MAITUM, Sarangani (Sarangani Information Office/07 November) — A text message from a concerned citizen led cops to seize three truckloads of Philippine hardwood believed to be illegally cut as the trucks were passing by this town under cover of darkness.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 Nov) – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon and Philippine National Police chief Avelino Razon and three other military officials are respondents in the first petition for writ of amparo in Mindanao.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 November ) – Any time, any day.
Chief Justice Reynato Puno wants the public to know that any time or any day, relatives of missing persons can petition the judge for a writ of amparo, a measure intended to protect the missing person from becoming a victim of extrajudicial killings or a desaparecido (disappeared or victim of enforced disappearance).
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/07 November) — The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Southwestern Mindanao (Region 12) has manifested its opposition to a mining firm’s policy on hiring Lumads (indigenous peoples), claiming the hiring standards are “too high” the Lumads won’t qualify.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/07 November) — The Commission on Election in the province of North Cotabato has appealed to all Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan candidates who won or lost in the October 29 polls to clean up the mess they left behind.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/07 Nov) — The city mayor here has denied any civil and criminal liability for allowing the construction of the P1.2 million-building for the ukay-ukay (used clothing) at the old public market terminal here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 Nov) — More than the mural depicting the history and state of press freedom, the perception of press freedom by the National Press Club was debased and distorted. The integrity of that perception and of the officers running it needs restoration more than the originality of the defiled mural.
A national artist, a visual artist and an art critic are one in extolling a work of art as sacred and in condemning its retouching by anyone other than its creator in order to please a patron – not an art but a political patron – as a defilement, a form of censorship (INQUIRER.net, Nov. 5).
The Sumilao Farmers spent the entire morning for reflection session. They were asked two questions: What is the most striking experience for you in the Walk for Sumilao Land, Walk for Justice Campaign? and what are your expectations from the campaign starting tomorrow until we reach Malacanang?
