PHOTO
OF THE WEEK

SERENITY AT RISK
An Aeta mother and her
children head for home in a village in Porac, Pampanga (92 kms. north of
Manila). They are among the victims of the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo
who had to evacuate but were eventually able to return to their homeland.
But the serenity they enjoy in this village is at risk of being disrupted
by large-scale mining operations, in the wake of the return of the
corporation Dizon Mines as Pisumpan Copper Mining Corp. President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo, in a recent mining investors conference, declared the
Philippines as “open for business.”
Photo by Aubrey SC Makilan /
Bulatlat
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