As students gear for fare hike protests “What in the term ‘social service’ does the DOTC not understand?” This was how Terry Ridon, national chairperson of the League of Filipino Students described the planned fare increases in the MRT and the LRT which the Department of Transportation and Communication is dead-set to impose in the [...]

Austerity should start at the Palace “We didn’t know the Palace was exempted from belt-tightening and austerity measures.” This would perhaps be the curt reply of young people who would come to know about the appointment by President Benigno Simeon Aquino III of three cabinet secretaries who occupy redundant functions as communications heads of the [...]

“The country is not for sale, Noy. We will resist all efforts by government to further commercialize the education system with its commitment to public-private partnerships in government infrastructure and services.” This was the statement of Terry Ridon, national chairperson of the League of Filipino Students in reaction to President Benigno Simeon Aquino III’s State [...]

Unlikely allies for education?A day before the scheduled national student walkout, students have secured the support of an unlikely ally, the administration officials of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. “Today we march united with the PUP administration to call on President Aquino to deliver on his promises to state higher education. Our plight among [...]

According to the mass communications freshman, she spends more than one-fourth of her daily two hundred-peso allowance in commuting expenses alone.

It is most disturbing that after the euphoria of the people in their aspirations for genuine change, such atrocities continue under the new government. We call on Pres. Aquino to abandon Oplan Bantay Laya II now.

http://www.pinoypress.net/2010/07/01/release-emergency-funds-for-education-aquino-told/ 1 JULY 2010 MANILA — In reaction to President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino’s inaugural speech, a student group called on him to fulfill his promise and immediately commit emergency funds for education. “Hindi natin ipagpapaliban ang mga pangangailangan ng ating mga estudyante, kaya’t sisikapin nating punan ang kakulangan sa ating mga silid-aralan,” Aquino said in [...]

“Mr. President, your young ‘bosses’ are marching to Malacanang to decry the education crisis. Our demands must be met, with extraordinary haste.”

Mr. President, there can be no genuine change without a rejection of US military intervention in Philippine soil. We cannot forever be under the beck and call of the Americans