Ka Oris: Large-scale mining now Mindanao’s ‘environment destroyer’

Posted: July 28th, 2012 | Filed under: MindaNews, Multimedia | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Jorge Madlos says logging is already a “sunset industry” and the mining industry is now taking its place in destroying the island’s environment.

 

Large-scale mining now Mindanao’s ‘environment destroyer’

SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN MINDANAO (MindaNews/ 27 July)– The threat to Mindanao’s environment is no longer illegal logging but large-scale mining operations, National Democratic Front-Mindanao spokesperson Jorge Madlos said. [ Read Story]



Video: Jorge Madlos on PNoy’s SONA

Posted: July 27th, 2012 | Filed under: MindaNews, Multimedia | Tags: , , , , , , |

An interview with NDFP-Mindanao spokesperson Jorge Madlos, aka Ka Oris, inside a guerilla base somewhere in Northern Mindanao. Ka Oris sneers PNoy’s third SONA on July 23, 2012.

 

Madlos sneers at Aquino’s SONA

SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN MINDANAO (MindaNews/25 July)– “President Benigno C. Aquino III’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) ran for about one hour and 28 minutes. Of the three SONAs he delivered, this one is the longest. But this one, too, has the shortest words for land reform and national industrialization.” [Read Story]



Mindanews: Watching SONA from the Jungle

Posted: July 26th, 2012 | Filed under: MindaNews | Tags: , , , |

SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN MINDANAO (MindaNews/25 July) – Using an improvised television (TV) tuner, a laptop and mobile phones with TV, New People’s Army (NPA) rebels monitored from their guerilla base on Monday the third State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno C. Aquino III. Read More »