Porferio Tuna (second from left), National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace consultant from Southern Mindanao Region joins the launching of the Kilusang Pagbabago Davao Region. Tuna said they accepted the invitation to share the NDF’s viewpoint on President Rodrigo Duterte’s actions towards change. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Members of the newly-launched “Kilusang Pagbabago” in Davao Region take their oath to be part the Duterte administration’s plans for change at the Rizal Memorial Colleges gymnasium on Sunday, Oct.23. A similar formation and launching of the same group in barangay level will also be initiated by Duterte’s supporters. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte from different regions in Mindanao gather for the launching of “Kilusang Pagbabago” in Southern Mindanao Region on Sunday, Oct.23. The launching held in Rizal Memorial Colleges Gymnasium Sunday is to educate the members about the policies of the Duterte administration. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
A Lumad woman in Malagos, Calinan district Davao City prepares a ring of wire where she will put the handmade indigenous accessory called “tikus” to sell outside the Philippine Eagle Center. A tikus can be worn on the wrist or leg. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte clarifies his statement regarding the “separation” with the United States saying there is no cutting of diplomatic ties, but only a separation of foreign policy. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Leaders of indigenous peoples and Moro alliance, SANDUGO, burn a mock flag of the United States in a protest rally held in Mendiola, Manila to condemn the violent dispersal of rallyists at the US Embassy on Oct. 19. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A protester smears a police car with the words “JUNK EDCA VFA”, which stand for the two agreements signed between US and the Philippines, Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and Visiting Forces Agreement, during a protest that met a violent dispersal on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The same police vehicle, driven by PO3 Franklin Kho, would run over the protesters an hour later. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping meet and shake hands prior to their bilateral meetings at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday, October 20. (King Rodriguez/PPD)
Environment Secretary Regina Lopez visits the last day of Jimmy Saypan’s wake at the United Methodist Church in C.M. Recto, Tuesday. Saypan was the secretary general of Compostela Farmers’ Association who figured in the local community’s anti-mining campaign.
Members of the Compostela Farmers’ Association and other support groups staged an indignation rally in front of the Eastern Mindanao Command in Panacan on Tuesday, Oct. 18 to demand justice for the killing of CFA leader and anti-mining advocate, Jimmy Saypan. Saypan’s body was also brought to the protest site before heading to his hometown in Montevista, Compostela Valley Province. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
