Ocampo said he “very much agrees” with all the demands in the agenda and expressed delight in several items, including those against red-tagging, the abolition of the NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict), the repeal of the Anti-Terrorism Act and other repressive laws, and the enactment of a human rights defenders bill.
Ian Aragoza, spokesperson of the Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) and co-lead petitioner, stressed the importance of manual vote counting: “Because the source code is not available to the public, we don’t know how the machines count and transmit our votes.”
It is no wonder that despite numerous triumphs of “dynasty slayers” out there, we can still see dynasties persist across the county. Is it possible to prevent them from coming back to power?
“Preventing government employees from expressing their views on political issues in social media, especially on policies and politicians affecting their rights and welfare as government workers, is curtailing their rights to freedom of expression as workers and as citizens,” Gaite emphasized.
The Apostols of Leyte, the Felixes of Rizal’s Cainta town, and the Eusebios of Pasig City were dislodged from their perch by neophytes.
Trends Research & Advisory noted: “The new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on China, the European Union, and several Asian nations may further destabilise global trade, potentially prompting retaliatory measures from affected countries.”
Reformists must seize every opening to challenge entrenched dynasties, according to interviewees of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
A December 2024 Social Weather Station survey shows 63% of Filipino families consider themselves poor, the highest since 2008, echoed by another March 2025 Stratbase-SWS survey revealing that 27.2% of families face involuntary hunger, the worst since the COVID-19’s peak, the coalition pointed out.
“We are here today not only to remember the victims, but to demand that Rodrigo Duterte be held accountable for the mass murder of the poor. The white ribbon symbolizes our collective grief, but more importantly, our unwavering resolve to seek justice,” Colmenares announced.
“We’re not naive. We know that a lot of red-tagging comes from the NTF-ELCAC,” Kabataan said.
