The municipal council formally adopted the resolution protecting our ancestral lands from external corporate acquisition today. We will now shift our focus to monitoring the implementation of these new zoning regulations to ensure strict compliance by all local offices.
January 6, 2020
Final supporters
A Petition Upholding Sagada’s Customary Law
That Our Land Is NOT For Sale/Lease/Mortgage/Patenting
To Outside Private and Corporate Entities
Sagada has the smallest land area among all the ten municipalities of mountain province with only 10,910 hectares. For its small size, our territory has been blessed with a spectacular landscape and source of life and pride for us as a people and the envy of visitors who come for adventure, enjoyment and relaxation. We have made efforts to keep it that way in the face of the onslaught of mass tourism which has chipped off much of what we value as a community.
We are now taking a stand for a kind of tourism that will put premium on protecting the natural heritage Kabunyan has bestowed on us and the cultural values handed down to us by our ancestors. If we need tourism, it must be nature-based tourism that supports the development of small businesses for the benefit of all sectors in the community. Our local tourist industry has opened opportunities for livelihood, our guides and are local drivers are upgrading their skills to address the needs of local residents and travelers, boosted our weaving industry, our orchards and coffee production and downstream businesses. Sagada's economic progress has not gone unnoticed by outsiders, drawing the interest of investors and would-be investors.
Rich businessmen or oligarchs, showbiz personalities have expressed interest to buy, lease, or control our land. We have a long historical tradition of fighting for our communal and ancestral lands. We have denied entry of Cellophil, PhilCarbon, big mining corporate interests. Now once more dark clouds hover over our community posing danger not only to local businesses but to Sagada's overall social and cultural fabric. This will have serious implications as well on Sagada's local governance by giving way to outside moneyed interests while eventually pushing local political leaders to the margins.
If we surrender our land, forests, mountains and watersheds to outsiders, we surrender our soul as a people.
We stand against the sale, lease of land, especially large-scale patents to outsiders.
We firmly oppose the entry of Ayala or anybody who would dispossess us of our ancestral heritage. This is our patrimony and must remain so for generations.
Updates
December 23, 2019
We are currently organizing a formal meeting with the municipal council to present the signatures and demand a moratorium on external land control. A local legal collective is also assisting us in drafting a proposed ordinance that codifies these protections into municipal policy.
December 23, 2019
The current momentum confirms our focus on protecting Sagada land from external corporate control. I am finalizing the formal documentation to present these collective demands to the municipal council during our upcoming hearing.
Reached 100 supporters
December 23, 2019
17 Comments
Let's keep off the old and new oligarchies or worse, even cronies from PH ancestral lands, including expansionist-foreign-funded-governments disguised as investors.
Definitely NO selling of Sagada lands to the ayalas. Let the isagada have their share of this earth.
I strongly support d petition for d sake of upholding r traditions n all future generations!!!
I oppose the sale of land to outsiders. the entire sagada is an ancestral land and heritage.
Definitely, myself born in Sagada reject idea of selling any property of Sagada to rich opportunists. Let it remain for the town and Sagadians to benefit from them. Please.
Spare Sagada please
Not only for Sagada but all of Mt. Province....
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The municipal council formally adopted the resolution protecting our ancestral lands from external corporate acquisition today. We will now shift our focus to monitoring the implementation of these new zoning regulations to ensure strict compliance by all local offices.
January 6, 2020
Final supporters
A Petition Upholding Sagada’s Customary Law
That Our Land Is NOT For Sale/Lease/Mortgage/Patenting
To Outside Private and Corporate Entities
Sagada has the smallest land area among all the ten municipalities of mountain province with only 10,910 hectares. For its small size, our territory has been blessed with a spectacular landscape and source of life and pride for us as a people and the envy of visitors who come for adventure, enjoyment and relaxation. We have made efforts to keep it that way in the face of the onslaught of mass tourism which has chipped off much of what we value as a community.
We are now taking a stand for a kind of tourism that will put premium on protecting the natural heritage Kabunyan has bestowed on us and the cultural values handed down to us by our ancestors. If we need tourism, it must be nature-based tourism that supports the development of small businesses for the benefit of all sectors in the community. Our local tourist industry has opened opportunities for livelihood, our guides and are local drivers are upgrading their skills to address the needs of local residents and travelers, boosted our weaving industry, our orchards and coffee production and downstream businesses. Sagada's economic progress has not gone unnoticed by outsiders, drawing the interest of investors and would-be investors.
Rich businessmen or oligarchs, showbiz personalities have expressed interest to buy, lease, or control our land. We have a long historical tradition of fighting for our communal and ancestral lands. We have denied entry of Cellophil, PhilCarbon, big mining corporate interests. Now once more dark clouds hover over our community posing danger not only to local businesses but to Sagada's overall social and cultural fabric. This will have serious implications as well on Sagada's local governance by giving way to outside moneyed interests while eventually pushing local political leaders to the margins.
If we surrender our land, forests, mountains and watersheds to outsiders, we surrender our soul as a people.
We stand against the sale, lease of land, especially large-scale patents to outsiders.
We firmly oppose the entry of Ayala or anybody who would dispossess us of our ancestral heritage. This is our patrimony and must remain so for generations.
Updates
December 23, 2019
We are currently organizing a formal meeting with the municipal council to present the signatures and demand a moratorium on external land control. A local legal collective is also assisting us in drafting a proposed ordinance that codifies these protections into municipal policy.
December 23, 2019
The current momentum confirms our focus on protecting Sagada land from external corporate control. I am finalizing the formal documentation to present these collective demands to the municipal council during our upcoming hearing.
Reached 100 supporters
December 23, 2019
17 Comments
leave our land alone. we dont need big developers ruining our peace and culture sagada is for the isagada not for those greedy billionaires who just want more money
Let's keep off the old and new oligarchies or worse, even cronies from PH ancestral lands, including expansionist-foreign-funded-governments disguised as investors.
Definitely NO selling of Sagada lands to the ayalas. Let the isagada have their share of this earth.
I strongly support d petition for d sake of upholding r traditions n all future generations!!!
I oppose the sale of land to outsiders. the entire sagada is an ancestral land and heritage.
Definitely, myself born in Sagada reject idea of selling any property of Sagada to rich opportunists. Let it remain for the town and Sagadians to benefit from them. Please.
Spare Sagada please
Not only for Sagada but all of Mt. Province....
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leave our land alone. we dont need big developers ruining our peace and culture sagada is for the isagada not for those greedy billionaires who just want more money