Update: Rapu Rapu related documents
See our Sites of Struggles page for a link to a few public domain Rapu Rapu related documents.
Our file storage system is ungainly, but with our dedicated website soon to launch, expect a major overhaul and excellent online resources.
PROTESTS IN BRUSSELS UNMASK ARROYO AS MASTERMIND OF POLITICAL KILLINGS
Press Release
13 September 2006
Several protest actions in Brussels, Belgium yesterday (Sept. 12) unmasked Gloria Arroyo, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police as the masterminds of the political killings in the Philippines.
After being criticized by the prime minister of Finland during GMA’s visit there, GMA was hounded by several protests in Brussels during her visit to the Belgian Parliament and the European Union.
Before being reminded by European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso that the political killings in the Philippines “were a matter of concern” to the EU during their meeting, about 100 protesters gathered earlier at the Schuman plaza fronting the European Commission building to denounce GMA, the AFP and the PNP as “the masterminds” behind the political killings. (more…)
Proliferation of Pseudo ‘Small-Scale’ Mining Projects Alarms the People of Marinduque
PRESS RELEASE - Marinduque Council for Environmental Concerns (MACEC)
September 13, 2006
Boac, Marinduque - The Marinduque Council for Environmental Concerns (MACEC), a church-based multi-sectoral organization in the Province of Marinduque is alarmed by the proliferation of mining companies in the Island-Province and other parts of the country which pose as ’small-scale’ players in the mining industry.
Just recently two mining companies, the Asian Iron Ore Corporation and Archean Mining Corporation, held a public consultation in Barangay Bocboc offering various economic opportunities to the people if they will be allowed to operate a “small-scale iron mining project.”
Barangay Bocboc is in the town of Mogpog and was one of the barangays which was grimly and critically affected by an enormoug flooding wrought by the collapse of Marcopper Mining Corporation’s Maguila-guila Siltation Dam on December 6, 1993 where two children died of drowning. Their civil case filed against Marcopper Mining Corporation and Placer Dome is still being heard in the Regional Trial Court of Marinduque. (more…)
