Car Aga Watch Brochure

CARAGA WATCH

Education Work

Promotion and Media

Relations Work

Documentation and Re-

search Work

Alliance Building and

Networking

Organization Building

and Finance Work

Mobilization

FOR THE DEFENSE AND

PROTECTION OF THE

ENVIRONMENT FOR THE

NEXT GENERATION

Tel. No. (085)3416135 CP No. 09071009904

E-mail: [email protected]

Creatively use all venues for the promotion of our causes. All individual & organizational members are encouraged to independently pursue our advocacy through:

CONVENORS

Rt. Rev. Denny Dapitan Bishop, Iglesia Filipina Independiente

Diocese of Agusan & Surigao Sur

Sr. Anecita Oser, MSM Superior General, MSM

Rev. Corazon Torralba Conference Minister

United Church of Christ in the Philippines-Agusan District Conference

Rev. Fr. Emi Dumadag Parish Priest

Rev. Fr. Rey Maldo, MSC Parish Priest

Sr. Helen Makiling, MSM Superintendent for Schools, MSM

Sr. Felicity Boy, OSB Benedictines for Peace

Greggo Uriarte Executive Director, Surigao del Norte

NGO Coalition for Development

Dr. Naty Castro Head of Secretariat, Caraga Watch

MSM-Indigenous Peoples Mission

Caraga Watch Regional Secretariat Office Pareja Subdivision, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte

Research and development must focus on harnessing a mineral industry that is more economically efficient and less environmentally destructive.

Mining operation and development at all times must guarantee environmental protection and safety.

We recognize the right of communities to

uphold their right to a sustainable and

productive environment.

We recognize the right of national

minorities, especially the lumad in the

Caraga region, to self-determination

through their genuine participation in

determining the use of and benefit from

the resources in their ancestral domain.

We actively support and join the initiatives of the organized and progressive peasant and lumad communities and other sectors of society in the Caraga region who aim to defend and protect the national patrimony, ancestral lands and the environment.

CARAGA WATCH

Advance the struggle of peasant and lumad communities and the entire Filipino people to a biologically diverse and ecologically sustainable and productive environment against foreign plunder of our ancestral lands and national patrimony!

Nationalize the mining industry! Protect the environment! Protect

our forests, land and water for the next generation!

Ensure an environmentally safe and ecologically sound development program, especially in the mining and agricultural sectors! Enforce strict compliance of government and industries to environmental conventions, laws and standards of practice!

Expose the anti-people character of the present concept and implementation of investment defense forces! Stop the recruitment of private armed security groups!

Strengthen our unity to support the lumads struggle for the recognition of their right to self-determination and protection of the ancestral land!

Stop the recruitment to the Task Force Gantangan Bagani Force and other paramilitary groups!

Scrap the Mining Act of 1995! Scrap the IPRA!

An alliance of

organizations,

groups and

individuals united

on the issue of

defending

ancestral lands

and national

patrimony

against the

plunder and

destruction

wrought by

foreign and local

big mining and

other resource extraction businesses

and the protection of the environment

for the next generation.

We actively lobby for the repeal of the

Mining Act of 1995 and the IPRA.

Caraga Watch advocates that::

Mining industry must be nationalized and benefit the broadest masses of Filipinos.

Mineral production & development should help in modernizing agriculture within the framework of genuine agrarian reform.

Mining development shall be programmed in accordance with the availability of resources, without sacrificing the capability and well-being of the people and the environment.

CALLS AND COURSES

OF ACTION