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BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — A trial is expected to publicize alleged human rights violations committed by OceanaGold Philippines Inc. (OGPI), two years after the mining company reportedly demolished houses in a Didipio, Kasibu village in this province.

This was disclosed by Peter Duyapat, chairperson of Didipio Earth-Savers Multipurpose Association (Desama), which represents communities displaced by the mining company’s operations.

Dear Supporters, friends and colleagues,

MANILA, February 18, 2010—A CATHOLIC priest who has marched with peasants and indigenous peoples in street protests is filling an important position in the Church’s social action apostolate.

February 1,2010 -House Representative Erin Tañada, sponsor of the Alternative Mining Bill (AMB), speaks before the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) students on the Philippine Mining Act (RA 7942) and the AMB (HB 6342) in a forum organized by Kontra Mina held at Civil Law Auditorium UST. (Photo by Roslyn Arayata, ATM)

Download Representative Tañada's presentation and speech 

ITALY –Filipinos based in Italy are ready to help farmers and
Palawan’s indigenous people against irresponsible mining and other
forms of destruction of the environment.

“Dapat suportahan ang campaign na ito against the irresponsible
mining. Ang consequence nito ay masyadong long term irreversible,” said
Msgr. Jerry Bitoon.

As this developed, Italian anthropologist Danilo Novellino is also
spearheading a signature campaign to appeal to Malacañang and the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to do something
about their concern.

Read two articles related to the North Korean ship carrying magnetite listed off the coast of Claveria, Cagayan. Reported by Melvin Gascon, Inquirer North Luzon.

CEBU, Philippines - The Mines and Geosciences Bureau-7 rejected a total of 156 mining rights applications last year as part of the bureau’s continuing cleansing efforts.

MGB-7 needs to reject non-performing or sluggish mining rights applications to leave only the potential ones that would contribute to the revitalization of the mining industry in Central Visayas.

ATM commemorates the life of the great Dr. Jose P. Rizal, a renowned advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. Yearly, December thirty (30) has been observed as Rizal Day, a Philippine holiday, in commemoration of Rizal's execution day in 1896 at Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park). Rizal died at the age of 35. His martyred death further precipitated the Philippine Revolution.

Rizal is a national hero in the Philippines, who founded La Liga Filipina, a civic organization that subsequently gave birth to the revolutionary movement known as the Katipunan. He is also a known poet, essayist, diarist, correspondent, and novelist. His most famous novels were Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.

Read Rizal's insights on mining in one of his essays...