KAPATAGAN, Lanao del Norte ? Lanao’s most influential political clan ? the Dimaporos ? has thrown its full support behind Team Unity senatorial candidates as the TU ended its final swing to Mindanao a week before Election Day.
MANILA — Team Unity senatorial candidates have vowed to prioritize education in the coming Congress as a way to bridge the gap between the poor and the rich in this country.
Senatorial candidate Tessie Aquino-Oreta said that given the correct and adequate education, the country’s youth would grow as productive individuals who could free themselves from generational poverty.
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MANILA — Perhaps for the first time since the downfall of the Marcos
dictatorship, four veteran alternative and folk musicians who gave
voice to the nationwide resistance against tyranny will perform on the
same stage and sing forgotten yet relevant songs of protest.
The four ? Heber Bartolome , Lolita Carbon, Paul Galang and Jess
Santiago ? will lead performers in Bayan Muna’s miting de avance
Tuesday starting at 6:00 pm at Barangay Tatalon, Araneta cor E.
Rodriguez Avenues in Quezon City.
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MANILA — Some 100 people attended the People’s Forum workshop on water privatization and struggles in Asia organized by Jubilee South-APMDD, together with PSI, NGO Forum and AMNET ? Japan. In the workshop, labor unions and water campaigners from civil society presented their critique on the ADB water privatization agenda and their struggles for water justice.