Action against demolition in Marikina. Residents of Agora, Barangay Santo Niño, Marikina City stopped the planned demolition of their community on October 15. They launched a protest camp out on October 14. More than 53 urban poor families are under threat of being displaced from the community despite having lived there for over 40 years. The protest compelled the local government to promise relocation for the affected residents.

Barricade in Benguet. Around 400 residents from two barangays in Mankayan, Benguet barricaded on October 13 against the intrusion of Crescent Mining and Development Corporation into their ancestral land. This also marked the formal establishment of the alliance No Mines Movement of Guinaoang and Bulalacao.

Anti-mining protest in Dupax del Norte, NV. Since September 17, residents of Barangay Bitnong in Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya have set up a barricade against Woggle Corporation. Tension between the residents and the company escalated when a provincial court on October 14 issued a Temporary Restraining Order against the barricade. Police dismantled the barricade on October 16 and arrested three residents. They were immediately released afterward.

Residents, churches, groups, and individuals widely condemned the police violence. They held a caravan and protest at the Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Capitol on October 20 to denounce the inaction of the local government. Kalikasan PNE also staged a protest on the same day in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

Anakbayan United Kingdom and other national democratic organizations in the UK are set to hold a protest on October 21 at the Metals Exploration PLC Office in London to denounce the company’s environmental plunder.