Today, January 23, hundreds of police personnel were deployed to Dupax del Norte in Nueva Vizcaya to enforce a writ of preliminary injunction ordering the dismantling of the people’s barricade against Woggle Corporation’s mineral exploration. Reports from the community indicate that Woggle personnel threatened the barricade with arrest if they interfered, while the police openly declared their readiness to carry out arrests. Despite a calm and peaceful protest—holding a mass

We strongly condemn the order of the Nueva Vizcaya Regional Trial Court Branch 30 directing the arrest of protesters who formed a peaceful human barricade along Keon Barangay Road in Dupax del Norte. This order, issued on 19 January by Judge Paul Attolba Jr., has the effect of criminalizing legitimate dissent and weaponizing the law to protect the interests of Woogle Corp. at the expense of the people. We stand firmly with the people of Dupax del Norte in their collective def

Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines face a deepening crisis of land loss caused by the aggressive encroachment of profit-oriented projects such as mining, dams, plantations, so-called renewable energy, tourism, and real estate developments. The biggest land grabber is the state itself, which declares ancestral lands as public lands and opens them to corporations for profit. This crisis is integral to the broader agrarian question in the country. The majority of Indigenous P

When the Bambang Regional Trial Court ordered protesters in Dupax del Norte to remove their barricades in favor of the Woggle Mining Corporation, we saw how our current justice system works to oppress resisting communities. On January 13, 2026, the regional court implemented a writ of preliminary injunction against the anti-mining barricade in Barangay Bitnong, allowing Woggle to access the mineral exploration site. This was followed by the removal of one of the blockades, as