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Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:00 |
MANILA, Philippines - Militant student organizations will lead a Metro Manila-wide walk-out on Friday to protest against Charter change and a possible “all-out war" against secessionist rebels, a statement released on Thursday said.
Youth for Accountability and Truth Now! (Youth ACT Now!), a coalition of militant student organizations, said students from various universities and public high schools from Metro Manila have pledged to walk out of their classes show the youth's opposition against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's “moves to perpetuate herself in power."
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 23:25 |
MANILA, Philippines - A militant teachers group on Tuesday protested in front of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) calling for the resignation of President and General Manager Winston Garcia.
Led by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) the teachers said that they were protesting what they described as the “oppressive and exploitative" policies of GSIS introduced by Garcia.
Hundreds of public school teachers marched to the main gate of the GSIS complex in Pasay City at around 10 am.
They held a program and set up a “complaint desk" that documented the grievances of hundreds of teachers.
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Monday, 14 July 2008 16:02 |
 Two weeks before President Arroyo’s eighth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 28, her critics in the broad Left begin designing what they say would be her biggest effigy.
“It will be one of the highlights of the protests. The design is complicated. It will be unveiled there. It will involve several parts and some of it will be suspended on air,” Bayan chair Renato Reyes told abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak.
Reyes said visual arts professionals and students are involved in the design. It will be the eighth effigy of President Arroyo that the movement will construct.
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Monday, 14 July 2008 03:05 |
 MANILA, Philippines—Students and teachers over the weekend said they would launch a text messaging and e-mail campaign to urge employees of private companies to reject the appointment of Romulo Neri as head of the Social Security System.
The militant League of Filipino Students and the Alliance of Concerned Teachers described Neri as a “cowardly bureaucrat” with “zero credibility.”
Neri earned the ire of various student and teacher groups when he refused to answer questions at a Senate inquiry on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s response to his report of a bribe offer to approve the $329-million National Broadband Network deal. He pleaded “executive privilege” in his communications with the President.
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Friday, 11 July 2008 12:30 |
Hundreds of youth activists on Thursday started an 18-day caravan that will end in Quezon City in time for President Arroyo's 8th State of The Nation Address (SONA) later this month.
The "cultural caravan," headed by members of Anakbayan-Southern Tagalog, started before noon Thursday at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna.
The youth activists will march around Rizal, Quezon and Batangas provinces to urge more young protesters to join the caravan.
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