Kinokondena ng Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the Earth Philippines (LRC-KsK/FoE Phils) ang malisyosong pagbansag ni Retired Police Director Rodolfo “Boogie” Mendoza kay Jean Marie Ferraris bilang myembro ng Komite Sentral ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas sa harap ng mga mamahayag sa isinagawang forum ng Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) kamakailan lang.

Press Statement

Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC-KsK)– Luzon

Scrap the National Mining Policy Now!

Respect LGU Autonomy!

Contrary to the promises of progress and development, communities have reaped predominantly

negative social economic and environmental impacts from mining operations. The mining industry

has missed miserable on its targets and promises – investments, revenues, jobs and environmental

responsibilities. In fact it has caused numerous violations on human rights, indigenous peoples’

rights, undermined local autonomy, and worse, aggravated environmental and ecological degradation.

Press Release

Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center

September 14, 2010

Justice to all victims of human rights violations and anti-mining martyrs!

Resisting communities, advocates and activists troop the first day of the Mining Conference 2010 organized by the Chamber of Mines in Manila Hotel, Manila today to demand justice to all human rights violations and mining-related extra-judicial killings. 

Aside from the negative environmental and social impacts that communities have to bear due to mining, a list of martyrs in the struggle against mining is growing fast.

According to Judy Pasimio, Executive Director of LRC-KsK, “When we held an action last year during the Mining Conference 2009 in front of Sofitel Hotel in Manila, we were still with our colleague Gensun Agustin, who came from Cagayan. Today, he is no longer with us as he was brutally killed early this year.”

PRESS RELEASE

August 18, 2010

Manila – President Aquino was urged yesterday by various environmental organizations to “turn green” and herald the use of sustainable development as a guidepost for his “tuwid na daan” (righteous road) policy. The assertion was issued in reaction to the statement issued by ten mining companies last week, urging the President to resolve the stand-off in the controversial Tampkan mining project in South Cotabato.

Press Release

Cantilan, Surigao del Sur, August 2, 2010:  Mayor Genito B. Guardo of Cantilan denied the mining company’s application for a business permit for a second time, telling Marcventures Mining Development Corporation (MMDC) that it has no legal basis to apply for a business permit.

PRESS STATEMENT

26 July 2010

IPs not impressed with P-Noy Sona, proceed with their own State of the Indigenous Peoples Address

Lantapan, Bukidnon - Close to a hundred Indigenous Peoples representatives from Luzon and Mindanao gathered at the Apu Agbibilin Community Center in Brgy. Songco listened to President Benigno Aquino’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA) and found it wanting.

LANTAPAN, BUKIDNON—Some 100 indigenous peoples (IP) leaders representing lumad communities all over the country gathered here to forge an IP Agenda for the newly inaugurated Aquino administration.

Dubbed as the State of the Indigenous Peoples Address (SIPA ’10 kicked off yesterday at the Hall of Peace, Sungco, Lantapan town, here in Bukidnon. The opening coincides with the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III.

Press release

July 23, 2010

Koronadal City – Indigenous Peoples belonging to the T’boli tribe in Brgy. Ned. Lake Sebu, South Cotabato decry resent government inaction of their almost two decade-long that they (will) be allowed to live peacefully inside their ancestral territories.

Datu Victor Danyan, Chairperson of the T’boli-Manubo Sdaf Claimants Organization (TAMASCO) speaking in the dialect said that “the government is hurting us more by not listening and by not respecting our decisions not to allow mining or any other so-called development projects in our ancestral land”.