UST Students, Yellow Jackets and other youth groups staged #MakeSomeNoise Against Corruption and All kinds of Pork and BS Aquino's term extension. Victor Villanueva, Spokesperson of Youth ACT Now and President of UST Civil Law Student Council, said: "Huwag natin hayaang manahin natin ang bulok na sistema, DAPat managot lahat ng sangkot!". | PHOTO by: Michael Francis Andrada, Pinoy Media Center
In the run-up to the first anniversary on Monday (Aug.25) of the massive anti-pork barrel movement's rally at Luneta, youth groups held simultaneous protests in various schools in Metro Manila Friday.
Taking part in the fight against what they called the “Yellow Dictatorship,” students and youth from various universities and communities along Mendiola, the University Belt, and Intramuros conducted noise barrage protests on Friday afternoon.
Participants used slogans, whistles and drums to demonstrate their rage against the deep-seated corruption perpetuated by the Aquino regime.
Among the activities was a noise barrage together with college drumbeaters at San Beda College on Mendiola; a noise barrage featuring UST drummers at the University of Sto. Tomas Gate 2; and a cultural march against pork barrel, with students of PLM, Mapua and Letran at the ASEAN Garden in Intramuros, Manila.
The youth and students dubbed the simultaneous protests “DAPat Mag-ingay” protests vs Aquino Dictatorship.
The League of Filipino Students’ (LFS) national spokesperson Charlotte Velasco, in a statement, assailed the Aquino government’s call for term extension and Charter Change (Cha-Cha).
The simultaneous actions dubbed as “DAPat Mag-ingay” were led by youth groups LFS, Anakbayan, Student Christian Movement of the Philippines, Karatula, National Union of Students of the Philippines, College Editors Guild of the Philippines, and Kabataan Partylist. LFS invited the youth to participate in the upcoming rallies against DAP and the entire pork system.
“The administration’s solid persistence to protect the system stealing from the public trust must be confronted by more agitated and vigorous protests renouncing the corrupt regime. Aquino disgustingly extols the P250-billion DAP used for projects when it only fattened funds for corruption and brought more despair to the people,” Velasco said.
The groups urged onlookers to commemorate National Heroes’ Day on August 25 by joining the “Stand Up, Sign Up” protest at Luneta and signing the People’s Initiative Bill to abolish the pork barrel system.
“There would be no other way to put justice to the lives of our heroes and martyrs than combining our initiative to forge an act that would inhibit corruption. To enable broad participation in the battle against plunder and impunity is the foreground cause of our protest on August 25,” stated Velasco.
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This Communist Party of the Philippines front group activity. The League of Filipino Students (LFS) has long functioned as the focus of radical CPP-associated activity on a number of college and university campuses. There are even several chapters active in the United States.
ReplyDeleteAnakbayan, Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP), Karatula, National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) , College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP), and Kabataan Partylist are all CPP fronts active in the student/youth sectors.