DAVAO MEDIA AGAINST REPLY BILL. Calling the Right of Reply Bill (RORB) an anathema to press freedom and free expression, Davao media unite to fight the passing of the bill, now on second reading in Congress. NUJP-Davao calls the bill an act of terrorism against the independent Philippine press. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
READY FOR EXPORT. A worker wrapping seorita bananas for export to Japan, Korea and China. She’s one of the twelve running a mobile packing plant at the Dole-Stanfilco banana plantation in Barangay Coronobe, Maragusan, Compostela Valley. Packed in boxes, the bananas are collected by container vans and carried off directly to the seaport in Davao City. (davaotoday.com photo)
STENCH OF REALITY. City ordinance dictates that throwing of garbage may only be done in the evenings. What regulation will ensure that these young boys do not need to go through trash bins? (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
RICE LAND TO BANANA LANDS. Food security is gravely threatened as ricelands in the fertile Maragusan Valley — a major foodbasket in Southern Mindanao — are converted into banana plantations by the multi-national Dole-Standard Fruit and Steamship Company (Stanfilco). (davaotoday.com photo)
FISHERKIDS. This picturesque scene in Mati, Davao Oriental almost makes one forget that hauling fish is very hard manual labor, hardly suitable for these young boys who should be deep in school work, instead of knee-deep in salt water. (AKP images)
FIGHTING BACK. Lawyers Carlos Isagani Zarate and Eduardo Estores (right) prepare the petition for writ of amparo they filed at the Regional Trial Court here on June 16. Zarate is one of the three lawyers seeking relief from the Courts. He believes that the inclusion of his name in the military’s order of battle (OB) list puts his life in danger. Estores is one of the five counsels handling the case. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
CHILDREN OF BONIFACIO. The battle is not over yet for these youths belonging to the group Anakbayan. Wary of the rising cost of education and the impending threats for charter change, they stage an independence day protest at the Bonifacio Park in Davao City. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
ROTTEN TOMATOES. Members of the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance)-Southern Mindanao throw tomatoes outside the office of House Speaker Prospero Nograles to show their indignation at the maneuver by majority Congress members to push for Charter Change. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
NO TO GLORIA! A member of peasant group, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, joins the picket against Charter Change outside the Davao city office of House Speaker Prospero Nograles. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
LIKE ZACCHAEUS. Like the short man Zacchaeus, a character in the Bibles New Testament who climbed up the Sycamore tree to see Jesus more clearly, these young children enjoy the view from the top during the Araw ng Muling (Day of Muling) in Kapalong, Davao del Norte. They watch the free medical and dental services and the graduation rites of those enrolled in the literacy-numeracy program of Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Inc. (Misfi) in Kapalong. (davaotoday.com photo by Jomel Hernani)
