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Groups call on PNoy: Likas Yaman Depensahan, Karapatan Proteksyunan Enact three green bills—NLUMA, FRB, AMMB

Groups call on PNoy: Likas Yaman Depensahan, Karapatan Proteksyunan Enact three green bills—NLUMA, FRB, AMMB

Groups call on PNoy: Likas Yaman Depensahan, Karapatan Proteksyunan Enact three green bills—NLUMA, FRB, AMMB Days before President Benigno “PNoy” Aquino III’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), at least five hundred advocates and activists marched to the House of Representatives in Batasan to call on the President and Congress to defend the Philippine’s natural […]

Groups condemn ambush of B’laan leader and member in minerals-rich Davao del Sur -ATM

Groups condemn ambush of B’laan leader and member in minerals-rich Davao del Sur -ATM

Press Release July 5, 2013 Groups condemn ambush of B’laan leader and member in minerals-rich Davao del Sur Demand immediate investigation, pullout of paramilitary groups Groups, supporting the opposition of indigenous peoples and faith-based organizations to the Tampakan Copper Gold Mining project, condemn the recent report of ambush of B’laans Eking Freay and his brother-in-law […]

[Petition] DENR Sec. Ramon Paje: That Pres. Aquino Cancel the FTAA of SMI-Xstrata Tampakan Mining Project

[Petition] DENR Sec. Ramon Paje: That Pres. Aquino Cancel the FTAA of SMI-Xstrata Tampakan Mining Project

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Sec. Ramon Paje: That Pres. Aquino Cancel the FTAA of SMI-Xstrata Tampakan Mining Project Petisyon ni Fr. Oliver Castor, CSsR Quezon City, Philippines Despite the existing ban on open pit mining issued by the local government unit of South Cotabato, the residents and indigenous peoples community are still […]

SOS Yamang Bayan Network General Assembly

SOS Yamang Bayan Network General Assembly

  SOS Yamang Bayan Network 2nd General Assembly held in July 1 and 2 2013. Photo from SOS YB FB.

Show your support for the campaign to Enact the AMMB, use the hashtag #AMMBnow!

Show your support for the campaign to Enact the AMMB, use the hashtag #AMMBnow!

Show your support for the campaign to Enact the Alternative Minerals Management Bill, use the hashtag #AMMBnow!   SOS-Yamang Bayan Network: Alternative Minerals Management Bill filed in both Houses as Senate Bill No. 43 and House Bill No. 984.

Champions from the Senate and House of Representatives re-filed the Alternative Minerals Management Bill (AMMB) that will repeal the Mining Act of 1995

Champions from the Senate and House of Representatives re-filed the Alternative Minerals Management Bill (AMMB) that will repeal the Mining Act of 1995

Quezon City—Champions from the Senate and House of Representatives re-filed the Alternative Minerals Management Bill (AMMB) that will repeal the Mining Act of 1995. The AMMB is posed to promote a mining regime that is pro-poor, pro-environment and one that serves more for the benefit of Filipino communities and economy, as opposed to Republic Act […]