Wearing red bandannas and carrying bamboo spears on hand, environmental activists, indigenous peoples, and religious groups marched to Mendiola Bridge and burned a ‘big miner protector’ effigy of Aquino, to signify the progressive groups’ “all-out war against large-scale destructive mining and flawed mining policy.”
“Since the implementation of the Mining Act, big and foreign miners have exploited our lands, displaced our people, polluted our rivers and denuded our forests. Noy’s mining policy is literally tuwid na daan para sa pag-ubos ng ating likas-yaman (straight path to plunder our country’s natural resources),” said Clemente Bautista, national coordinator of green activist group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment.
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