THE Municipality of San Juan in Batangas celebrated the first-ever Araw ng Pagkakaisa para sa Kalikasan.
Municipal Ordinance 002, series of 2024 proclaims that every October 22 will commemorate the event when nine out of 10 San Juan residents voted to protect their town from the construction of a pollutive copper smelter and fertilizer complex in a diocesan poll in the '70s.Barako Publishing successfully lobbied for the ordinance in 2023 as it produced and published the legacy book titled 'Barako 77: The Story of Environmental Activism in San Juan , Batangas in 2024.
'In partnership with the Department of Education , the Boy Scouts of the Philippines and the Municipal Environment and National Resources Office , Barako Publishing hosted over 400 scouts and scouters from the San Juan East and West district public schools in 'Protektadong Kalikasan, Protektadong Kinabukasan' a day camporee at Barangay Imelda, the location where a bugang lason copper smelter was set to be constructed.
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