Thirty-eight labor unions across Mindanao join the first ever island-wide Workers Summit Thursday at the Davao Medical Society building in…
Members of the Brokenshire College Faculty and Staff Union in Davao City picket within the school premises Thursday as they…
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today
Walkie Miraña of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, one of the delegates of the mission, said they were living out a scene from a movie. “There were military checkpoints, and they asked people for cedula and ID, and warned us if we go there we are left to fend for ourselves. It’s just like straight from Orapronobis.”
Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte advises Joji Ilagan-Bian on Tuesday to get out of politics if she can’t “take…
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Parago said that the Garcias have “no real performance or track record to speak of” as well as “no inclination to represent the interests and aspiration of the Lumads, workers, peasants,” among other sectors.
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
The contingents were about to celebrate Earth Day as they scored the continuous large-scale logging in the province even after a log ban was enforced and typhoon Pablo has already ravaged the communities, especially that of indigenous peoples and peasants.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay assailed the military’s action as it “shows the government’s desperation to cover up the situation of the victims of typhoon Pablo– the neglect of the victims’ needs, the corruption in its relief and rehabilitation efforts, and worst, the harassment of people who exposed these, leading to the killing of Cristina Jose, the leader of the Pablo victims’ organization.”
By Mart D. Sambalud
Contributor
Davao Today
The absence of pro-LGBT agenda among political bets “strip LGBTs of their basic human rights” and make them “second-class or low-level constituents.”
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Missioners were already on their way back to the town center from Sitio Limot in Barangay Binondo, the site of their relief mission, when their contingent met a roadblock allegedly set up by members of the Philippine Army’s 67thInfantry Battalion. The missioners are forced to spend the night in Sitio Cabuyao Nursery, Barangay Binondo in Baganga, the site of the infamous “Baganga Massacre” that killed three children in August 2002 when military allegedly strafed a house of the resident where members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were believed to be staying.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“A single innocent life lost to senseless act of terror anywhere in the world is an affront and an outrageous and atrocious assault on humanity’s collective dignity.” — Carlos Zarate, second nominee of Bayan Muna Party
