"From that point forward it's been the result of a large amount of crowd-sourcing and other activities that have enabled the network to grow." I couldn't hear Boston Approach from my home in central Massachusetts so I placed some receivers near Boston Logan, where those transmissions originate," Pascoe said. "I started it when I was working on my instrument rating. It runs primarily on user donations and commercial work setting up private ATC streaming. LiveATC was launched in 2002 by pilot Dave Pascoe. Student pilots use it to listen to their local airport to get accustomed to the myriad radio calls required. If you've got nothing better to do on one night, visit, where anyone with a computer or smartphone and a passing interest in aviation can listen to control towers live, worldwide, and in full action. It's all in the language of pilots and Air Traffic Control (ATC), and fascinating for the aviation enthusiast. There is no certainty about what could happen to him, and our bank accounts and assets have also been put on freeze order,” she added.ĭespite these challenges, Josefa said his father remains committed to serving the Cordillera people and continues to dedicate time to care for their family. “Because of this situation, my father and our family are in a dangerous situation. The incident was followed by threats from unknown people, forcing their father to stay in their house and bringing fear to their household. Josefa said the ATC’s designation had compounded the pain and hardship the family has endured since Steve’s abduction and psychological torture in August last year. “He is one of the thousands of Cordillera activists, who are part of the movement to protect the indigenous people’s rights to life, livelihood, and self-determination,” she added. She said her father continues to dedicate his time, even now that he is a senior citizen, “to organizing miners, urban poor, farmers, and others to defend their human rights.” Speaking before the protesters and passersby, Josefa said in Tagalog: “He is an indigenous activist who has devoted his entire life to serving the most marginalized communities in Cordillera. Siblings Amian, Kinja, and Josefa, and their mother Jill were also at the protest to demand the delisting of their father, Stephen “Steve” Tauli, from the growing list of designated terrorists. Jennifer’s mother was not the lone family member of those recently tagged by the ATC during the protest. “This is wrong, this is unjust, should not be doing this, but here we are now, this what we have been warning about when the Anti-Terrorism Law was still a proposal – that it will lead to violation of people’s rights and worst, it threatens lives and communities,” Dekdeken added. “There is nothing wrong with rejecting big dams, there is nothing wrong with opposing large-scale mining, these are the right of the people and indigenous communities,” she said. She cited the terrorist designation of four CPA leaders as the latest of these attacks. She described Jennifer as a diligent student who consistently excelled academically and co-curricular, completing her degree in secondary education as a government scholar under the Selected Ethnic Group Educational Assistance Program.Īccording to her, instead of heeding the concerns raised by indigenous peoples, the government has intensified harassment, threats, filing of trumped-up charges, and abduction of leaders and members of people’s organizations. She stressed that her daughter has always been “a law-abiding citizen since her high school days up to the present.” She was supposed to send a message but decided to deliver it personally, so people may better be acquainted with her daughter, Jennifer Awingan Taggaoa, one of the four Igorot activists the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) designated as terrorists.ĭuring the program, the retired public high school teacher read an open letter addressed to the President, the ATC, and state security forces. BAGUIO CITY, Philippines - The more than 12-hour travel from Barangay Limos in Pinukpuk, Kalinga, to Baguio City did not deter 72-year-old Petrona Awingan from joining the People’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) in the country’s Summer Capital on July 24, in time for the second SONA of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.
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