PRESS RELEASE

August 18, 2010

Manila – President Aquino was urged yesterday by various environmental organizations to “turn green” and herald the use of sustainable development as a guidepost for his “tuwid na daan” (righteous road) policy. The assertion was issued in reaction to the statement issued by ten mining companies last week, urging the President to resolve the stand-off in the controversial Tampkan mining project in South Cotabato.

Press Release

Cantilan, Surigao del Sur, August 2, 2010:  Mayor Genito B. Guardo of Cantilan denied the mining company’s application for a business permit for a second time, telling Marcventures Mining Development Corporation (MMDC) that it has no legal basis to apply for a business permit.

PRESS STATEMENT

26 July 2010

IPs not impressed with P-Noy Sona, proceed with their own State of the Indigenous Peoples Address

Lantapan, Bukidnon - Close to a hundred Indigenous Peoples representatives from Luzon and Mindanao gathered at the Apu Agbibilin Community Center in Brgy. Songco listened to President Benigno Aquino’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA) and found it wanting.

LANTAPAN, BUKIDNON—Some 100 indigenous peoples (IP) leaders representing lumad communities all over the country gathered here to forge an IP Agenda for the newly inaugurated Aquino administration.

Dubbed as the State of the Indigenous Peoples Address (SIPA ’10 kicked off yesterday at the Hall of Peace, Sungco, Lantapan town, here in Bukidnon. The opening coincides with the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III.