DILIMAN, Quezon City – A Friday night of cultural performances was prepared by the lumad delegates of the human rights…
Lumads who marched from Mindanao and have converged here picketed at the national office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples to demand its closure for alleged failure to solve Lumad killings in Mindanao.
The Davao Light and Power company has implemented two-hour rotating power interruptions after the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) imposed a Mindanao-wide deficit due to the emergency shutdown of two major power plants in Mindanao.
Delegates of the human rights caravan, Manilakbayan from Mindanao marched from their camp inside the University of the Philippines Diliman to the national office of the Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday morning to condemn the agency’s “slow response” on the investigation of the cases of Lumad killings in Mindanao.
Banana workers from different Sumifru packing plants in Compostela Valley stage a rally to support their colleagues in the company’s cold storage facility who mounted a protest over the fruit giant’s refusal to enter into a new collective bargaining agreement.
Ariel Casilao, Anakpawis Partylist first nominee, said that accusing the Lumads and their supporters as communists or NPAs “is the reason why there are illegal detention, massacres and killings in Mindanao”.
Police authorities here will be launching massive operations targeting drug pushers after the 48 hours ultimatum given by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Monday.
The New People’s Army has issued an open letter requesting Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to facilitate the turnover of P25,000 which was found during the capture of Loreto town mayor Dario Otaza to his family.
A fun ride for the environment will be attended by cyclists from Davao and other nearby provinces will join in this year’s celebration of the 2nd National Bicycle Day on November 22.
Kitaotao town mayor Lorenzo Gawilan Jr., urged the filing of administrative charges against the chief of Barangay White Culaman who closed down a Lumad school last Friday.
