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May 05, 2008

DOWN SHE GOES. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo goes down the stairs of the Marco Polo Hotel after a two-hour closed-door meeting with members of the Bishop Ulama Conference. The BUC has been alarmed over the withdrawal of Malaysia from the international monitoring team (IMT) of the ceasefire between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

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May 05, 2008

ENCOUNTER. Bayan Muna’s Joel Virador raises a clenched fist to the camera during a chat with Major Medel Aguilar, chief of the Civil Relations Group 5 of the Philippine Army, at the May 1 Labor Day rally. Each assumes opposing stance in an argument over the need for genuine change to uplift the condition of the working class. Aguilar wears a t-shirt that reads, “no to violence, no to armed struggle,” while Virador wears one that calls for a stop to the militarization in the countryside. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

Roadblocks fail to stop protesting Davao workers

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May 04, 2008

On their way to Davao city, workers from the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte braved road inspections, ‘surprise checkpoints’ before they were able to join the Labor Day rally to express their demands for the P125 across-the-board wage increase, for government to bring down prices of basic commodities, including rice.