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By KC Santos
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA – The Kabataan Partylist is taking action against the Anti-Planking Bill filed by Quezon City Representative Winnie Castelo.
The group launched “PLANK! For a Cause”, which aims to “enhance the use of planking for social causes and merge various planking photos around the world to dramatize the militancy of the youth.”
“The global popularity of planking is largely due to its fun and eccentric character. We enjoin the Filipino youth and planking enthusiasts around the world to utilize planking in advancing social causes,” said Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino.
To efficiently mobilize the youth, the group also created an online group encouraging plankers to share their planking photos and specify which social cause they are planking for.
In a statement, Palatino said that the Anti-Planking Bill of 2011 impinge on the freedom of expression of plankers. He added that such measure is made more repressive by its proposal to draft a code of conduct against students who will join protest actions.
“The (anti-planking) bill is not only against planking as a protest form, it even aims to restrict our students from staging protest actions on the whole. This definitely goes against the youth’s fundamental right to freedom of expression,” Palatino said.
Palatino said that State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) all over the country will be staging creative forms of protests during the national youth strike week.
The Technological University of the Philippines (TUP), the Rizal Technological University (RTU) and the Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST) will be launching protest actions in the form of prayer rallies, white shirt and ribbon wearing, and noise barrages.
“It is not only UP and PUP who will be joining the strikes. SUCs all over the country will be launching their own protests to call for a sufficient increase in the budget of public higher education. This unprecedented effort shows the firm unity of our SUCs to fight for the welfare our youth and nation,” Palatino concluded.
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