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Typhoon Pablo, a far more disastrous repeat of typhoon Sendong

It has already been a year since typhoon Sendong struck and brutally lashed against Northern Mindanao, especially against the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan where about two thousand died due to flashfloods and landslides. The pain and the effects of the devastation wrought by one of the worst storms last [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 4/12/2012

KIO condemns ‘chemical’ attacks

The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) on Monday condemned the violent crackdown by riot police on peaceful protesters, including hundreds of monks, at the Latpadaung Mountain copper mine site in Sagaing Division, and said that it is deeply saddened by the incident. “The KIO cannot accept that the police violently attacked the [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 28/11/2012

150 wounded in Tunisia clashes with police: medic (AFP)

SILIANA, Tunisia — More than 150 people were wounded on Wednesday in a second day of clashes between Tunisian security forces and thousands of protesters in a poor southwestern town, a hospital source told AFP. A doctor at the hospital in Siliana said more than [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 25/11/2012

Greek protesters march against mining projects

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — About 3,000 protesters have marched in the northern Greek city in protest against what they claim are environment-threatening gold mining projects. Riot police barred the protesters’ intended route to the Canadian Consulate on Saturday, but no incidents were reported. Canadian company Eldorado Gold Corp. [...]

1 Dead in protest against Barrick Gold in Peru

One protester was killed and four were injured in a clash between police and a group of peasants at a mine owned by the Peruvian subsidiary of Canada’s Barrick Gold, a police spokesperson told Efe Thursday.

“Four were injured and one person was killed, all civilians” in the protest in the northwestern region of Ancash, [...]

Protesters Battle Greek Police Over Gold Mine

Protesters objecting to plans for a multi-million dollar gold mine in northern Greece’s Halkidiki peninsula clashed with riot police who said they were pelted with firebombs that set a forested area ablaze before being extinguished. Demonstrators said that a Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Member of Parliament who had joined them was hit by [...]

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