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Japanese-Filipino kids welcome new law o...
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By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
DAVAO CITY James Akiyama, 20, has regularly been receiving support money from his Japanese father since he was born.
But under the old law of Japan, Japanese Filipino children like him could never become full-fledged Japanese citizens because their parents never...
Photos: Stop state terrorism!...
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STOP STATE TERRORISM! Members of the militant organization Bayan Muna stage a picket outside Lispher Inn in Juna Subdivision on Tuesday, August 26, during the second-day of the Congressional inquiry on extra-judicial killing conducted by the House committee on human rights. Congressman Lorenzo Taada...
Lumad leader fears for his life...
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By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
Davao City — Unlike other political activists around him who were critical of the government, Kerlan Fanagel, the secretary general of the indigenous peoples’ group Pasaka, never experienced ever receiving death threats through text messages before.
But what...
US ambassador Kenney is lying about us i...
US ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney is blatantly lying by claiming that she was merely invited to witness the aborted signing of the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD), that she was ignorant of its content and that the US government had nothing to do with the GRP-MILF peace...
Towards a pro-Filipino and pro-people Mi...
To our comrades in Kamp (Kapisanan ng Mamayang Katutubo ng Pilipinas), our compatriot indigenous peoples from north to south, the Center for Environmental Concerns, guests and observers, warmest militant greetings from Bayan Muna!
During the Marcos dictatorship, the joke used to be that Ferdinand and Imelda...
PNP targets at least 21 personnel per st...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is bent to have 21 personnel as minimum requirement for every police station.
This is part of the integrated transformation program that the agency has started implementing to improve the efficiency of the police force.
Police deputy director general Jesus Verzosa said...
No military offensives in Siargao during...
The guerilla platoons of the New People’s Army (NPA) under the Pulang Diwata Command-Bagong Hukbong Bayan in north eastern Mindanao region will not launch military offensives in the islands of Siargao, including the surfing resorts in the ensuing days and especially during the fiesta of General Luna...
NDF-southern Mindanao warns vs barangay...
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The National Democratic Front- southern Mindanao scoffs at the so-called barangay defense system (BDS) as a misnomer because, contrary to its ballyhooed raison d’ etre, it will not protect communities but will only pave the way for graver human rights violations. This, as the Task Force Davao installs...
NDF: DCWD-Hedcor deal will pave way to w...
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The National Democratic Front (NDF) in southern Mindanao cautioned the public against the collusion of the Aboitiz-owned Hedcor Tamugan Incorporated (HTI) and the state-owned Davao City Water District (DCWD) as the two entities gear up for a so-called “win-win” solution to operate and exploit the...
Lawyers condemn use of MOA and federalis...
Now it is very clear. The solicitor general’s motion informing the Supreme Court of the Arroyo government’s decision not to sign the MOA with the MILF “due to changed circumstances” is one more proof that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo only used the MOA as a means to launch her...
Conditional amnesty given to retired arm...
The Merardo Arce Command-New People’s Army has granted a conditional amnesty to retired M/Sgt. Jose Manero and ordered his immediate release from custodial detention by the 1st Pulang Bagani Company-NPA.
This grant of conditional amnesty is based on his admission of guilt and issuance of a public...
CA hit for failure to decide on aerial s...
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The coalition Mamamayan Ayaw sa Aerial Spraying (Maas) was appalled over the failure of the court of appeals (CA) to decide on the case that questioned the constitutionality of Davao City ordinance that banned aerial spraying in banana plantations.
The CA’s branch 21, formerly branch 22, was supposed...
Bayan Muna urges GRP, MILF to resume tal...
Bayan Muna party list today urged the government (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to immediately resume the peace talks with the respect for human rights and international humanitarian law on top of the agenda.
“Even as both panels address the problems caused by the goverment’s...
Arroyo’s policy shift in peace neg...
Mrs. Arroyo’s policy-shift in her administration’s peace negotiations to ‘disarmament, demobilization, and rehabilitation’ will spell more disaster than bring about peace especially in Mindanao.
Already, Malacaang has hinted at reneging on its memorandum of agreement on ancestral...
Arroyo wants lasting reign, not lasting ...
The Initiatives for Peace in Mindanao (InPeace) questions and condemns in strongest President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s proposal for charter change which is meant to extend her stay in power beyond 2010, rather than solve the Moro problem in Mindanao.
The group questions the sincerity of Mrs. Arroyo...
Arroyo is chief Bangsamoro butcher...
Rise up against Arroyo war machine – KMU
“Defend every inch of our liberties and democratic rights from Arroyo.”
This was the statement of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) secretary general Wilson Baldonaza against Arroyo’s ‘defend every inch of Philippine territory from MILF (Moro...
Arroyo escalates brutal campaign of supp...
In line with her brutal policy of suppressing the revolutionary forces of the people, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has apparently closed the door to peace negotiations by declaring that she would negotiate with ‘communities’ rather than with the armed revolutionary movements like the National...
AFP Arrested Two Civilians, not NPAs, in...
Fascist troops under the 1003rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) arrested two civilians last July 31 and misrepresented them as members of the New People’s Army (NPA.
Arnel Suminggel and Boyen Suminggel were residents of sitio Kapatagan, Barangay Gupitan in Kapalong,Davao del...
NPAs release Manero on humanitarian grou...
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By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
Davao City– The Communist New People’s Army released former army sergeant Jose Manero, a former Ilaga leader and brother of released priest killer Norberto Manero, after three months in captivity.
The rebels, who took Manero during the May 11 raid in a Calinan...
MOA on ancestral domain: It’s not ...
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08 11th, 2008 |
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By the Policy Study, Publication and Advocacy (PSPA) Program
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
The Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) on Ancestral Domain
between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) does not automatically bind the Arroyo
government to honor the...
Quiapo and Makati: Tale of two cities...
By Germelina Lacorte
Davao Today
Along the dirty side street, a walk away from Quiapo church, three teenage boys huddled over a cart of pomelo, cigarette in their hands.
“Sweet pomelos,” the youngest one, Allan, shouted, putting the cigarette into his mouth.
“How much?” a woman...
15B additional investments to Davao Sur ...
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08 11th, 2008 |
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Four new big investments will come to Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur this year, with the biggest project worth about 15 billion pesos.
In an interview with PIA, mayor Joel Ray Lopez said the biggest investor is the shipyard project of Mitsubishi.
The three other investments are the Jetty Oil depo and plant, a...
Suara calls on PGMA to stop the Pinols f...
Suara Bangsamoro calls on the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to stop North Cotabato representative Ben Pinol and Vice-Governor Emmanuel Pinol from stirring people in their province by calling on them to arm against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Suara Bangsamoro national president Amirah Ali...
Suara Bangsamoro to seek UN rapporteur i...
Cotabato City-A Mindanao-based Moro group lambasted Makati representative Teodoro Locsin’s privilege speech about the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity made at the House of Representative last August 5. The group said they will submit a complaint against Locsin at the office of Dodou Diene, United...
NDF to discuss workers’ complaints...
The National Democratic Front (NDF) in southern Mindanao has received the complaints filed by the Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions (RCTU) in southern Mindanao against the Stanfilco-Dole Philippines, Lapanday, Fraklin Baker and the Davao City Water District (DCWD) for acts tantamount to economic sabotage...
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