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Lumad leader, farmer-activist killed in their homes
A Lumad leader and a farmer-activists were gunned down in separate incidents in the province of Bukidnon.
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HOMECOMING
Members of the Manobo-Pulangihon tribe from Quezon, Bukidnon, ready to go back home after their arrival at the Cagayan de Oro port Monday night. The group escaped from their employer in Pangasinan whom they accused of maltreating them. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
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UP acad union decries death threats, profiling vs members
Members of All UP Employees Academic Union stage a tableau depicting selfless service to the nation. MANILA — The University of the Philippines (UP) Academic Employees Union (AUAEU) deplored the recent attacks against it’s members in Iloilo and Cebu. On June 27, AUPAEU-Cebu chapter President Phoebe Zoe Maria Sanchez received death threats through SMS. Two…
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Teachers’ plaint
Then Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte did promise to raise teachers’ salaries in 2015 when he was thinking of running for President. He has since promised it eight more times since he came to power, but it hasn’t happened.
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Beyond the numbers game
No one should be under the illusion that any impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo R. Duterte will by itself remove him from office. But it might help. Someone or some organization may be willing to face the firestorm of hate that the regime’s online trolls and mercenaries in print and broadcast will certainly unleash when…
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Climate crisis: Peoples act while governments falter
In the Philippines, used as we are to tropical heat such as the long dry spell of recent weeks, global warming doesn’t seem to be the huge problem that it is in other countries where wild fires and extreme temperatures kill hundreds of vulnerable people. But even as we count ourselves lucky in this regard,…
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BALINGOAN PORT
Boys cling to a rope as they climb the boat that ferries passengers from Balingoan, Misamis Oriental to Benoni, Camiguin and vice versa.
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‘Promoting food security for Filipinos at the heart of Gabriela’s legislative agenda’
It has also filed before the 18th Congress of the House of Representatives bills such as the Magna Carta for Day Care Workers, the amendments to Solo Parents Act, the repeal of Human Security Act and the value added tax on oil, and the resolution on water concession agreement. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com…
