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| LGBT SYMPOSIUM. Ilocos Sur Pride Council representative Dindi Tan hands over an LGBT book to Laoag ABC President Mikee Fariñas during a Symposium on SOGI A2J thru ADO: Advocating for Laoag City's Anti-Discrimination Ordinance - Laying the Groundworks for a Gender Fair City. The ordinance aims to enjoin the participation of civil society stakeholders, government representatives and law practitioners for the introduction of the Anti-Discrimination Ordinance (ADO). The symposium was conducted by the Rainbow Rights Project, Inc. and the Fund for Global Human Rights in cooperation with the ABC office and was attended by the gay and lesbians in Laoag and Ilocos Norte at the Laoag ABC building. (Doms dela Cruz) |
MARCOS, Ilocos Norte—Taking pride of this town ’s favorite Ilo cano dish, locally known as pinakbet, a mix of indigenous vegetables steamed in fish sauce, residents here ushered the opening of the third Pinakbet festival. “Pinakbet” came from the contracted Ilokano word ‘pinakebbet ’ which means “ shrunk ” or “shriveled.” As a way of thanksgiving, the Pinakbet festival is a repository of the town ’ s “ani” [harvest] festival being celebrated every month of March but this was later moved to December to accommodate more balikbayans wanting to join the festivity. Residents in this agricultural town derived most of their income from the harvest of high value crops, including rice, tobacco and corn as staple crops. This year, the week-long festivity highlighted a grand parade around the town plaza and a pinakbet cook fest at the municipal gymnasium to showcase the best pinakbet in town. A boodle fight followed suit. Earlier, a fun run was participated by various groups ...
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