By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today
Two candidates for this town’s highest elective position presented their political agenda, hoping to win the people’s votes for the upcoming May 13 elections.
By GILBERT L. PACIFICAR
Davao Today
“We should emulate the life of our lumad heroes who died in the struggle for defending the ancestral domain.” — Datu Monico Cayog, Kalumaran chairperson
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“Maayo pa ang mga batan-on nakahuna-huna og repares aning bukid. Naghinaut ko nga daghan pang sama nila ang mohimo ani (I thank the youth for taking action to reforest our mountains. I hope more will do the same thing),” said Alice Lindasan, one of the residents, noting that nothing of this sort of help had been done to their community before.
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
As a leader, one must know when to attack and when to surrender. A good leader must have principles which must not only to be morally upright, but knows what is right and must have the conviction to stand by it.
By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today
“Out of the 422, only 220 will be the Board of Election Inspectors while the remaining 220 will serve as a support staff to BEIs,” Samsona said in an interview. The said teachers will be deployed to 24 polling precincts and 74 clustered precincts in the town.
By GILBERT L. PACIFICAR
Davao Today
The 18 ethno-linguistic tribes of the island together with other support groups have converged to hold the government of Noynoy Aquino accountable for the destruction of the IPs’ ancestral lands and the many cases of rights abuses against the peasant and lumad communities including extrajudicial killings.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Our country is not in wanting when it comes to revolutionary acts of heroism and deeds of patriotism by the youth for the cause of national freedom and national salvation. They always rise to the occasion whenever the Motherland needs them. It behooves upon the present generation to hearken to what the country has been crying for in these trying times.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today
Walkie Miraña of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, one of the delegates of the mission, said they were living out a scene from a movie. “There were military checkpoints, and they asked people for cedula and ID, and warned us if we go there we are left to fend for ourselves. It’s just like straight from Orapronobis.”
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Parago said that the Garcias have “no real performance or track record to speak of” as well as “no inclination to represent the interests and aspiration of the Lumads, workers, peasants,” among other sectors.
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
The contingents were about to celebrate Earth Day as they scored the continuous large-scale logging in the province even after a log ban was enforced and typhoon Pablo has already ravaged the communities, especially that of indigenous peoples and peasants.
