“We won’t let you sell our future.”

June 15, 2010 Students Welcome Opening of Classes With Protest Against Tuition Fee Increase Students led by the League of Filipino Students (LFS), Kabataan Partylist (KP) and Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP) stormed the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Regional Office-7 around 10:30 AM to protest against the Commission’s inactivity in the face [...]

June 7, 2010 Press Release Gain Victories through Protest and Dialogue with CHED Militant students from several universities and colleges in Iloilo today greeted the opening of classes with an indignation protest in front of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Region 6 Office. “The students are indignant about the worsening education situation in the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2010 League of Filipino Students – San Francisco State University From across the Pacific, the League of Filipino Students at San Francisco State University stand along side our sisters and brothers in the Philippines fighting for their basic human right to an education. Students from different corners of the globe [...]

Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino today reacted to Pres. Gloria Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address, saying that her ‘Cinderella stories’ are not reflective of the real state of the education sector.

Despite a brutal dispersal last week, about 100 youth and students returned to the US Embassy in Manila today to continue calling for the junking of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).

“One step forward for women’s rights, but two steps backward for Philippine sovereignty.” This was how the League of Filipino Students (LFS) described the decision of the Supreme Court to transfer the custody of convicted rapist Lance Corporal Daniel Smith from the US embassy to the Philippines while affirming the constitutionality of the Visiting Forces [...]

Students led by the League of Filipino Students (LFS), in a teach-in today at the historic Plaza Miranda, challenged the Filipino students and youth to lead the struggle for “genuine social change” as the youth’s solution to the growing economic crisis. “The Arroyo government’s sweet-talk on the stability of the economy has long been shattered. [...]