Hunger strikers from Mindoro expressed their anxiety over their physical conditions as they enter the sixth day of their hunger strike in front of the DENR here in Quezon City. This developed as one of them, Edgardo Cruzado, 38, was rushed to the hospital last night, and after medical...

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Mangyans to Press Hunger Strike

by Alcuin Papa and Riza T. Olchondra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
November 20 2009 page A2

SOME 25 HUNGER STRIKERS, most of them members of the Mangyan tribe, vowed yesterday to continue their protest in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) central office in Quezon City...

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Save Mindoro Campaign Schedule

Posted By: CEDC Media Center
Sunday, November 15, 2009

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25 Mindoro Hunger Strikers Not Going Home Yet

INQUIRER.net
First Posted 20:52:00 11/18/2009

MANILA, Philippines—The 25 hunger strikers from Mindoro are not going home just yet. This despite the order made by Environment Secretary Lito Atienza Wednesday suspending the environmental clearance he issued to Intex Resources to mine 11,216.6 hectares of land in Mindoro, the Alyansa Laban...

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Mangyans, priests protest mining project
Posted By: CEDC Media Center

CALAPAN CITY, Philippines—(UPDATE 2) About 5,000 demonstrators carrying mock coffins marched through downtown Calapan City to protest Environment Secretary Lito Atienza’s “railroaded” issuance of an environmental...

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Mindoreños Call for Atienza's Ouster over
'Railroaded' Mining Clearance

By Ma. Ceres P. Doyo

Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:04:00 11/13/2009

Filed Under: indigenous people, Protest, Environmental Issues, Mining and quarrying, Churches (organisations)

MANILA, Philippines—Mangyans and priests, supported by bishops, are taking their protest to Metro Manila and will go on an indefinite hunger strike beginning next week to...

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Intex public hearing in Victoria Thwarted
Victoria, Oriental Mindoro
15 May 2009

A Public Hearing to be conducted by Environmental and Management Bureau (EMB) for Mindoro Nickel Project of Intex Resources was cancelled due to strong public opposition of the people led by the Municipal Government of Victoria, different Churches and affected sectors of the stakeholder communities including the...

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Biggest rally stops public hearing for Intex Resaurces

Pola, Oriental Mindoro (May 14, 2009)-A public hearing for the proposed Mindoro Nickel Project of Intex Resources Philippines, Inc. planned to be held today in Pola, Oriental Mindoro was not able to even start due to the intervention of the Provincial Legal Officer, Atty. Lorebelle M. Tanyag, Vice Governor Estela Aceron and a crowd of officials from the local government units (LGUs) including the municipal mayors Alfredo Ortega of Victoria , Oriental Mindoro, and Godofredo Mintu of...

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A Joint Position Paper of Municipal Government
of Victoria and Mangyan Mission on the Proposed
Mindoro Nickel Project by Intex Resources
and the Threats of Large-Scale Mining 
of Intex Resources/Aglubang  in Oriental Mindoro

For the record, the underlined signatories manifest our vehement objection to the resolute attempts of Intex Resources to proceed with the operational phase of the mining project, despite the long-standing opposition of the local government units, the Church and the civil society groups both in Oriental and...

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Position PAPER on Ecology, Food Security
and the Threats of Large-Scale Mining 
of Intex Resources/Aglubang 
in Oriental Mindoro
(Submitted to Her Excellency, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, October 16, 2008)

We, pastors of different parishes, leaders of peoples organizations, together with our partners in the civil society, are alarmed by the prevailing situation of ecological crises and imminent destruction of the environment occasioned by a lack of respect for nature and the plunder of our natural resources by large-scale mining, with Mindoro island having a total of 92 mining applications as reported by Mines and...

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Mining issue turns off Arroyo
By Christian V. Esguerra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 19:29:00 10/12/2008

MANILA -- Complaints about mining are sure to turn off President Macapagal-Arroyo these days.

Not wanting to be cornered on issues against mining in the country, President Macapagal-Arroyo immediately diverted a recent dialogue with leaders of indigenous communities to other issues.

According to leaders of the Catholic Church who were present during the talk, the President was visibly uncomfortable when a Palace dialogue led by a Roman Catholic bishop supposedly solely on indigenous people's concerns became a litany of complaints over government-promoted mining operations across the country, last Wednesday.

Laoag Bishop Sergio Utleg herded a group of around 20 tribe leaders to present to Ms Arroyo the official position of a Church-sponsored regional assembly for the indigenous people's month.
But someone apparently forgot to...

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Our National Patrimony is Not For Sale! Statement
Task Force Sierra Madre and Alyansa Tigil Mina
February 3, 2005

We, a united movement of indigenous peoples, Church groups, academic institutions, civil society organizations and people's organizations, call:

1. for a moratorium on large-scale commercial mining activities

2. to reject the National Minerals Action Plan

3. to scrap the Philippine Mining Act and enact an Alternative People's Mining Act

It is a myth that the present mining industry can be a responsible and sustainable contributor to national development. The mining companies neglect of the...

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