National minorities put crime scene yellow tape on mining firms’ gates
National minorities put crime scene yellow tape on mining firms’ gates
LAKBAYAN 2016 marchers from indigenous communities and their supporters from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao converge in Manila to protest militarization and demand justice and peace.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO FROM BICOL TODAY
By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Some 400 members of indigenous people’s groups from Northern Luzon trooped to Makati for a series of picket protests on their first morning in the capital this Thursday, October 13.
With many of them in their traditional attire, they recounted their situation which they said the mining and energy companies have pushed to perilous points. They chanted their calls at the entrances to the headquarters of mining and energy companies operating in or near their ancestral domain. They interspersed these with their traditional music and dance.
Also, across the entrances of buildings where Lepanto and Oceania Gold hold offices, they unrolled yellow police tape or crime scene tape.
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