“While the Commission on Higher Education had heeded the call of Kabataan Partylist and allied student groups to impose a directive permitting college students to take their exams despite delinquent tuition payments, we dare posit that a return to full regulation of higher education must be in order.” This was the statement of Terry Ridon, [...]

PRESS RELEASE January 27, 2010 “Government is the country’s food seller of last resort. GMA, you better do something about the sugar crisis.” This was the statement of Terry Ridon, National Chairperson of the League of Filipino Students, as the LFS criticized the Sugar Regulatory Administration for washing its hands over the continuing increases in [...]

“As US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney leaves for the United States today, Terry Ridon, National Chairperson of the the League of Filipino Students had this to say to Amb. Kenney, “Good riddance, and take you troops home with you.”

As the nation commemorates the ninth 9th anniversary of EDSA People Power 2, Kabataan Party-list Representative Mong Palatino appealed to the Filipino youth to preserve and relive the legacy of People Power. Palatino, an EDSA Dos veteran, said that the vision and essence of the uprising was to achieve moral, political, economic, and cultural change. [...]

10. In the last nine years, there had been no real and substantial increase in the budget of Philippine education, while debt servicing is automatic and a topmost priority. 9. Instead of increasing the education budget, she permitted the unabated increases of tuition and other fees not only in private schools, but in state universities [...]

The League of Students paid tribute today to Ian Dorado and Tanya Domingo, LFS members from the University of the Philippines who were ambushed by government forces in Bulacan last week

Today a grateful student movement and people shall deaden the alarm bells of fascist hordes by honoring you, Kemberley “Kimay” Jul Luna, for advancing the national democratic revolution in its highest form.

January 4, 2010LFS-IIT “Umaalis ang mga anak upang habulin ang kanilang mga pangarap, at malao’t madali, maraming magulang ang tumutunton sa duguang bakas ng kanilang mga anak…upang sunduin ang kanilang bangkay at iuwi ang pinakadakilang katibayan ng kanilang pagkatao.” – Lualhati Bautista We, from the League of Filipino Students (LFS) and the Student Alliance for [...]