By Mayen Jaymalin Updated April 21, 2009 12:00 AM (philstar.com)
MANILA, Philippines - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) junked yesterday a proposal to give P100 million in rewards to those who could successfully hack into the automated election system for the 2010 polls.
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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.
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Pat Evangelista’ s day’s reflections remain only for one day but speaks for generations, for there is much more to think of every day in this country. Let her thoughts be just that: thoughts in our minds, horrors that will haunt us in our dreams every night until we realize that we won’t wake up until we resist. Resist is an active verb, you know. -Anjo Cerdena
The truths every Filipino should know
by Patricia Evangelista
Method to Madness
Philippine Daily Inquirer
04/25/2009
Today I will write a manifesto. I would like to correct the perception that my generation is apathetic to the state of the nation. I am told we neither know nor care about issues of policy, of poverty, of the national economy. It is not true, but such is our inexperience that we look towards the obvious superiority of our elders to determine how to go about our lives, to set our moral and ethical standards, to fix upon our minds the path of truth and virtue in a society in constant battle with sin.
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