DAVAO City — The bright colors, banging of drums, vibrant dances and chants reverberated the streets during the Kadayawan’s Indak-Indak sa Kadalanan (Street Dancing). Around 23 contingents from Davao and neighboring provinces braved the heat in this year’s parade on the festival of all festivals, showcasing indigenous dances, costumes and props that showed the culture…
Remembering the oil pipe leak that occurred in 2010, which also caused sufferings on the coastal villages in Cavite, the newly-formed group, the Close Petron Depot Movement (CPDM), said the Petron oil depot poses a “constant threat to the lives of fisherfolk and urban poor.”
MANILA – Concerned faculty members of the University of the Philippines (UP) joined calls for the abolition of the pork barrel system. In a press conference on Friday, August 17, the UP professors wore their official sash used for graduation ceremonies called “Sablay” to convey a message: “The pork barrel system is ‘sablay.’ Instead of…