{"id":3959,"date":"2022-02-28T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csspsinag.wordpress.com\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T09:55:26","slug":"unknown-gunman-shoots-anti-kaliwa-dam-mayor-in-quezon-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/2022\/02\/28\/unknown-gunman-shoots-anti-kaliwa-dam-mayor-in-quezon-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown gunman shoots Anti-Kaliwa Dam Mayor in Quezon Province"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>America has consistently advocated against the construction of the Kaliwa Dam, a\u00a0 Chinese-funded 10.37 billion peso project supported by the Duterte Administration. She objected to the project because of its potentially devastating impact on local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n<!--noteaser-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-11.png?w=559\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3962\" width=\"114\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Infanta Mayor Filipina Grace America, a staunch opponent of the Kaliwa Dam construction in Quezon, was shot by an unidentified gunman last February 27, Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mayor was coming home from Church when the gunman opened fire on her and her driver at around 11:15 am. The report said that the gunman had \u201cintent to kill,\u201d but she survived the attempt and was rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America has consistently advocated against the construction of the Kaliwa Dam, a&nbsp; Chinese-funded 10.37 billion peso project supported by the Duterte Administration. She objected to the project because of its potentially devastating impact on local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the dam promises to solve Manila\u2019s water shortage, many groups have said that it would do more harm than good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Save Sierra Madre Network, for example, said that the dam would destroy the area\u2019s biodiversity and would eliminate almost 10,000 of forest cover, exposing the area to extreme flooding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their 2019 opinion article for Manila Bulletin, Charissa Luci-Atienza and Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat also reported that the dam would submerge about 12,000 hectares of the forest ecosystems in Sierra Madre, endangering many species on the brink of extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dam also endangers the lives and livelihoods of the local Dumagat tribe, which has claim to the land where the Dam is being constructed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a right to our ancestral domains. But instead of protecting our rights, the president and the government are the first to violate them,\u201d said Henry Borreo, one of the leaders of a Pigtaanan ni Dumaget Remontado di General Nakar Quezon, a local Dumagat organization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last January 2022, despite these issues, the Manila Water Sewage System (MWSS) and the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) railroaded the signing of the project\u2019s Memorandum of Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local government leaders like America have stood firm against the MWSS and NCIP officials pushing for the project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indigenous People\u2019s rights group Katribu Youth called the shooting as another attack on an environmental defender and the indigenous people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAng atake sa mga tagapagtaguyod ng karapatan ng mga katutubo ay atake rin sa kalikasan na ating inaalagaan at pinaka-iingat-ingatan,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past weeks, various human rights defenders and indigenous people\u2019s advocates like America were also attacked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natividad Castro, a doctor serving the Lumad communities in CARAGA, was taken into custody on February 18 after she was accused of being a member of the New People\u2019s Army.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 24, government soldiers gunned down five individuals in New Bataan, Davao de Oro. This included Chad Booc and Gelejurain Nguho II, volunteer teachers in a local lumad school. Meanwhile, last February 21, Kevin &#8220;Ka Facio&#8221; Castro was gunned down by state elements in Polilio, Quezon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castro is a volunteer teacher for remote areas in Quezon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>READ: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3ti2SvF\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3ti2SvF<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Various human rights groups have rallied behind the call to #StopTheAttacks and bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of RMN Networks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-9.png?w=73\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3926\" width=\"67\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has consistently advocated against the construction of the Kaliwa Dam, a\u00a0 Chinese-funded 10.37 billion peso project supported by the Duterte Administration. 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