PHILIPPINES IS NOT FOR SALE. Davao City militants protest against US intervention in time of the 114th Philippine independence celebration, Tuesday. The woman whose hands are chained and wearing a Philippine flag-like dress symbolizes the country “under control of the Imperialist US.” (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Philippine independence, according to Davaoeños
By LEIGH E. DALUGDOG, CHERYLL D. FIEL, JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA, MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN & TYRONE A. VELEZ Davao Today More than a century after Spanish colonization and almost seven decades after American colonization, we ask, is the Philippines truly free and sovereign? Davao Today collected the thoughts of Davaoeños, Philippine-based and not.