Philippines: Stop The Divide, Let The B’laans Decide

Philippines: Stop The Divide, Let The B’laans Decide   The Fact-Finding/Solidarity Mission organized by Social Action Center of Marbel and the Tampakan Forum is calling on the PNoy Administration to immediately resolve the brewing conflict among the B’laan tribe in view of the rift created by the aggressive push of SMI to pursue its mining project in Tampakan despite the denial of SMI’s application for Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC).   The fact-finding mission we conducted...

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