Today’s Medical Mission

If we didn’t show up today the barangays would have had the hardest time accessing adequate healthcare from our own government. This is why the Kabataan Party List organizes in the most impoverished areas. Our knowledgeable staff allows the medical team to be utilized for our people. We are glad to embark on the medical mission; the help from the legal face of KPL is committed to genuine reform for our people.

We are lucky to find that the actual community is divided into different phases. We organize at phase II of Payatas and the children are excited to play ball with us, so we divide ourselves into teams and play ball. Bernardo starts shooting Jays and we decide to get the whole team involved, which is when Amelia starts going Chares Barkley on them! Haha

After we win our game, we stop by an HQ, fall asleep in the van and eat lunch. Waking up at 6:00am is catching up right about now. Ingat, kasamas.

Last but not least… Please donate for our cause by clicking on the link to the left!

Daeniel

Message of Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino to the Filipino youth on the historical event of seating the first youth representative in Congress

Kabataan, tayo ang pagbabago.

Message of Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino to the Filipino youth on the historical event of seating the first youth representative in Congress

Five years in the making for the country’s sole youth sectoral party-list, but better late than never and victory is still sweet for all Filipino youth.

Kabataan Party-list, the largest youth party in the country, represented the youth sector in the 2007 elections. It was the second time for our organization to run in the party-list elections. In 2004, we ran under our previous name, Anak ng Bayan, and were among the top choices for party-list based on pre-election surveys. Anak ng Bayan, however, fell prey to massive cheating. A significant number of our votes were anomalously counted in favor of another party-list group, thus our change of name in the 2007 party-list elections.

Despite not winning, we went on with our advocacies and continued to carry on with our principles and general program of action with the help of our founding organizations, such as the National Union of Students of the Philippines, College Editors Guild of the Philippines, League of Filipino Students and Anakbayan and other supporters nationwide and abroad.

Now, five years after our first electoral bid, Kabataan Party-list has finally secured a seat in the House of Representatives per SC GR No. 179271, promulgated April 29, 2009.

Now, we are happy to convey the message to all Filipino youth that the SC Resolution, in effect, has once again marked the youth’s rightful place in history by granting the first ever youth sectoral representation in the House of Representatives.

LFS Music Break! “Kabataan Partylist” by Kiwi & “Awit Ng Kabataan” by Rivermaya

Another LFS music break. In honor of the recent victory of the progressive party-lists, in particular Kabataan Party-list, we present two videos that are dedicated to the youth.

First up, a song by Kiwi that was used to promote the party-list during the last elections.

Lastly, a song by Rivermaya called “Awit Ng Kabataan”. Enjoy!

Breaking News! 1st EVER Youth Sectorial Rep in Philippine Congress!

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LFS- SFSU would like to congratulate the three new progressive reps in Philippine Congress, including our good friend Mong Palatino of the Kabataan Party-list for being the first person to represent the youth and student sector in congress. We’ll miss seeing you around our events and meetings =)

KABATAAN MAKABAYAN, LUMALABAN!

Bayan Muna shall have an additional one rep ( Atty . Neri Colmenares )
Anak Pawis, additional rep ( Joel Maglunsod )
Kabataan Partylist ( Mong Palatino )

MABUHAY!  We have three more reps in Congress.  That makes it EIGHT ND reps in Congress!!

Please forward this news widely to your website, network.

SC strikes blow to Cha-cha, OKs 32 new party-list reps

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by ARIES RUFO, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak | 04/21/2009 3:14 PM

It was a masterful stroke that could derail Charter change (Cha-cha) initiative on its tracks.

While the House of Representatives prepares to go full-throttle on charter change, the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday allowed 32 more party-list representatives to sit in Congress, changing the configuration in the supposed number of signatures required to bypass the Senate on amending the charter.