Today’s View: Let’s give peace a chance

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

Peace comes with a high price.  It comes not just with a symbol of a dove and the signing of agreements.  It comes with a commitment to achieve actual results through genuine and sincere reforms for the majority of the people.

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Today’s View: Endorsement, anyone?

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

Clearly, this practice of bestowing endorsement to electoral candidates reveals a condition of uninformed electorate.  For why should voters base their judgment on the endorsement of someone if they are knowledgeable of the faculties and qualities of the candidates?  Is this not a revelation of the ignorance of the citizenry about the politics of their country or about the competence of the political aspirants? 

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Filipino workers and their families have been calling for an increase in wages, among other economic and political demands. (davaotoday.com file photo by Ace R. Morandante)

Today’s View: Working class heroes

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

And as the workers, farmworkers and peasants marched and braved the heat, with hundreds of red flags waving, they showed Aquino they are still a force to reckon with, undeterred despite the oppression they are experiencing from massive corporations who stole their lands and displaced them from their homes and livelihood.

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