Police prevent anti-mining advocates from staging rally in Cagayan By Ted Boehnert 05/01/2011

Police prevent anti-mining advocates from staging rally in Cagayan

By Ted Boehnert 05/01/2011
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – A scheduled anti-mining rally in Gonzaga town, Cagayan was aborted yesterday to prevent possible violence as tensions flared up between anti-mining advocates and the town’s policemen who said that the rally had no permit.

Rochelle Garma, an employee of the Catholic-run Saint Anthony’s Academy of Gonzaga town and one of the rally organizers, said tension was created after police in Gonzaga town swooped down on the school where the anti-mining rally participants were gathering around 6 a.m.

Garma, also the secretary of the Gonzaga Alliance for Environmental Protection and Preservation, said the police were insisting on stopping the rally, stressing that the organizers had not secured a permit..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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