On Earth Day of 2023, a coalition of community members, artists, activists, and scientists issued a call to the provincial government of La Union to declare a state of climate emergency.

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Sigay

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Sigay ~

It was entitled Sigay, which is the Ilocano word for fishing net.

In support of the call, Emerging Islands collaborated with Tadiar Library, zinemakers Kwago, and La Union- based artists and environmentalists to publish a zine, sharing local stories and perspectives on the global climate crisis.

  • A call to action from activist and Martial Law survivor Cris Palabay

  • Archival records of La Union’s climate patterns from the Manila Observatory

  • Environmental stories and posters made by local students

  • A map of disaster images from geologist and activist Narod Eco

Among the contributors of the zine were:

Check out the zine here.

Sigay was an effort to center and amplify voices and stories from the environmental frontline, who often go unheard in global conversations on the climate crisis.

We distributed the magazine in independent book shops and cultural spaces in the Philippines, as well as the Columbia Institute of Ideas and the Imagination in Paris, France.


In 2025, one of the municipalities included in the Climate Coalition, Bacnotan, was the first to declare a state of climate emergency in La Union, which we hope will galvanize the other towns to follow suit.

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