Justice for Gloria Capitan! Stop the Killing of Climate Justice Activists!

JUSTICE FOR GLORIA CAPITAN! STOP THE KILLING OF CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTIVISTS!

We condemn the killing of Gloria Capitan, Filipino woman  leader-activist of KILUSAN, a member organization of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice. Ate Glo, as she is called by people close to her, was shot by motorcycle-riding gunmen last July 1.  She was 57 years old, a mother and a grandmother.

Ate Glo was very active in the fight against coal and led in a series of mass actions and petitions calling for a permanent closure of a coal stockpile in their village.

If this is an attempt to silence other anti-coal activists like her, then they are mistaken. On the ground where Ate Glo's body fell, where the blood from her body flowed, more anti-coal and climate justice activists will sprout.

We are activists and movements from all corners of the world.  Ate Glo’s sacrifice only further strengthens  our  solidarity and our conviction that this evil menace which is coal must end.  We will persevere in this fight and see to it that our children and the children of our children will be free from coal.

We join the clamor for the Philippine government to immediately launch a thorough investigation of her killing and bring the perpetrators  to justice.

SIGNED :

Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ)
Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)
Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM)
Freedom From Debt Coalition (FDC)
Sanlakas
Our Rivers Our Life Philippines (OROL)
Gitib Mindinao
Bukluran ng Manggawang Pilipino (BMP)
Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng Maralitang Lungsod (KPML)
Youth for Climate Justice Pilipinas (Y4CJ)
Koalisyon Pabahay Pilipinas (KPP)
Makabayan Pilipinas
Kalayaan Pilipinas
Green Convergence for Safe Food, Healthy Environment and Sustainable Economy
Bishop Broderick Pabillo
RECON Phils.
FPE-Mindanao Regional Unit
The Climate Reality Project Philippines
Ecological Society of the Philippines
Germelino M. Bautista
Greenresearch
FR. JOEL TABORA, S.J.
PROMISI
UNLAD
SASFA
Tess Tabada
Focus on the Global South
Aniban ng Mangagawa sa Agrikultura (AMA)
Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM)
No Nukes Asia Forum
Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK)
FDC-Western Mindanao Region
PALAG Mindanao
PMCJ-Western Mindanao Chapter
Sanlakas Misamis Occidental
APL Youth-SENTRO
Tambuyog Development Center
Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PHILRIGHTS)
Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED)
Socsargen Cared
World March of Women - Pilipinas and Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Asia Pacific (CATW-AP)
Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO)
Citizens' Environment Network (CEN).