Saying that their grievances were “unheard and neglected” by the national government, some 300 indigenous people, peasants, environment advocates and human rights group will travel to Manila Thursday in an activity dubbed "Manilakbayan."
University of the Philippines in Mindanao (UPMin) students lighted candles at UP oblation circle Tuesday to “condemn the government’s incompetence in addressing the needs of the victims of typhoon Yolanda.”
On November 8, survivors all over the country marched the street from Tacloban Convention Center up to Rizal Avenue. Muddied cultural workers from northern Samar posed in a streetplay.
Over 20,000 survivors from different man-made and natural calamities gathered in the city by way of an ecumenical prayer and march rally at the Rizal avenue to mark the commemoration of 1st year anniversary of Supertyphoon Yolanda last November 8.
Police nabbed a fugitive killer here Tuesday evening a week after he was charged of two counts of murder.