Groups call for release of green activists abducted in Pangasinan
Local and international environmental, religious, and human rights groups call for the release of environmental activists Joxeille Tiong and Francisco Dangla III who were allegedly abducted in Pangasinan Sunday, March 24.
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00:00 Local and international environmental, religious and human rights groups call for the release
00:07 of two environmental activists allegedly abducted in northern Philippines Sunday, March 24.
00:13 Joxiel Teong and Francisco Dangla III are conveners of the Pangasinan People's Strike
00:18 for the Environment.
00:20 Witnesses saw two men forced inside an SUV Sunday night in Barangay Polo in San Carlos
00:25 City, Pangasinan.
00:26 Calikasan People's Network for the Environment say Teong and Dangla spoke up against "the
00:32 harms of coal-fired power plants, nuclear power plants, incinerator plants, and offshore
00:37 mining in Lingayen Gulf."
00:39 A sign-on statement demanding their safe release makes the rounds on social media.
00:43 At least 48 local organizations and 32 groups based outside the Philippines signed.
00:49 In 2023, environmental activists Janila Castro and Jed Damano were abducted in Bataan.
00:55 [Music]