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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.?

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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.

Digital Dreams An exciting experiment: Members of the Durian Cinema team shooting a Badjao community in Davao. (Photo courtesy of Durian Cinema)

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Davao’s Nograles Taking Heat for Role in ‘Tyrannical’ Cha-Cha Attempt

Rep. Prospero Nograles Sneaky Boy: Nograles plays a key role in “the massacre of the Constitution.” (photo from www.nograles.net)

House majority floorleader Rep. Prospero Nograles of Davao City has been getting a lot of flak (here, here, here, and here) for his key role in the push for charter change and what has been routinely described this week as a “massacre of the Constitution” in the Philippine Congress, which Nograles and his partymates did — tyrannically, according to many — even while the country was still shell-shocked by the effects of typhoon Reming and other concerns. As the country hosts the 12th Asean Summit in Cebu, and as the people’s attention is focused on the event, Arroyo’s men in Congress have vowed that they will not stop the Cha-cha train.

Activists protesting in front of Nograles's office in Davao Activists protest in front of Nograles’s office in Davao City on Friday.

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