Students marched through universities to protest state budget cuts and high cost of education. Workers held a rally in a strike camp to demand job security. Farmers held a picket at a military headquarters to decry militarization and abuses. The rallies culminated with a burning of Pres. Aquino’s effigy in a gathering at the city’s Rizal Park in the afternoon.
by Earl O. Condeza, Cheryll D. Fiel, John Rizle L. Saligumba, Ace R. Morandante, Tyrone A. Velez Davao Today DAVAO…
The Save Daneco Movement (SADAMO) said they are mobilizing 1,000 members to oppose a law signed by President Benigno Aquino III that allows the National Electrification Administration (NEA) to take over DANECO and paves the way for the latter’s privatization.
In separate statements, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Conference on Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (ICCHRP) called Aquino to act on extrajudicial killings, and abuses brought by mining and militarization in communities.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
The Rotto Fresh International Traders, a Cavendish banana plantation company in Compostela, Compostela Valley allegedly detained Redubla on suspicion that he helped New People’s Army guerillas in burning the company’s backhoe last July 13.
Can drones or the eye in the sky help save our dwindling forests?
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“There is no product to export (once) we’ll be flooded with (ASEAN products); all the farmers will be jobless here,” said Phil Export XI executive director Conrado T. Hernaez in a press conference at Marco Polo Hotel Wednesday.
By TYRONE A. VELEZ
Davao Today
“My taxes are sent (here) for military aid. Money should build roads, should be given to health care, decent things for the people, not military aid,” says Ron Gochez of Union del Barro, Los Angeles.
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By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
For what really is this goddamn pork barrel? Why is this a modus vivendi in our legislative system, first of all?
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said during the IACAT advocacy campaign launch, he would confront human trafficking with the same intensity as that of drug trafficking cases. “In my book, I have placed illegal recruiters on the level of drug traffickers. It has the same effect to society.”
