

• ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, Inc.

• Alternative Law Group (ALG)

• Concerned Citizen of Sta. Cruz (CCoS)

• Ministry of Ecology of the Diocese of San Pablo (Laguna)

• SASFA (Salvacion, Leyte)

• The Climate Reality Project

• Ecological Society of the Philippines

• Environmental Legal Assistance Center, Inc. (ELAC)

• Social Action Center - Diocese of Dipolog

• Ang Aroroy Ay Alagaan, Inc.

• Marian Women Producers Cooperative, Aroroy, Masbate

• Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada

• Ministry of Ecology of the Diocese of San Pablo (Laguna)

• Haribon

• GCCM-Pilipinas

• Worl Wildlife Fund (WWF)

• Task Force Detainees of the Philippines.

• Woman Health Philippines

• KAISA-Nagkakaisang Iskolar para sa Pamantasan at Sambayanan (KAISA UP)

• Leaders of Excellence, Action and Development in College of Home Economics (LEAD-CHE)

• Student Action for Responsive Leadership in Tourism (START-AIT)

• BALAOD Mindanaw, Inc.

• Tanggol Kalikasan, Inc.

• Mother Earth Foundation, IDIS-Davao

• Bukold Tao, Inc.

International Organization Signatories

• National Hawker Federation

• Himalaya Niti Abhiyan

• Asia Pacific Forum of Women, Law and Development

• River Basin Friends, (NE) India

• Monitoring Sustainability of Globalization (MSN) Malaysia

• South East Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)

• Bolivian Platform on Climate Change

 

Individual Signatories

• Fr. Joel Tabora, S.J.

• Tess Tabada

• Msgr. Emmanuel Villareal, Our Lady of the Angels Parish, Atimonan, Quezon

• Fr. Edwin Gariguez, CBCP-NASSA

• Cong. Edgardo Masongsong

• Atty. Jennifer Ramos

• Bishop Broderick Pabillo

• Dr Germelino Bautista

• Prof. Ma. Aurora Teresita Tabada

• Emy Perez

• Fr. Pete Montallana of Save Sierra Madre Network Alliance

• Alfonso van Zijl, Multi-Sectoral Action Group (MSAG) of Aurora

• Bernardita Morcilla

• Joey Traussing

• Purificacion Gabrito

• Lucia Vausal

• Radney Bausal

• Lito Tiozon

• Marietta Ayuda

• Kat Leauch

• Elvira Estriber

• Cecille Echavez

• Editha Moquia

• Elizabeth Palana

• Raquilina Asumbrado

• Juana Magos

• Pablita Binasbas

• Diosdado Bausal

• Emerita Avila

• Elizabeth Olabide

• Benjamin Ayuda

• Rosbin Tacuboy

• Rufino Licyayo

• Myrna Duyan

• Rhodora Lagdaen

• Atty. Rolando Rebleza Recto

• Germelino M. Bautista