After the storm, they barricaded; now they get sued

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “Sakit kaayo, biktima na gani mi sa Pablo, gidugangan pa gyud ang among problema,  (It really pains me.  We were already reeling from Pablo. Now, they are giving us more problems),” said Grace Curso, a resident of Monkayo town and one of those charged.  She lost her sibling at the height of Typhoon Pablo last December 4.

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Peace group presses inking of GPH-NDFP social and economic reforms agreement to avert more Sendong, Pablo

Press Release 26 January 2013 The Sowing the Seeds of Peace, a Mindanao peace advocacy group supporting talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front…

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Pinoys slam US military’s “environmental massacre” on the Tubbataha Reef

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “The latest environmental crime committed by the US Navy adds up to other environmental offenses by US imperialism and kowtowed by the Aquino government” -- Rubi del Mundo, spokesman for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Mindanao

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