Part I:Activists’ murders spur online protest versus mining
Part II: Foreign, local firms raid Cagayan for magnetite
By Farah Sevilla and Denise Fontanilla
Alyansa Tigil Mina and VERA Files
A Facebook page named “Stop Black Sand Mining in Cagayan” has garnered some 3,700 supporters who have been using the online space to speak up not only against the environmental destruction magnetite mining brings, but also about the deaths it has caused.
In fact, the page was put up shortly after 30-year-old anti-mining advocate Gensun Agustin was gunned down by unidentified men in Buguey, Cagayan on March 1 last year while riding his motorcycle on his way home.
Agustin was one of five anti-mining activists killed within months of each other in that mining town on the country’s northernmost shore. All deaths remain unresolved.
The five had been actively campaigning against the extraction of magnetite, a black sand ore abundant in the province and commonly used as an additive for high-strength concrete and steel products.
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Tanda ko na ang aplaya namin ay takda ding minahin para sa magnetite nung bata pa si Sabel pero hindi pumwede sa mga een-pee-eey. Takot ng mga magmimina pati ang mayor, atras sila lahat.
Dami pang mamamatay na anti-mining activist kasi walang napaparusahan. Maimpluwensya sa awtoridad ang nagpapamina, magkano kaya bayad sa town officials para magbulag-bulagan?
controlled mining shld. be done to boost our industrialization otherwise,I’m also against it.
Ano ba yan? Nasa payroll na rin ba ng mga local politicians ang mga killers? Sobra siguro ang “lagay” ng mga mining companies sa mga local politicians so these corrupt politicians would kill to push through with the mining projects.
Kaya nga tinawag na “Natural Resource” yang mga minerals na yan dahil galing sa Lumikha. By definition, it will only become a “resource” if it is utilized and generates economic gains.
Walang kokontra sa minahan kung lahat makikinabang. Kung tama ang paraan at may hanapbuhay at taxes na ibinabayad na ginagamit naman para sa ikabubuti ng mamamayan ay walang patayan. Nagkakagulo lang pag pinasukan na ito ng kasakiman ng alin man sa stakeholders.
Kung ang magmimina ay mandaraya at bababuyin ang kalikasan, may mamamatay. Kung ang pambansa at lokal na opisyal ay gahaman, magkakamatayan din. Kung ang pamayanan ay ipagdadamot ang kalikasan, may mamamatay din.
there is actually nothing wrong with being an activist but in pinas its synonymous with being a leftist which is again synonymous with being a communist.
norpil: indeed there is nothing wrong with being an activist…as a matter of fact we should all be one…be active and bantayan ang palakad ng gobyerno kahit sino ang Presidente…let us all be involved ..Patrol ng Bayan!
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