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Livelihood Aid Helps Marawi Rise from Siege
Livelihood Aid Helps Marawi Rise from Siege
With a little startup capital and a coffee grinding machine from the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (Opapp), a group of young residents of Marawi, a city that has been slowly recovering from the devastation brought about by the 2017 siege by Islamist militants, started producing and selling coffee last year.
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Published at 2019-08-28 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: News and Events, People, Society
Tags: Fighting, Marawi, residents
Helen Graham, Mm, Fighting Nun
Helen Graham, Mm, Fighting Nun
It was a time when you could be imprisoned for singing Bayan Ko in public. Ordinary folks clumped together on the street might be violently dispersed or criminally charged with illegal assembly. The invention of mobile phone technology and the World Wide Web was decades away, yet the news was often faked, suppressed and strictly censored by the state. Forbidden truths were spread through mimeographed newsletters and photostats of banned articles smuggled in from abroad.
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Published at 2018-03-12 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: People
Tags: Fighting
Sabong, “The Sport of Kings”
Sabong, “The Sport of Kings”
It’s late Sunday morning, the church mass has ended, and small groups of men still flock to the New Alkor Gallera in Koronadal City. The first fight is just about to start; a cacophony of human voices and different sounds is coming from inside the building. A tobacco chewing local holds a microphone in his hand, he is uttering unintelligible words and the impenetrable crowd is shouting, cheering, waving and applauding.
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Published at 2018-03-05 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Culture, Documentary
Tags: Fighting, gambling
Kalinga
Kalinga
“Kalinga” comes from the common noun “kalinga” which means “enemy,” “fighter,” or “headtaker” in the Ibanag and Gaddang languages. The inhabitants of Cagayan and Isabela considered the Kalinga as enemies since they conducted headtaking attacks on Ibanag and Gaddang territories. As such, the name is considered a misnomer since it has no geographic or ethnic basis. Yet the term has become the official ethnic name accepted even by the natives themselves.
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Published at 2017-12-01 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, People
Tags: Fighting, Kalinga, Tanudan