2009 Barnstorm WorkshopJeffersonville, NY
2009 Barnstorm Workshop
Residents of Tejeron Bldg.in Makati and policemen collide with each other during a demolition which resulted in injuries for both. Unruly residents throw human wastes, stones, chairs and empty bottles to the responding policeman in an effort to drive the operatives away from the building. Majority of the residents who battle it out with the operatives of the Crowd Dispersal Unit are women.
Notice of eviction has been posted prior to the renovation of the building and monetary assistance has been granted. However residents refuse to vacate their homes claiming that they should stay because they lived in the place for years.
“Everybody knows that Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay seeks media attention that the presidential election for 2010 draws near”, said Auring de la Pena, 56 yrs old who lives on the 3rd floor of the Tenement Building. The four-storey tenement building is located at H. Santos St. in Barangay Tejeron in Makati.
At 1:00pm the Makati policemen succeeded in taking out the remaining families inside the building.
A guide or fixer prepares a dinner at the campsite just before dusk in Pokaran, near the boundary between Pakistan and Indian border. At the Thar desert, three massive nuclear explosions where detonated 200m beneath the sands, 20km morthwest of the town, announcing India's arrival as one of the world's fully fledged atomic powers in May 1998.
More than 17,000 graves represent 13,434 single identified remains including 570 Philippine Nationals who were serving with US Forces in the Southwest Pacific.
OF LIGHT AND SHADOW. A member of the Philippine Army band carries a boquet of flowers at the carved marble stones during the Memorial day at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Fort BonifacioTaguig City yesterday morning.
A 2.7 kg. healthy baby girl is born normally to Moisel Tapia, inside the delivery room of the Doña Marta Lying-in Center in Pasay City, yesterday morning. Representatives of the Department of Health and international health aid organizations, like the United Children’s Fund (Unicef), were onhand as the State of Motherhood Week kicked off yesterday at the health facility which exemplifies the standards set for the care of mothers and their newborn.
Confettis kept on raining as the motorcade of Manny Pacquiao went around Manila's streets, May 11, 2009. The route was also diverted to some streets as the original route in the city of Manila was change.
Adoring crowds waved and gave boxing hero Manny Pacquiao a rousing welcome during his three-city motorcade.