NGOs Take Campaigns to the Internet
The Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center- Kasama sa Kailakasan (LRC-KsK) Friends of the Earth Philippines Davao Office has launched two websites to elevate into the cyberspace their campaign against…
Davao Lawyers Kick GMA?s Con-Ass
CON-ASSES Enraged lawyers show how they feel about the plan, called Constituent Assembly or Con-Ass, to change the Constitution without the concurrence of the Senate. “There could never be a meaningful Charter change if Arroyo is not ousted,” they said. (davaotoday.com photo by Germelina A. Lacorte)
The different lawyers groups in Davao City have banded together to defy the Arroyo administration?s attempt to change the Constitution through questionable means. Davao Today?s Germelina A. Lacorte reports.
KMU Denounces DOLE-Southern Mindanao for Anti-Worker Stance
KMU-SMR appalled by DOLE?s pronouncements on state of workers, unionism in Southern Mindanao
Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region derided yersterday?s pronouncements made by the Department of Labor and Employment XI regarding the state of workers and unionism in the region. DOLE XI, as part of its anniversary celebration, divulged during yesterday morning?s press conference at the Philippine Information Agency that 74% of companies in Davao have complied with the minimum wage mandate. The agency also reported on the decline of unionism in Southern Mindanao.
Romualdo Basilio, chairman of the militant labor center, said that DOLE XI has again shed its true colors as lowly capitalist mouthpiece in pushing workers further to privation and trampling on their constitutionally-guaranteed rights to form unions. ?It is very disgusting for this government agency to assume a pro-worker stand when all along they look for unbelievable excuses to justify the non-implementation of the miniscule minimum wage.? He said that the 74% compliance of the minimum wage law among Davao region?s industrial and agricultural companies is not something to be proud of.
Davao City Hall Slammed for ‘Sell-Out,’ ‘Anti-People’ Report on Aerial-Spray Ban
The environment group Interface Development Interventions Inc. has criticized City Hall’s recommendations on aerial spraying, calling it a sellout. Below is the group’s statement:
An environmental NGO criticized the report of Eng. Luis Jacinto, city planning coordinator, on the controversial proposal to ban aerial spraying in Davao City branding it as a ?sell-out that intentionally omitted glaring facts to come up with recommendations tailored to favor only banana corporations.?
Digital Dreams
Davao Today contributor Alberto P. Egot Jr. and his team at Durian Cinema are some of the city?s ?guerilla filmmakers.? Here, he tells us what it was like to make a film for the first time.
An exciting experiment: Members of the Durian Cinema team shooting a Badjao community in Davao. (Photo courtesy of Durian Cinema)