For almost three months, we have gone to every corner of our nation and cyberspace to explain why WE, the youth, should elect OUR representatives in Congress and in the Senate. Despite the harassment and black propaganda from various forces who are against change, we have been successful in spreading our message of new politics [...]

According to a recent study by the IBON Foundation, 7 out of every 10 graduates this year will be jobless. As a result of the lack of jobs in the past years, they will be competing against unemployed graduates from previous years.
Those fortunate enough to land jobs have their own “horror stories” to tell: work [...]

Yesterday’s Blog Action Day, in tandem with the National Day of Education, was a very fruitful one, as symbolized by the freeing of the “PUP 5″.
Not only did the PUP Administration drop the criminal charges against the five student leaders, the PUP Board of Regents also passed a resolution disapproving any tuition and other fee [...]

This week was marked by several student actions that successfully prevented moves to make education less accessible. Among the policies that were either delayed or prevented are:

an almost-2000% tuition hike in the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
approval of tuition hike proposals in most of the 233 private schools that violated consultation guidelines

However, many issues continue [...]

A big THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS to all those who participated in the Blog Action Day! Watch out for our next Blog Action Day soon.
Our event was also covered by ABS-CBNnews.com.
Here are excerpts from contributions to Blog Action Day: Real Heroes of EDSA:
for adarna, these were the youth activists of the First Quarter Storm
… let [...]

Here’s the round-up of contributions to today’s Blog Action Day on The Real Heroes of Edsa. We’ll be updating this post as more contributions come in.
If you aren’t done with yours yet, don’t fret. We won’t turn down any submissions until the day is done. Just don’t forget to include our official button image and [...]

Twenty four years ago, our people toppled a tyrant.    On February 25, 2010 let us re-tell their stories.
On Thursday, we are enjoining all young Filipinos to blog about the stories of the real heroes of EDSA: our parents, grandparents, ates and kuyas, titos and titas, ninong and ninangs.
We may have been too young then or [...]

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The latest Pulse Asia survey shows that seven out of ten Filipinos lack knowledge about the AES (Automated Election System) and the partylist system.
This is bothersome: should this hold true on Election Day, it will mean millions will be unable to vote, or have their votes [...]