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[Photo] SOS YB’s Placards dance

[Photo] SOS YB’s Placards dance

Mimicking a “Placards dance” usually seen in Football games ceremony, the group performed their own to creatively deliver to the government and to the public their demands and to reiterate the state of the peoples’ rights and environment in mining affected communities. Photo shot last July 23, 2014 at Mendiola (Legarda-Recto crossings). Photo by Rommel […]

[Press Release] Group challenges PNoy to side with victims of human rights abuses and environment destruction and not with the greedy few

[Press Release] Group challenges PNoy to side with victims of human rights abuses and environment destruction and not with the greedy few

PRESS RELEASE July 25, 2014 Group challenges PNoy to side with victims of human rights abuses and environment destruction and not with the greedy few Demands Government to prioritize the scrapping of Mining Act of 1995 and the legislation of AMMB as urgent in his SONA As part of the week-long pre-SONA campaign expressing their […]

PRESS RELEASE: Green activists and rights groups launch campaign asking PNoy to prioritize peoples’ rights and environment over profit from mining

PRESS RELEASE: Green activists and rights groups launch campaign asking PNoy to prioritize peoples’ rights and environment over profit from mining

PRESS RELEASE July 19, 2014 Green activists and rights groups launch campaign asking PNoy to prioritize peoples’ rights and environment over profit from mining A week before President Benigno Aquino’s 4th State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 28, rights groups, environmental activists and advocates intensified their call for PNoy to act decisively on […]

SA SONA: DAPAT TAO MUNA HINDI MINA! DAPAT AMMB ISABATAS NA!

SA SONA: DAPAT TAO MUNA HINDI MINA! DAPAT AMMB ISABATAS NA!

SA SONA: DAPAT TAO MUNA HINDI MINA! DAPAT AMMB ISABATAS NA! Dear friends, We are launching a nationwide letter barrage campaign for  the 10 point Human Rights Agenda on Mining, endorsed by different human rights, environmental, indigenous peoples and women’s’ groups and which we aim to reach President Benigno Aquino III, the two Houses of […]

Sample letter to PNoy

DAPAT TAO MUNA HINDI MINA SA SONA DAPAT AMMB ISABATAS NA! Dear friends, We are launching a nationwide letter barrage campaign for  the 10 point Human Rights Agenda on Mining, endorsed by different human rights, environmental, indigenous peoples and women’s’ groups and which we aim to reach President Benigno Aquino III, the two Houses of […]