MINDANAO
Situation
Mindanao
“Min”
= Land
“Danao”= Lake
“Mindanao” means
“Land of the Lakes”
Geography
• 2nd largest island
in the Philippines
• 19th biggest
island in the
world (101,998 sq. km)
• Just above
equator, part of
the Pacific Rim of
Fire
Population

18 million
– 13 million non-
indigenous groups
– 3.6 million indigenous
peoples
(18 ethnolinguistic tribes or lumad)
– 1.4 million Moro
(13 tribes)
A Land of Contradictions
Abundant
resources
 agriculture
 sea products
 Minerals
 Liguasan
Marsh
 Philippine
Deep
A Land of Contradictions
But people living
in extreme
poverty
 1.4 million
families hungry
 60% live below
poverty
threshold
Mindanao Regions among the Highest in Poverty Incidence
1. ARMM (55.3%)
2. Caraga (45.5)
3. MIMAROPA (43.7)
4. Bicol Region (41.8)
5. Eastern Visayas (40.7)
6. Zamboanga (40.2)
7. Northern Mindanao
(36.1)
8. SOCCSKSARGEN (33.8)
9. Western Visayas (31.1)
10. Davao Region (30.6)
2006 National Statistical
Coordination Board
Widespread Hunger in Mindanao
Hunger in Mindanao
Hunger Incidence
4th Qtr. 2008
Mindanao
33.7 % (1.4 M families)
Metro Manila
23.3 % (570,000 families)
Luzon
20 %(1.6 M families)
Visayas
20 % (1.6 M families)
2008 Social Weather Station
Pineapple plantations
in Northern Mindanao
Kompanya
Ektarya
Lugar
Dole Philippines
36,204
Dangcagan ug Kibawe,
Bukidnon
Del Monte Philippines
4,019.28
Malaybalay, Impasugong, Sumilao
DAVCO
1,500
Don Carlos
Southern Fresh Products
1,500
Don Carlos
Dole-STANFILCO
1,300
Malaybalay, Impasugong, Kitaotao, Baungon
Lapanday Diversified
Products
900
Manolo Fortich,
Malaybalay
TOTAL
45,423.28
BANANA plantations
Kompanya
Ektarya
Lugar
Dole-Stanfilco
11,904
Malaybalay, Valencia,
Impasug-ong, Kiataotao,
Dangcagan, Don Carlos,
Baungon, Lantapan,
Maramag, Sumilao
Agrinana Development
Corporation
6,167
Baungon, Libona
Southern Fresh Products
3,200
Mt. Kitanglad Agriventures
2000
Lapanday Diversified
Products
1,435
TOTAL
24,706
Lantapan
Palm oil

170, 000 ektarya sa Shannnalyne
Environmental and Technological Park,
Esperanza-Lorenzo, Agusan del Sur.

15, 391 ektarya sa Tambuli Mining
Company, San Luis, Agusan del Sur.
Bukidnon
 51 ka kompanya ang ga-apply ug exploration permit sa
sidlakang bahin sa probinsya.
Lugar
Minahan
Ektarya
Malaybalay
Nickeloadeon Mines, Inc.
4,698
Ophiolite Mining Inc.
13,142.25
Garnierite Mining Inc.
6,804
Goenerite Mining Corp.
Impasug-ong
Nickeloadeon Mines Inc.
1,863
Orex Mindanao Inc.
14,483
Manolo Fortich
Nickeloreon Mining Inc.
899
Malitbog
Nickeloreon Mining Inc.
1,539
Agusan del Norte
Lugar
Minahan
Ektarya
Las Nieves
Greater Asia Magnetic
Sand Open Pit Mining
4,000
Cabadbaran and Tubay
SEMCO Exploration
and Mining Corp
1,603.90
Santiago
Basiana Mining
Exploration Corp
1,603.5295
Jabonga, Tubay,
Santiago
Minimax Mineral
Exploration Corp
7,679
Jabonga-Santiago
Concordia R. Llave
253.1375
Tubay
SR Metals Inc.
572.64
Total
15,712.20
Agusan del Sur
Lugar
Minahan
Ektarya
Esperanza - Loreto
Shannalyne Environmental
and Technological Park
170, 000
San Luis, Esperanza
Tambuli Mining Company
Inc.
15,391.80
La Paz
Malampay Mining Inc.
15,309.59
Pacific Maunlad Mining
Corp
8,039.9011
Bunawan
Philsaga Mining Corp
3,132.31
Prosperidad- Bayugan
Oceanagold (Phils) Res.
Corp
1,920
Total
213,793.70
Pulangui V
Hydro Electric
Dam
-FIBECO
-Greenergy Development
Corp
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Mokabat ngadto sa 3, 300 ektarya ang yutang apektado
3 ka barangay ang siguradong malubog sa tubig
Momugna ug 300MW nga koryenteng mamahimong mosuplay sa tibuok Mindanao
KEY BIODIVERSITY AREAS in Mindanao
KEY BIODIVERSITY AREAS in Mindanao
and ancestral domain areas
IP Ancestral domain areas
KEY BIODIVERSITY AREAS in Mindanao,
ancestral domain areas and mono-crop plantations
Rubber plantations
Oil palm plantations
Pineapple plantations
Banana plantations
KEY BIODIVERSITY AREAS in Mindanao,
ancestral domain areas, mono-crop plantations,
and bio-fuels plantations
Mining
Taganito mining
Tenements in
Lake Mainit
KEY BIODIVERSITY AREAS in Mindanao,
Tubay mining
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Implications
Islamophobia
 The irrational fear
of Islam, Muslim
or Islamic culture
 Encompasses the
belief that all or
most Muslims are
religious fanatics
Implications
Ethnocide
 The sum effect of
policies and
programs that
erode cultural
integrity and
identity of
indigenous
populations
Implications
Culture of impunity
 Summary killings
 Human rights
violations
Militarisasyon ug Paglapas sa
Tawhanong Katungod
Lugar
Kaso
Bukidnon
Threat, Harassment,
Intimidation
19
Illegal Arrest and Detention
3
Coercion (Pagpasurender,
Pagpabakwit)
4
Paggamit sa sibilyan isip
guide/shield sa mil op
4
Agusan del Sur
Ihap
Pagbakwit
Threat, harassment,
Intimidation
EJK
4
People’s responses

Strengthening
movement
against the US
Empire
People’s responses

Exposing human
rights violations
and militarism
People’s responses
Resisting
Imperialist
plunder at the
communities

People’s responses

Fighting
Islamophobia
through antiimperialist
Muslim-Christian
Solidarity
People’s responses

Promoting
alternatives to
globalization and
plunder
Solidarity with the People
of Mindanao
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Be an Advocate for a
Just Peace in
Mindanao
Resist Islamophobia
Fight Ethnocide
Defend the Patrimony
of the Filipino
people/Resist
imperialist plunder of
Mindanao’s resources
Support indigenous
people’s rights to
self-determination
Solidarity with the People
of Mindanao
Support our Dreams & Struggle for
Liberation & Self-Determination