SONA 2017

Read more about the article Mr. President lend us your ears – Lumad students
NO TO BOMBING. Lumad leaders, students, teachers and support group from Mindanao, in a press conference at the “Kampuhan” at Mendiola Bridge on Tuesday condemned the threat of President Rodrigo Duterte to bomb lumad schools. (Alex D. Lope/davaotoday.com)

Mr. President lend us your ears – Lumad students

Instead of listening to military generals whom they perceived of having no idea ?of their real situation, Lumad leaders and students from Mindanao appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to come and listen to their stories and pleas.

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Read more about the article STOP MILITARIZATION
STOP MILITARIZATION. Lumad leaders and students from Southern Mindanao Region, CARAGA and SOCCSKSARGEN call on President Rodrigo Duterte to stop the military attacks in lumad schools and the lift the martial law as they joined the protest actions in the ongoing Kampuhan (camp out) at the historic Mendiola Bridge in Manila. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

STOP MILITARIZATION

Lumad leaders and students from Southern Mindanao Region, CARAGA and SOCCSKSARGEN call on President Rodrigo Duterte to stop the military attacks in lumad schools and the lift the martial law as they joined the protest actions in the ongoing Kampuhan (camp out) at the historic Mendiola Bridge in Manila. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

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Read more about the article CPP’s Sison hits back at Duterte: Do not belittle revolutionaries
Communist of the Philippines founding chairman Prof. Jose Maria Sison and President Rodrigo Duterte (davaotoday.com)

CPP’s Sison hits back at Duterte: Do not belittle revolutionaries

President Rodrigo Duterte’s scathing remarks against his former professor, Jose Maria Sison, was met with equally strong statement from the founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines on Monday, July 24.

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Read more about the article Mindanao’s true face portrayed by peasants, workers, IPs on Duterte’s second SONA

Mindanao’s true face portrayed by peasants, workers, IPs on Duterte’s second SONA

They came – the workers, peasants and indigenous peoples, to represent their class to depict the true conditions of their communities and workplaces during the second State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte. They joined the thousands of the marginalized sectors of the country and camped out in strategic areas in Metro Manila to air out their grievances that one year into the present administration, no changes were effected in Mindanao.

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