The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) is an independent federation of progressive peoples organizations, most of them grassroots-based organizations among indigenous communities in the Cordillera Region, Philippines. CPA is committed to the promotion and defense of indigenous peoples? rights, human rights, social justice, and national freedom and democracy.

CPA is a non-stock, non-profit mass-organization duly registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission.

CPA was founded in June 1984 in Bontoc, Mountain Province, by 150 delegates from 27 organizations attending the Cordillera People?s Congress. The founders of CPA were mainly indigenous leaders and activists who spearheaded the widespread and successful opposition to the World Bank-funded Chico dams project and the commercial logging operations of the Cellophil Resources Corporation.

This was during the Marcos dictatorship period, when the government and its corporate partners pursued destructive projec...

Cordillera Day 2007
 
General Invitation and Theme




The Cordillera Peoples Alliance announces the 23rd Celebration of Cordillera Day 2007, in Baguio City from April 23-24, 2007, under the theme "Assert people's rights! Oust the GMA Regime and Advance the Politics of Change!"
 
Interested organizations and individuals may contact the CPA Secretariat through cpa@cpaphils.org (www.cpaphils.org)
 
We hope to hear from you and see you in Baguio City!

3rd Part of Exhibit Series on Political Killings Slated at UP

References: Karen Ocampo Flores, TutoK Project Director (09189002682)
Mideo M. Cruz, Perspektiba Lead Curator (09278818515)


The third part of Perspektiba, a series of exhibits on political killings by the artists? group Tutok Karapatan (TutoK), has been scheduled for Feb. 20-March 8, 2007 at the Faculty Center Galleries and Hardin ng mga Diwata, University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City.

TutoK had wrapped up early December its successful exhibit on the same theme, dubbed Perspektiba 1, at the Beato Angelico Gallery of the University of Santo Tomas. Persektiba 2, meanwhile, ran Jan. 9-23 at the Amrhein Gallery, St. Scholastica?s College.

Perspektiba 3 will open at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 20. The opening will be held simultaneously with a launch of the national catalogue of SUNGDU-AN 3: Making The Local, a project of the National Commission for Culture an...

Tolerance
First posted 01:46:00 (Mla time) February 10, 2007 Vida Soraya Verzosa Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines --
?Khadaffy Janjalani is hot!?
That was what a former classmate said after seeing his photograph in the Inquirer, back when we were 18 years old. Later, she joined the New People?s Army and disappeared in one of the provinces near the University of the Philippines in Los Baños.
With news reports confirming Janjalani?s death after DNA testing, I wonder how that old classmate of mine reacted when she learned that he had taken a bullet in his neck during his Fajr (Dawn Prayer). Several times in the past, we would closely scrutinize the ubiquitous poster of Most Wanted Terrorists at the Metro Rail Transit station and she would sigh that so much violence in this world resulted from lack of religious tolerance and respect for cultural differences. But for hose who ended up on the ?wrong? end of the religio-political spectrum as defined by the al-Harakatul al-Islamiyyah, or...