NEA’s bid to reclaim Daneco prelude to private take-over, groups say

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Sheena Duazo, spokesperson of the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan)-Southern Mindanao, said once Daneco falls into the hands of a private corporation, its main concern would no longer be in the service to its consumers “but for business and profit.” 

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Youth, lawmakers lament House’s approval of K+12 on final reading

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “The plan for K+12 is not to provide higher education opportunities to the youth, but merely to create an army of semi-skilled labor for immediate employment abroad. It’s being designed to develop immediately employable youth locally for them to become underpaid, or worse, abused workers in a foreign land.” -- Atty. Leah Librado-Yap, Davao City First District Councilor

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Letters from Czechoslovakia: Davao students lament education crisis

By PAUL RANDY P. GUMANAO Davao Today According to Palma Gil, the students’ resistance has inspired the establishment of an anti-Nazi students’ coalition in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere.  Now, the commemoration is essentially an observance of the continued contribution of student activism in various reforms in the educational system.

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Groups decry daily brown-outs, government’s futile power policies

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today “It’s very ironic that Kidapawan City and the rest of the province continue to suffer from rotational brown-outs when we host two Mt. Apo geothermal plants that have the combined capacity of 104 MW,” said  Ruby Padilla-Sison of the Makabayan Peoples Coalition.

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