Hundreds of Ata-Manobos from Talaingod, Davao del Norte marched at the office of logging firm Alcantara & Sons in Lanang, Davao City Wednesday to protest the company’s Integrated Forest Management Agreement, which they said is a commercial logging venture encroaching their ancestral domain. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
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Birang ug uban pang sugilanon sa mga Bayaning Lumad sa Mindanao assumes the dual function of a school children’s book and a pastime for adult readers interested in humble beginnings, native birth, rituals and assaults. The color and realism of indigenous culture is interspersed in the universal concepts of freedom, valor, independence and patriotism—themes that are lost in the commercial pageantry and crass spectacle of Philippine indigenous festivals.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
By JOHN RIZLE SALIGUMBA
Small-scale miners grapple with the impact of landslides and the government’s demolition order.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
[slideshow=7] TWO SIDES. A nun surveys the devastation in sitio Tibasak that was swept with water from the overflowing Kalakala…
[slideshow=6] RAVAGES. Typhoon Sendong causes this much ruins when it hit Cagayan de Oro, December 16. The damaged caused by…
[slideshow=5] MOST WANTED. Cooking pots are most wanted by families housed in various evacuation centers in Cagayan de Oro City….
ONE LIGHT. A little girl holds her lit candle during the candle lighting activity in Isla Delta, Barangay Consolacion, Cagayan…
[slideshow=4] FOR CAGAYAN DE ORO. Members of various organizations light candles in Isla Delta, a community in the riverbank hit…
