Navotas fisherfolk hold fluvial protest vs reclamation, demolition
A reclamation project threatens to bring loss of livelihood and homes to Navotas fisherfolk.
A reclamation project threatens to bring loss of livelihood and homes to Navotas fisherfolk.
BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com During the Japanese occupation, they held pabasa in hushed voices by the river to avoid being caught by the Japanese soldiers. Come war or high water, as far as Aling Alegre remembers, her family reads the Pasyon every Lenten season. As...
Alegre Diones, 71, is the first-ever newspaper dealer in what is now known as Navotas City. She started selling newspapers from a stall in front of the Kaunlaran High School, which is near her home in Dagat-Dagatan, in 1981, when she was still an official of the...
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