By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today While the women in the labor force seethe under the Aquino administration, the peasant women feel no better. In fact they have long been disgruntled over what they call a continuing apathy of Aquino administration on their rights and interests.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “The case is very weak and was only filed to make it appear that PNoy is running after GMA but actually it is accommodating the hated (former) president. Truth to tell, PNoy is not serious in making GMA and her cohorts accountable for their crimes against the Filipino people.” -- Atty. Carlos Zarate, Bayan Muna Vice-President for Mindanao.
Photos by MEDEL V. HERNANI, ACE R. MORANDANTE & TYRONE A. VELEZ Text by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Assessing Aquino’s performance since 2012, various sectors and organizations criticized his administration on different issues, thus, giving him a “failing mark.” They said, regional issues “depict the worsening plight of workers, farmers, the urban poor, consumers, and intensified threat to the environment.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Bearing banners and placards, they converged in Lanao Village before they stormed various government agencies, venting out their disgust over Aquino’s “priority programs and projects” which they blame for the people’s continuing suffering.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today While many of the members of the Congress have their attire haute couture and not a few designed by the country’s top fashion (read: expensive) designers like Pitoy Moreno , nationalist lawmakers like Ilagan opted to stay grounded just like the people she vowed to serve.