TAN-AWAN express – 16 April 2013
Click image to enlarge What: Oral Arguments When: 16 April 2013 (Tuesday) What time: 2:00 PM Where: Supreme Court, Baguio City Cases questioning Mining Act constitutionality to be debated before Supreme Court WHAT ARE THE CASES ABOUT? The two petitions question the constitutionality of Sections 80 and 81 of the Mining Act of 1995, [...]
Recent Updates
ECC issuance is once again Profit for the Privileged Few over General Welfare
The issuance of Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) to Sagittarius Mines Incorporated (SMI-Xstrata) for the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project, albeit not surprising, is but further proof of Government’s bias towards corporate and business interests, and against the welfare of its people and peoples, whom it is duty-bound to serve. The Administration reveals its bias for profit, choosing [...]
In solidarity
An aerial view of Boston, Davao Oriental. Photo by Assistant Secretary Ray Marfil We sympathize and are in solidarity with our partner communities and residents of Mindanao as they once more recover from the devastation of typhoon Pablo. The Center reiterates its caution and temperance against large-scale mining, logging, agribusiness expansion and development projects [...]
Congratulations, Justice Leonen!
The women and men of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center – Kasama sa Kalikasan FOE, with profound honor and pride, congratulate its founding Board Member and former Executive Director Dean Marvic M.V.F. Leonen on his appointment as Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Marvic co-founded LRC-KsK in 1987 along with [...]
A mother’s legacy for the price of copper and gold
Once more, tragedy has struck Tampakan, South Cotabato. Early this morning, we received reports from community members that Juvy Capion and her two young children, Pop Capion, aged 13, and John Capion, aged 8, were killed in an alleged military raid in Tampakan. Juvy and her children are of the B’laan indigenous tribe of Bong [...]
No to Philex mining operations in Surigao, no to another Padcal, say Surigaonons
PRESS RELEASE September 24, 2012 No to Philex mining operations in Surigao, no to another Padcal, say Surigaonons Surigao del Norte – Residents of barangay Anislagan, Placer municipality, Surigao del Norte denounce the plan of Philex Mining Corporation to have its Silangan Mindanao Projects fully operational by 2017. The Department of Environment and Natural [...]
SIPA Updates
Good day! You’re Invited to the Opening program of the State of the Indigenous Peoples Address (SIPA) 2012 and the 10th year anniversary of The Dapitan Initiative on October 12, 2012 (Friday), 5:00pm to 8:00pm at Bulwagang Recto Hall, G/ Faculty Center, UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon City. See you Cocoi lrc-ksk/foe-phils
Kami, limampu’t anim (56) na kababaihang katutubo na nagmula sa dalawampu’t apat (24) na tribo sa bansa ay nagtipon para sa isang National IP Women Gathering nitong ika-23 at 24 ng Hulyo, sa Christ the King Retreat Center, Koronadal, South Cotabato, upang pagtibayin ang aming mga paninindigan at pangarap.
“This is a peaceful community (but) tension among us (rose) after the mining community encroached (in) our village.” This were the words of Neneng Gamus, a mother of two, barangay councilor, and one of the mothers in the forefront of defending their land and life in Anislagan, Placer, Surigao del Norte.