{"id":753,"date":"2012-10-10T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/press\/753\/malita-and-san-miguels-duck-a-short-story\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:05:15","slug":"malita-and-san-miguels-duck-a-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/story\/753\/malita-and-san-miguels-duck-a-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Malita and San Miguel&#8217;s Duck: A Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>There  was once was a tourist who went to a small town to see the sights.  Seeing a large crowd congregating by the town cockpit, he heads toward  it. Not having seen an actual cockfight in his life, he was excited to  finally witness one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At the cockpit, he was bewildered to see a duck as  one of the entries in the matches. He was informed by a man beside him  that their town was run by a powerful mafia. It was so powerful that  even the town Mayor was at its beck and call. The duck, the tourist is  told, was owned by the town\u2019s powerful mafia!<\/p>\n<p>The tourist left the cockpit amazed at what he had  just learned. He went on his way exploring the town. He was not  surprised later on to hear that the duck had won the cock derby.<\/p>\n<p>The struggle against coal and mining in Malita is like having a duck  owned by a powerful mafia in a cock derby. We are up against the duck  owners, San Miguel Corporation, through its subsidiaries SMC Global  Power Corporation for coal and Legenda Mines, Inc. for mining.<\/p>\n<p>Malita has no future in these projects; it will  irreversibly destroy Malita\u2019s environment and drive out the Tagakaulo  from their ancestral lands! Everybody knows this but those who stand to  benefit financially from the project are praising to the highest heavens  the blessings that San Miguel Corporation has graciously bestowed on  the town that the people who see the obvious can barely be heard. But  not for long!<\/p>\n<p>People are mustering their strength collectively,  in and out of Malita, to show San Miguel Corporation and its cheering  squad that a duck has no place in a cock derby!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There  was once was a tourist who went to a small town to see the sights.  Seeing a large crowd congregating by the town cockpit, he heads toward  it. Not having seen an actual cockfight in his life, he was excited to  finally witness one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7],"p4-page-type":[16],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","tag-energy","p4-page-type-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}