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By Marjorie Gorospe
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA – The Kabataan Partylist is taking advantage of Earth Day celebrations to call attention to pressing environmental issues in the country.
Carrying placards enumerating these issues, partylist spokesperson Mark Aquino led Kabataan members and biked around the Quezon City Memorial Circle. The partylist is likewise campaigning for another seat in Congress in next month’s national elections.
Among other issues, the group is calling for revisions to the Mining Act of 1995, a ban on commercial logging and is protesting against the controversial Japanese-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
Aquino says the government has not been giving enough attention to environmental issues, which, he says, is partly to blame for what happen after last year’s typhoons “Ondoy” and “Pepeng”.
Just recently, news of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo receiving a prestigious conservation award in the United States drew criticisms from environmental groups here and abroad.
Aquino says this is ironic when until now, many typhoon victims of the past typhoons have not granted enough help by the Arroyo’s administration in order to regain their livelihood.
In his blog “The Four-eyed Journal”, Julius Rocas, a Kabataan partylist member since 2007, listed a number of reasons why the youth should vote for the group. Blogger Daday Chua, meanwhile, enumerated bills and other resolutions proposed by the group during its tenure in Congress.
If they get elected anew this year, Aquino says the group will push for laws that will influence the country’s youth to help conserve the environment. The group lobbied for a ban on styrofoam materials in schools, which he says is now being followed in De La Salle University and St. Scholastica’s College.
More information on the Kabataan Partylist is available on their website and Facebook page. Or click on this page to read about the group’s campaign platform.
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