A Filipino tribe fights to stay as a ‘Smart City’ rises on a former US base | Indigenous Rights News | Al Jazeera
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"Historians say American colonisers, who seized the Philippines from Spain in 1898, took over the 32,000-hectare (80,000-acre) tract that became Clark Air Base in the 1920s, dispossessing the Aetas, a seminomadic and dark-skinned people thought to be among the archipelago’s earliest inhabitants."

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A Filipino tribe fights to stay as a ‘Smart City’ rises on a former US base

Aetas race to prove ancestral land claims before a ‘Smart City’ and a ‘Taylor Swift-ready’ stadium displace them.

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A quote about "green energy": "The UN itself bemoans the fact that Indigenous people “safeguard 80 per cent of the planet’s remaining biodiversity – yet receive less than one per cent of international climate funding.” This discrepancy undermines the fundamental assumptions of the UN approach, which is predominantly reliant on investment as a tool for change. Consider how much Indigenous peoples around the world do with so little money. Contrast that with green energy, which is a hub of public and private investment. The green energy boom is the impetus for a devastating wave of land theft and new mining projects, which disproportionately harm Indigenous communities and the rural poor. And while recovery of Indigenous lands and traditions has clear, positive impact on the environment, green energy has actually increased fossil fuel production."
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