By DON PAGUSARA Davao Today There’s a Filipino saying, “Ang sakit sa kalingkingan ay sakit ng buong katawan” (What ails the little finger ails the whole body). And this, I think, is what exactly lies behind the unfolding of a highway drama, the barricades in Montevista, Compostela Valley last January 15.
By PROF. MAE FE ANCHETA-TEMPLA Davao Today This government is berserk. It is confronted with many irregularities in the relief service delivery. As the people’s lamentation continues, the stories are getting bolder. The “barricaders” are just one of those who dared to expose themselves only to tell the truth and now to face the court without any arms but the truth.
By PROF. MAE FE ANCHETA-TEMPLA Davao Today Typhoon Pablo has brought to our very eyes the broad range of issues relevant to disaster response. Issues of intervention and actions for the affected grassroots communities in the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental have been put to further scrutiny.
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR. Davao Today “To write is to choose.” I always carry this battle-cry with pride and honor as a writer and as an alumna of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines.
By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN Davao Today For those of you who still haven’t watched the indie film “Thy Womb,” you can come to Zamboanga City and still catch it. Viewers in Manila were complaining last month that they had to comb the metro to find Brillante Mendoza’s movie about a Moro woman from Tawi-Tawi who helped her husband find another wife so that the latter could bear him a child. Filipino viewers are so loyal to Nora Aunor, who plays the female lead character; most of them tried hard to try to stop the film from being pulled out from major cinemas, despite hardly understanding (and accepting) the movie’s theme.