Indigenous Peoples Unite Against Canadian Mining Company in Palawan http://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-peoples-unite-against-mining-in-palawan/

Approval of this FTAA application will allow the Canadian mining firm MBMI and its Philippine Partners to substantially increase exploration activities and to progress toward full-scale nickel operations in the municipalities of Rizal, Bataraza, and Narra...In response to the news--and the ongoing incursion of mining developments in Palawan--more than 500 Indigenous Peoples have arranged to hold a[n]...anti-mining rally on 7 June, 2010.