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.”
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
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.
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.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today In the first place, the ‘artificial crisis,’ according to Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Mindanao, was a result of the government’s sellout of two diesel-powered power barges in the island, the power barge No. 117 in Nasipit town, Agusan del Norte and No. 118 in Maco, Compostela Valley, to the Aboitiz-owned Therma Marine Incorporated. These power barges have a combined 200-MW generation capacity.