International Solidarity Mission in Nueva Viscaya (2008)

International and national and delegates from church, health, youth, peasant, scientists, indigenous peoples (IP) and environmental groups showed support to the anti-large-scale mining campaign of Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya through a three-day International Solidarity Mission (ISM). The delegates of the ISM avow to gather strong support from other sectors and organizations, both here and abroad.

On December 7-8, 2008, the ISM team visited the targeted expansion areas of Didipio gold-copper mining project of Australian-owned OceanaGold, which are Barangay Alimit and Malabing, of the Municipality of Kasibu. The ISM focused on documenting and validating the economic, social and cultural violations of the mining company and the environmental and mining-related issues in the target communities. At the same time, the ISM aimed to provide concrete support to the local struggle of the communities.

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• 2008
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• church

[illuddulli]

Imagine they are building a house worth P10,000 and asking the company to pay it back for P200,000. Now tell me who is the evil ones here. And yet the NGO's are tolerating this kind of attitude from the local people. Another issue here is that the anti-mining people are against the extraction of minerals while they are patronizing the products of mining such as cars, jewelries, celphone, computers, cements, clothes, etc. Almost all of our basic needs nowadays are products of mining.

[illuddulli]

Anti-mining people are just thinking about their funds. They don't want progress to the community. I know the real story in Didipio. At first there are no houses built surrounding the deposit. However, when the local people found out that the company is paying for infrastructures built that is when they started to build a lot of houses surrounding the area. For the record, no one ever lived in the house that they are building. They just put that house so that the company can pay them money.