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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 24, 2010 Administrators and student leaders from different State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) nationwide trooped to the Senate today and urged senators to stop the SUC budget cut and prioritize education. This, as more than a hundred student groups, faculty associations and administrations from SUCs nationwide call to strike tomorrow and…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2010 “Since Noynoy Aquino released the 2011 National Budget, we never wavered in our stand that we must stop the budget cuts on education. But he, too, never hesitated to defend it. This has fanned the youth’s outrage, leaving us with no choice but to issue him a notice of…

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By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – For the first time since he became president, Benigno S. Aquino III’s effigy was burned to the ground by thousands of students who gathered at Plaza Miranda in Manila. For the first time since Aquino became president, his effigy was burned to the ground. (Photo by Janess…

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PRESS RELEASE Sept. 20, 2010 Various sectors of the University of the Philippines Manila campus are set to join more than a hundred student and youth groups in a nationwide walkout on Sept. 24 against budget cuts to education in the proposed 2011 national budget. The UP System’s 11 campuses are facing a P1.39 billion…

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PRESS RELEASE September 21, 2010 In a radio interview, Senator Joker Arroyo said that “President Benigno Aquino III’s administration is running the country like a student government”. “Describing the administration of President Noynoy Aquino as a Student Government-run administration is basically an insult to the student leaders. Many student governments certainly are run better than…

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