A leader of a small-scale miners group complained that Army troops harassed him to keep him out of a public consultation on open-pit mining operations.
University of the Philippines Mindanao professors Myfel Paluga and Andrea Ragragio (middle) are joined by a co-teacher and activists in exposing alleged intelligence agents tailing them from their research work in General Santos City all the way to Davao City last Saturday. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
The existence of any entity in this world is inherently invested with a purpose or function—what we call its reason for being. It’s true to natural things as to human creations. That which ensues from the inventive genius or creative passion of humans belongs to that domain we call Art and properly falls under the concerns of the Humanities. But that is not the subject of this essay.
Small-scale miner Rey Zamora from Maco town in Compostela Valley revealed soldiers were deliberately bombing their tunnels to sabotage operations due to large-scale mining interests. His group Indug Kautawan condemns the mining intrusion. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
City Administrator Attorney Melchor Quitain is investigating fixing and bribery employees of the City Engineering Office who are asking for fees from businesses to speed up application for building permits. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Nora Aunor, superstar, multi-awarded actress, source of quotable one-liners, received a “people’s award” last Friday from the groups Gabriela and Peace for Life.
But let’s do Eve Ensler one better. I’d like to think that my anger should be reserved for more serious things, especially if I’m going to rant about it in front of all of you. My vagina is angry, and if I tell you the four reasons why, maybe you’ll find that all your vaginas are angry, too.
The indigenous peoples’ alliance Kalumaran promotes their traditional food called Tinalombo in Matigsalog or Linutlot in Bagobo where rice, shrimps, fish, chicken, coconut, and onion are steamed inside bamboo stems. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Activist group Bagyong Alyansang Makabayan – Southern Mindanao led a cultural protest at Freedom Park during the July 4 Filipino-American Friendship Day.
We have said it in no uncertain terms that President Noynoy Aquino could have been drunk with power. We have surmised that the popular vote he got in the last elections was some kind of an intoxicant—an intoxicant so sweet and powerful it could have had a habit-forming effect on his sensibilities as a State official.
