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Remembering Celso Pojas
Slain peasant leader Celso Pojas is revered by poor folk.
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
On that early morning of May 15 this year, Celso Pojas, 45, was sipping a cup of coffee inside the Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas (KMP) office in Bugac, Maa when he got up, told a colleague he had to buy few cigarette sticks and went outside. Nobody had an inkling it was to be their last time to talk to him. As the secretary- general of Farmers's Association of Davao City (FADC), Pojas was preparing to go to Compostela town as part of the support groups to attend to hundreds of Lumads, who were fleeing their homes in Monkayo and Compostela because of military operations there.Roadblocks fail to stop protesting Davao workers
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
On their way to Davao city, workers from the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte braved road inspections, 'surprise checkpoints' before they were able to join the Labor Day rally to express their demands for the P125 across-the-board wage increase, for government to bring down prices of basic commodities, including rice.Military operations displace Ata Manobo families
TUCKED-IN. Using a piece of cloth slung to their bodies, lumad women swaddle their young ones, tucking them close to their bodies as they walk. Ata-Manobo women and children are among those displaced by the relentless military operations in Talaingod. Many of the residents were accused of being guerrillas. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
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