A high-school student from Davao City National High School finishes her poster which shows an image of a crying Lumad. The student is among those who joined the Literary and Arts Festival sponsored by the Save Our Schools Network held at the University of the Immaculate Conception Wednesday. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
The Save Our Schools Network (SoS) held a Literary and Arts Festival here to “raise public awareness especially among the youth on the lumad’s plight in education and their struggle for self-determination and ancestral domain.”
About 300 activists rallied from Malagamot intersection and picketed in front of the Eastern Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the 43rd commemoration of Martial Law on Monday.
Mayor Lorenzo Gawilan, Jr. said he did not approve of a village captain’s move to close the operations of a community school here for indigenous people pupils.
Around 500 individuals joined the delegation from Davao and North Cotabato for a three-day mercy mission in Barangay White Culaman in Kitaotao, Bukidnon to “give assistance to victims of militarization” in the area.
Children of victims of paramilitary killings in Surigao town urged President Benigno Aquino III to end the killings of indigenous peoples or Lumads.
This year’s Davao Trade Expo 2015 will highlight the aquaculture industry as aquatic resources in the open-ocean are reportedly declining.
Yosie, wife of Emerito Samarca who was killed by members of the militia group Magahat Bagani Force, said he was a good man who did not have enemies.
Friends and relatives of Emerito Samarca, fondly called as Tatay Emok, gather in Guingona Park, Butuan City on Saturday to pay their last respects. Samarca’s remains will be brought to Oraya Cemetery in Libertad town Butuan (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
The number of families evacuating from the towns of Lianga, San Agustin, San Miguel, and Tago in Surigao del Sur continue to rise as the Army continues with its military operations against the New People’s Army.
