Mining and Mindanao: what fate awaits communities?
September 21, 2007 – 2:00 amA friend Penelope Sanz, an anthropologist and a part-time journalist, has gone deep into both probing mining communities and met with mining firms.
I think she has an extensive and intensive field work on mining in Mindanao. I have always wanted to cover communities as there are both interesting and shocking stories to tell from the mouths of people there.
She has written on how the mining industry has affected human rights and the lives in general of the indigenous peoples. But most newspapers were not able to publish it for some reasons.
So when I found some of her articles from old files I decided to post them here.
Mining and Mindanao: what fate awaits the communities?
By Penelope C. Sanz/MindaNews
(1st of three parts)
MAKATI CITY — Inside the ballroom of the New World Renaissance Hotel on February 3, some 200 men in business suits from Australia, Canada, China, United States and Russia […]
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