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25 fratmen run naked to protest Mindoro Mining

By atm.admin - Posted on December 15th, 2009
2009 December 15
25 fratmen run naked to protest Mindoro mining
by The Mindoro Post
Photo by Glen Ramirez
CALAPAN CITY— Twenty-five fratmen chanting “No to Mindoro mining!” ran naked in downtown Calapan Tuesday.
The 25 members of the Alpha Phi Omega Calapan (APO Kalap), who sprinted nude through the busy JP Rizal St., symbolized the 25-year ban on large-scale mining in Mindoro, said Mario Ramos, APO grand chancellor of the Divine Word College of Calapan chapter.
Ramos said the 30-minute run was APO’s “simple way” of protesting mineral exploitation in Mindoro.
“We do not have enough resources to fight big mining companies like Intex Resources. But in this simple way, we know that we can urge others to join the call to stop mining in their own way,” Ramos said.
APO Kalap president Boy Ricaflanca said the fraternity’s traditional “Oblation Run” was also carried out with the same theme in at least two other towns in Oriental Mindoro.
“There are other associations of APO in other municipalities like Victoria and  Roxas that conducted ‘Oblation Run’,” Ricaflanca said.
“This is our support for the Mindoreños’ call to stop Mindoro Nickel Project and the newly-approved Agusan Mining where four municipalities are covered,” he said.
At least three big mining firms have been given clearances by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to conduct mineral explorations on the island.
Norway-based Intex Resources is fighting a DENR order temporarily revoking its environmental compliance certificate to mine an area of 11,216.6 hectares on the largely agricultural island.
The DENR also allowed Pitkin Ltd to conduct oil exploration in portions of the towns of Sablayan, Calintaan, Rizal, San Jose and Magsaysay in Occidental Mindoro and in Bulalacao in Oriental Mindoro.
Agusan Petroleum meanwhile has exploration permit in Abra de Ilog in Occidental Mindoro and in the resort town of Puerto Galera and nearby San Teodoro in Oriental Mindoro.
The local governments of Mindoro, together with the multisectoral alliance Alyansa Laban sa Mina  (Alamin) and members of the Catholic church, have declared the mining activities as illegal, citing the large-scale mining prohibitions of Mindoro.
On Saturday, an ordinance ordering a 25-year mining moratorium came into force in Occidental Mindoro. A similar ban has been in effect in Oriental Mindoro since 2002.
On November 27, Environment Secretary Lito Atienza ordered a temporary revocation of the mining clearance issued for Intex’s Mindoro Nickel Project following an 11-day hunger strike staged by Mangyans, community leaders and church people from Mindoro.
 
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Hi everyone,

I'm the national coordinator of Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), the owner of this site.

We will always respect views and opinions posted on this site, as much as we encourage open discussion and intelligent debate on the issue of mining. ATM has its stand on this issue very clearly, and we welcome the comments from those who do not agree with us.

However, we have observed that in the past few days, this forum has gone way beyond acceptable behavior of netiquette.

I will request and strongly encourage all posters to at least follow the following rules:

1. Be civil. Basic courtesy and privacy norms should be practised by posters in this forum. Make your mom at least proud by showing you still remember to be polite, even if you're not required to say "po" or "opo" in every post you make. We wouldn't mind that either, if you do so. Then again, I am assuming here that you're already an adult.

2. Personal attacks will not be tolerated. This also applies to flaming. Just in case you don't know what flaming is, its deliberately insulting or personally ranting against a poster (or a thread) simply because you are losing the arguments.

3. Avoid being anonymous. Since you have enough time to post long comments, you would at least have a few seconds to type even an alias. You also help people conclude that you are not a paid hack from a PR firm by Intex (or any other mining company)

4. Do not shout in the forums. Do not use ALL CAPS in your posts. A single exclamation point should also suffice.

We will observe the forum in the next few days. Should these rules be disregarded, we will transform this into a minimally-moderated forum. We hope we will avoid the situation that we will decide to make this a closely and strictly moderated forum. We value everyone's insights so much.

We'll check up again on this new rules after a short while. Of course, we expect the Intex ECC to be revoked in a few days. In this case, I suspect that the "excitement" in this thread would have died down.

Jaybee Garganera
National Coordinator
ATM
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