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IN DEFENSE. Over a thousand individuals join the 102nd International Women's Day march rally in Davao City Friday. They called for justice to all victims of extrajudicial killings as they vowed to defend their “rights, lives, livelihood and the environment." (davaotoday.com photo by Jandy Ken C. Lisondra)

Today’s View: From flower to fruition

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

Today, the relentless struggles by the current activists and revolutionaries manifest a continuing cultivation of this counter-consciousness.  It is a matter of conviction and commitment of these new and arising forces to let this counter-consciousness bloom to fullness and fruition.  The cultural activist blooms wherever he/she is planted!

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Tension grips ComVal village’s special elections

By DAVAO TODAY

Kontra Daya said the military and police gathered all the voters of clustered precinct 22 on Thursday -- those coming from puroks 1, 4, 9, 10 and 11 -- in the village hall to explain that their presence is for peacekeeping.  “Voters felt otherwise.  Many felt harassed and scared,” Kontra Daya said.

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Councilors-elect for the first political district with Comelec officials. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Dutertes, party mates dominate Davao polls

By DAVAO TODAY

The Comelec said councilors for the second political district will be proclaimed after the replacement of the two compact flash cards from clustered precincts 777 and 753, which have been found defective, shall arrive from their Central Office in Manila. 

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EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT. People from all walks of life exercise their right to suffrage Monday. At the Daniel R. Aguinaldo High School in Davao City, young ones and the once young, including church people, queue in line to cast their votes. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Today’s View: Post-election prattle and cackle

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

And, here is an incontrovertible truth:  All elections in a society under a state of massive poverty is never a democratic process.  It is a vicious illusion, a disgusting insult and a vile assault to human dignity.

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