League of Filipino Students (LFS) activists hung red streamers at the facade of the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City to commemorate the group’s 37th founding day, timed with the infamous declaration of Martial Law in 1972. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Union workers from Compostela Valley Province rallied outside the entrance of the Armed Forces’ Eastern Mindanao Command criticizing alleged military harassment on their leaders. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Members of Lumad group Karadyawan hold a ritual called “Panubadtubad” to urge armed paramilitary fanatics led by Datu Laris Mansaloon to stop the harassments in Brgy. Gupitan, Kapalong, Davao del Norte. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
President Benigno Aquino III commends business groups and local officials during the launch of the Mindanao Inclusive Agribusiness Program of the Philippine Business for Social Progress and Mindanao Development Authority at SMX Convention Center Lanang last Monday. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A container van carrying toxic chemical fell off the truck and onto the road fronting the Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Elementary School. School officials called off classes to keep school children away from the pungent fume, as health and rescue personnel work out a containment against the effect of the formic acid, a chemical used to harden rubber. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Globe telecommunications partners with the Foundation for the Philippine Environment, donating mobile phones, SIM cards and insurance policies to 42 volunteer forest guards and local watershed monitoring, including barangay officials to guard biodiversity initiatives in the Panigan-Tamugan watershed. The area is being tapped of its pristine surface water from the Tamugan River for Davao City’s northeastern barangays and to relax extraction of water from the underground aquifers. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A child catches up with school studies while tending to their little sidewalk store along Palma Gil Street in downtown Davao City. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
The difficult chess game seems easy for these young tots who take it as a pastime away from school along Claveria Street, Davao City. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
League of Filipino Student spokesperson Juno Vegas slammed Captain Nathaniel Morales of the 10th Infantry Division- AFP for tagging members of progressive organizations as communists.(PAce Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Instead of freezing with icy water, various progressive organisations poured blood in their version of Ice Bucket Challenge, to raise attention over the impact of the military’s counter-insurgency operations on human rights.
