A total of 18 entries in this year’s 1st Kosplay Kadayawan showcased their different interpretation of the city’s iconic Philippine Eagle.
Duterte’s antics, pitch for another Marcos presidency are deplorable – Karapatan
“Duterte’s antics are now becoming tiring. This regime has made it a habit to be as dramatic as possible, sensationalizing the choosing of his “successor” as if it is his choice to make. We are irked that once again, he is conditioning the public for another Marcos presidency, knowing full well how that wretched family plundered and violated the country,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay on Duterte’s pronouncements made on August 14, addressing an audience composed of business executives and politicians in Malacañang.
Teachers, education workers hold summit
Mahigit-kumulang 150 na guro, non-teaching personnel at instruktor mula sa iba’t ibang SUC’s, pampubliko at pribadong paaralan ang nagtipon-tipon sa Bulwagang Tandang Sora, College of Social Work and community Development, UP Diliman para sa National Education Worker’s Summit 2018 na pinangunahan ng Alliance of Concerned Teachers, All UP Academic Employees Union, Quezon City Public School Teachers Association (QCPSTA), SOS (Save Our Schools) UST Chapter at KMED (Kilos na para sa Makabayang Edukasyon) noong Agosto 15, […]
MAYAMOR*
By Tomas Talledo You write poetry but who reads? They who sends SMS “I luv U ga…mwah”? They who sit at coffee shops blubbering inanities? They who sex at the age of fourteen? They’re Plato’s ilks who’ll banish poetry in our people’s republic. You vividly paint the revolution but who stops to […]
Activists condemn persecution in rally
Days after trumped-up charges against four leading activists were dismissed by the Regional Trial Court of Palayan City, activists marched to Mendiola, Manila to condemn the Rodrigo Duterte government for its political persecution of dissenters. Saying the government has revived Gloria Arroyo-era mechanisms to quell dissent on top of its own bloody record on human […]
Karapatan condemns massacre of seven CPP-NDF staff, cover-up by gov’t operatives
“Stop justifying the unjustifiable,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay on the massacre of seven personnel of the National Democratic Front (NDF) and Communist Party of the Philippines in Panay, and the consequent cover-up orchestrated by state security forces thereafter.
Award-winning Davao film on Lumad showing during Kadayawan
The award-winning film of the Lumad in Mindanao is showing now in Davao City in time for Kadayawan.
KADAYAWAN VILLAGE
“Ata” elders play the gong during a dance presentation in the Kadayawan Village at Magsaysay Park.The “Atas” of Davao City are from the hinterlands of Marilog and Paquibato District but they are part of the wider Manobo peoples of the provinces of Davao del Norte, Compostela Valley, Bukidnon, Agusan and Surigao del Sur.(Medel Hernani/davaotoday.com)