Philippine community blocks entry of large mining firm

Intercontinental Cry :The community of Anislagan on the island of Mindanao has successfully blocked the Philex mining company from entering their lands. According to a press release from the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan (LRC-CdO), nearly the entire community gathered to greet Philex, the largest mining firm in the Philippines, with a makeshift checkpoint they put together, on January 11, 2010. The company was planning to commence work on a “livelihood training center.” However, “The Philex 6-vehicle convoy backed out after they failed to pass through the thousand residents of Anislagan,” states the LRC-CdO. To reinforce the checkpoint, the community formed into a human a human barricade, leaving the company with nowhere else to go
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