Youth: kita nasad sa kongresso! let OUR voices be heard!

[potterboy]

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youths and peoples huh?

kinsa man sponsors ani bai?

[--Makoy--]

nindot ni da, naa nay part ang youth sa gobyerno.. but i just hope nga di ni mapareho sa SK nga nahulog nga walay gamit

[duke pikaso]

nindot ni da, naa nay part ang youth sa gobyerno.. but i just hope nga di ni mapareho sa SK nga nahulog nga walay gamit

korekT!! and naa na tay power to uphold our rights as students and youth as a whole in the policy making body of the philippines.. dili lang na masayon ra ta ug gamit sa mga TraPo na nasa gobyerno!

lets target 3 seats in congress!!

[duke pikaso]

Locsin, Trillo lead young stars in pitch for youth group
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...ticle_id=51018

By Jeffrey M. Tupas
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 05:08pm (Mla time) 02/22/2007


MANILA -- Young stars Angel Locsin and Dennis Trillo are among the show business personalities who will appear in a star-studded video endorsing the new Kabataan Party-list (Youth).

Now featured in www.youtube.com, the Kabataan video has been attracting the attention of the youth, most of them expressing their support for the party, if not giggling over the presence of Trillo in the video.

Produced in January and released to the public this February, the video teaser had been on the top 35 videos of YouTube for four days. It can now be downloaded from the Internet and is being circulated in schools and communities nationwide.

"We did not pay the young people who appeared in the video. We let them read the script and they were the ones who chose what lines they would like to narrate," Mong Palatino, the group's national president and number one nominee, said in e-mail exchanges with the Philippine Daily Inquirer, parent company of the INQUIRER.net.

The brief description to the video says: "In this time of corrupt governance and political unrest/instability, the nation needs young, vibrant and innovative minds who will restore integrity and morality in governance and lead the nation to genuine progress and social change."

Also making a pitch for Kabataan in the video are noontime TV show hosts Ciara Sotto and Paolo Ballesteros, reggae band Brownman Revival vocalist Dino Concepcion, Agaw Agimat vocalist QT Paduano Nadela, TV host and student activist Atom Araullo, Filmmaker Sinag de Jesus, Palatino and fellow party nominees Rico Almoquera and Ella Colmenares.

Locsin, who was a member of the Anak ng Bayan (Kabataan's former name) in 2003, is the younger sister of Colmenares. Patino said they met with Locsin in January and asked the actress if she would agree to appear in the video teaser.

"We told her it is our aim to represent the youth sector in Congress and we can only be successful if young people will actively participate in our advocacies. She agreed. She asked her friend Dennis Trillo to be part of the video teaser and Dennis agreed too," Palatino said.

Ciara Sotto, who is also a member of Kabataan Party-list, asked Paolo Ballesteros to be part of the video.

"We want the young people to be more active, aggressive and creative in demanding reforms in the country. We hope to show the idealism of the youth. We want to manifest our disappointment about the current state of affairs in our country. Instead of wallowing in cynicism, we appeal to the passionate energies of the youth to work for genuine changes in our society," Palatino said.

"We thought of featuring young people from different walks of life who will articulate our message for a more active youth involvement in the social and political life of the country," Palatino added.

He said the video, as a political material, would be used by the party even after the elections -- whether or not they would get a seat in Congress.

"It intends to disrupt the disappointing status quo by proving that young people are really determined to fight for changes. TV ads of politicians were made mainly for the 2007 elections. Our video will be used even beyond the elections. Its objective is to encourage the youth to be more active in politics," he said.

"The involvement of youth personalities will help popularize the video among young people and hopefully our target audience will get our message. I hope they will also appreciate that the video featured not only showbiz personalities but also young people from different backgrounds," he added.

The video teaser has been receiving various reactions from the youth themselves.

"Masyadong matalas para sa pangkaraniwang kabataan. Highly political. Kunsabagay, kailangang basagin ang mga tradisyon para makapaghawan ng landas tungo sa pangmatagalang tagumpay. Nakakatuwa ring may mga celebrity endorsers na tayo. [Too sharp for the ordinary youth .... In any case, we need to break with tradition to create a path towards long-term success. It’s great we already have celebrity endorsers]," one commented.

"Finally, a party which I can give my full support to…You have my vote," another said.

"Sayang…di pa ako pede bumoto…[It’s a shame, I cannot vote yet] haissshh..But still, you have my support. This video made me think for a while, haha...nice one!" said another comment.

The only youth party aiming for a sectoral representation in Congress, the Kabataan Party (formerly Ang Nagkakaisang Kabataan para sa Sambayanan or Anak ng bayan) also ran in 2004 but failed to make it.

Named by Pulse Asia as one of the topmost favorite party-list groups in the 2004 elections, the group claimed being a victim of massive vote shaving and padding (dagdag-bawas).

The party's defeat however failed to deflate and weaken its desire to be at the forefront of the political arena as they worked with various youth organizations including the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP), Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP), and the Kabataang Artista Para sa Tunay na Kalayaan (Karatula).

Over the years, the party fought for the rights of the students and consistently blocked and campaigned against incessant tuition and other school fee increases while demanding from the government the people's basic right to a quality and free education.

This is a sector that demands to see "another Cory [Corazon] Aquino who united a grieving nation in the mid 1980s… a new Miriam Defensor-Santiago who amazed the youth with her wit and bravado during the early 1990s."

Also on its list of advocacies are employment, good governance, consumer rights, independence, democratic rights, youth empowerment, and identity and culture -- all of these articulated in the video in a rather assertive fashion that only the youth and the daring can muster.

"Kabataan, panahon na para sumuway at maging mapangahas…[It’s time for us to defy and to dare]," Trillo said in the teaser.

“Walang ibang tagapagmana ng bukas kundi tayo…walang ibang maghuhulma ng bukas kundi tayo…. [Nobody else will inherit the future but us ... Nobody else will shape the future but us],” Locsin said.

In January, Sotto, whose father Vicente “Tito” Sotto is running for senator under the government's TEAM Unity, signed up to join the party during its national convention.

In the teaser, the younger Sotto said: "Sumalungat sa karaniwang agos ng kawalang-pakialam [Let’s go against the usual flow of apathy]."

Palatino, in his own blog, said that the youth could actually make the election less filthy by going out on May 14 to vote. Voting, he said, was the youth's duty and responsibility.

"If the election is dominated by the elite, let's make the elite listen to our problems. If election is a popularity contest, let's demand a concrete platform from all candidates," Palatino said.

"If we abandon the elections and allow the trapos [traditional politicians] to dominate the campaign, elections will be more meaningless and futile exercise. But our vigilance and active engagement would probably make a difference in the reforms we want to achieve by electing competent leaders and removing imbeciles in government," Palatino added.

But voting, he said, would be just one of the many ways where the youth could actually get themselves involved during the elections.

Aside from voting, he said, the youth could volunteer for candidates and parties who "espouse what we think the country needs."

"We can report electoral violations [use those camera phones]. We can campaign for an honest and peaceful election through texting, chat, blog, and joining advocacy groups during the counting of votes," he said.

"We can cancel out all our activities on May 14 in order to brave the long queues and vote in our local precincts. If we don't vote, somebody else will vote on our behalf. Remember, ghost voters are hard to catch in a superstitious country like ours. Voting is also a rare chance to get even with bad politicians," he added.

The youth party is also out to dispel political analysts’ doubts about the capacity of the Filipino youth to deliver votes.

"Young voters could potentially dictate who will seat in the Senate and the next batch of local leaders. This is possible if the youth will vote on May or if they are not registered, influence family and friends to vote for candidates they want to win," he said.

"Analysts doubt the potency of the youth vote. According to them, the youth will not be a significant force in deciding the outcome of the coming polls. This is our chance to prove the skeptics wrong. The youth vote is real. We only need candidates who can inspire the youth with their creative and sensible election agenda," he added.

[duke pikaso]

up! :mrgreen:

[ed168]

hope u can.. so that the govt would know wats going on in the real world.. thr laws r working ba etc... work n fight for it...

[Fighter_Earl]

long term students? naa na daghan sa TC before... 10 years contract moskwela.

Kana inyo reps, wala sad graduate2?

Hahaha ma-o... kanang naka tag-iya na ug haligi sa eskuwelahan.. Walay graduate graduate mao na modagan na lang sa kongreso,,,,,

KABATAAN representatives have been joining political issues for quite sometime, brainwash is not an issue coz naa silay platform specially dedicated sa atoa mga youth.. so di ta dapat mahadlok once naa na sila sa congress, samot na kung 3 seats ato makuha.. :mrgreen:

So you mean to say once you have a platform you cannot be brainwashed WOW.... Ngiga sa.....So this fact has been studied by Oxford U?

youths and peoples huh?

kinsa man sponsors ani bai?

My guess is that traditional politicians and/or power brokers who have vested interest in congress.. SK leaders ring a bell?

[Earl_Gorordo]

hope u can.. so that the govt would know wats going on in the real world.. thr laws r working ba etc... work n fight for it...

Trust me on this, the GOVERNMENT KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE REAL WORLD inday. Its the common tao nga dili. Mao na dali ra kaayo mga tao ilaron ana nila. Just look at the posts here in istorya, how some people easily buy the BS (press releases) the government spews.

[duke pikaso]

Youth Partylist scores CHED-COCOPEA-Malacanang conspiracy to remove tuition cap

Students call for moratorium on tuition and other fee increases

The Kabataan Partylist and the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) today condemned what it called a “grand conspiracy” of officials of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to suspend the implementation of CHED memorandum order no. 14 and subsequent amendments CMO 42 and CMO 7 which provide for a cap on tuition and other fee increases based on the prevailing national inflation rate.

“CHED Chairman Carlito Puno’s unilateral and shameless act shows the commission’s subservience and capitulation to strong pressure from school owners even at the expense of students. This only proves that CHED is toothless and merely functions as a rubber stamp for school owners’ business interests,” Kabataan Partylist president Raymond Palatino pointed out.

“Puno’s unilateral move is a ‘policy regression’ which effectively revokes hard-won amendments to CHED’s policy on tuition hikes that seek to regulate the unabated school fee hikes since the implementation of the original CHED memorandum 13 in 1998.”

Palatino said the timing of the release of Puno’s memorandum last February 20 is questionable as it came out in the middle of tuition consultations in various private schools which are set to end on February 28.

He said the suspension of CMO 14 came after COCOPEA’s meeting with President Arroyo a week before February 20.

He added Kabataan Partylist and NUSP were able to get a copy of COCOPEA’s advisory to its members, also dated February 20, which states the following:

“Please be advised that after a meeting COCOPEA had with president Macapagal-Arroyo last week, the President took the initiative to order the creation of a review team…The review will also cover CHED memorandum orders no. 7, series of 2007; no. 42, series of 2006; and no. 14, series of 2005. Hence, the suspension of these CMOs.”

“This proves that Arroyo had a hand in the suspension of CMO 14 few days before the end of the consultations for tuition and other fee increase proposals.”

Palatino warned that the suspension of CMO 14 and the re-implementation of CMO 14 will not only sow confusion among students but can and in fact is now being used by school owners to increase tuition beyond the inflation rate.

He said the re-implementation of CMO 13 effectively removes the cap on tuition hikes based on the national inflation rate and the inclusion of miscellaneous fees among the items that require student consultation.

He added that Kabataan Partylist and NUSP already received reports from the student councils and organizations in University of the East (UE), Trinity University of Asia and Philippine School for Business and the Arts (PSBA) that their school administrators, after the release of Puno’s memorandum, are now proposing a bigger percentage rate for tuition and miscellaneous fee hikes that is beyond the inflation rate.

“We can’t help but compare these shameless efforts of school owners such as the COCOPEA to the audacious move made by big pharmaceuticals
to block the passage of the cheaper medicine bill. Unfortunately, Arroyo and CHED appear to be willing accomplices to this grand scheme to rake in bigger profits out of students’ pockets.”

Palatino pushed for a freeze on all tuition and other fee hike proposals for the coming school year pending the release of the findings of the commission on the CMO 14 review.

“The government should implement a moratorium on tuition and other fee hikes to avoid a repeat of the collection of illegal tuition and miscellaneous fee increases last year. Private schools and CHED should first settle the issues over the illegal implementation of tuition and other fee hikes this school year under the agency’s memorandum order no. 14 before approving proposals for another round of school fee increases. Implementing an obsolete CMO 13 will only make matters worse.”

“If the Arroyo government said it can lower the electricity rate, why can’t it do the same for tuition and other fee increases?”

Meanwhile, Palatino called on senatorial aspirants to join the students’ clamor for an end to unabated tuition and other fee increases and an immediate investigation on the suspension of CMO 14.

“This will be the best opportunity for them to prove to us that they are really for the youth and they are running to defend and uphold the interest of young Filipinos particularly to education.”

Last February 20, CHED Chairman Carlito Puno released a new memorandum informing all higher education institutions that CMO 14 and all amendments thereto have been suspended “pending review by the commission.” In lieu of CMO 14, the memo provides that CMO 13 is to be used for all tuition increase proposals for AY 2007-2008.




for more info about kabataan partylist, go to www.kabataanparty.com

[--Makoy--]

@duke pikaso: are you from cebu? curious lang ko.. if so, kaila ka ni ernie edralin?