Youth and students across the country marked the International Students’ Day with protests last Friday, Nov. 17. They highlighted their calls not only for the education sector but also the calls of different marginalized sectors.
Category: Youth
Campus journos, youth activists in Naga decry red-tagging, surveillance
“They [soldiers] should be the ones protecting our youth who speak up, not the ones repressing our rights to speak out.” – Aila Joy Esperida, editor-in-chief of The Democrat.
Rights groups demand release of youth activist Alexa Pacalda
Almost three years after her arrest, human rights worker Alexa Pacalda remains imprisoned.
On 1st day of transport strike vs. jeepney phaseout, Filipino youth say it’s their fight too
On the first day of the week-long transport strike against the jeepney phaseout, it was not just the drivers and small operators that went out on the streets to protest. Young Filipinos were there, too.
Youth groups: Address education crisis, ditch mandatory ROTC
Filipino youth groups are calling on lawmakers to address the pressing issues affecting the educator sector instead of prioritizing measures seeking to make the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) mandatory.
Campus journalists call out Meta over deleting of posts on censorship, red-tagging
A group of campus journalists called out social media giant Meta over the deleting of their earlier statement condemning censorship and red-tagging.
Youth oppose NCSTP as the ‘new face of brutal mandatory military training’
“Nationalism should not be forced.”
Youth group’s Facebook Page deleted, members locked out after multiple log-in attempts
“We vehemently condemn this brazen attack on the youth. This is a conscious and orchestrated attack to deplatform dissent and to silence the critical voice of the youth.”
On National Students’ Day, PUP reiterates opposition to mandatory military training
The protest amplified their call against the mandatory Reserve Officers Training Corps (MROTC) and for a safe, accessible, and quality school opening.
Students decry impending budget cuts in SUCs, oppose funds for mandatory ROTC
For the past years, several State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) nationwide have faced budget cuts yearly.
‘Student denied of enrollment is a volunteer teacher who taught Makati’s poor’
The student activist who was denied of enrollment after her university accused her of being a recruiter for “terrorist groups” has volunteered to teach Makati City’s urban poor during the pandemic.