Leticia Lumakan, 51, of Magpet, North Cotabato faints under the heat of the sun while lining up with other victims of Martial Law, to file her compensation claim. This happened outside the Bankerohan gymnasium at 11:30 in the morning, but she refuses to get treatment from 911 medical team, so she will not miss her turn in the claims board. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
The militant Kilusang Mayo Uno filed a case at the National Labor Relations Commission regarding the illegal dismissal of Darwin Berdera, Donald Berdera and Carl Anthony Olalo, who is the president of Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa Masters Port Services, Inc. Fifty three (53) more workers of Masters Port Services, Inc. are said to face the same fate. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Construction workers scale the 12-storey building of the Ateneo de Davao University. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Environmentalists discuss the impact of coal-fired power plants in a conference spearheaded by the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice at the Ateneo De Davao University. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Gerry Arances, the National Coordinator of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, asserts there will be no power crisis if the government does not sell the Agus Pulangi to the private sector and if it uses the dam’s revenues for its rehabilitation. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Iraq war veteran Ramon Daniel Mejia is now preaching against the war as he joins Fil-am activists under the North American-Philippine Solidarity Affairs, a group that is currently in Mindanao for a peace mission.(Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Activists and other groups who held a “People’s Sona (state of the nation address) hours before President Benigno Simeon Aquino III gave his own fifth Sona. The groups said “Aquino’s blunders in the four years of being in office is enough grounds to call for his ouster.”
Davao Today asked Davaoeños if they had felt the development growth that President Benigno Aquino III said was brought by the Disbursement Acceleration Program. Here are their answers.
Victims of alleged illegal recruitment seek support from local office of Migrante Davao as they file complaint with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration in Davao City. The 27 victims are residents of Lupon, Davao Oriental who claimed they already gave P40,000 to P100,000 to a Korean national and his Filipino to facilitate their job placement to what appeared to be non-existing jobs in South Korea. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Kilusang Mayo Uno spokesperson Romulado Basilio discusses the plight of the workers in the militant unions’ version of State of the Workers Address. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
