Today is World Environment Day 2018. Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), a coalition of environmental organizations, civil society groups, and mining-affected communities, took the streets of the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in protest of DENR Sec. Roy Cimatu’s blatant inaction to the destructive effects of mining to the ecology and the people. Victims of mining – displaced communities, harassed anti-mining activists, poisoned locals due to toxic mine wast

Palo, Leyte Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) is a coalition of organizations and groups that collectively challenge the aggressive promotion of large-scale mining in the Philippines. We demand the scrapping of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 and the enactment of the Alternative Minerals Management Bill or AMMB. In behalf of the mining-affected communities in Leyte and Eastern Samar, we are here to support SALAKYAG and its calls. Decades of mining in the Philippines proved that in