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 Agreement [...]

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. As [...]

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October 21, 2008

Today, farmers from the Southern Tagalog Region and Central Luzon, after a week of marching from the provinces marched from the Department of Agriculture towards Mendiola Bridge to call for land, rights and justice. Other sectors and organizations including the League of Filipino Students joined them in the protest.

Click here for a photo gallery of the protest.