Youth Agenda: Ano Ang Aking Itataya?

Youth Agenda 2010 Ano ang aking itataya? Sino ang aking susuportahan? Ano ang aking mga ipinaglalaban?

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ANO ANG YOUTH AGENDA?

YOUTH SPEAK 2010

Davao

Zamboanga Naga Cebu

Cotabato

Iloilo

National Capital Region Bacolod

YOUTH SPEAK 2010

• perform as a voting bloc • engage partisan and non-partisan organizations • partake in activities that ensure fair and clean elections

What are the roles young people should play in the 2010 elections?

Cebu • education • corruption • employment Zamboanga • health care • peace and security • climate change/environment Iloilo

NCR • corruption • education • employment Cotabato • corruption • good governance/ accountability • climate change/environment

• energy crisis • child labor • climate change/environment

What are the national issues that should be given most priority?

Cebu • OSY integration to formal educ. • teenage pregnancies – reproductive health Zamboanga • employment for young people • drug addiction

NCR • student repression • poor educational facilities for SUCs Cotabato • electoral violence • youth participation (e.g. SK)

Iloilo • Iloilo Coal-Fired Power Plant • student repression • SK corruption

What are the sectoral issues that should be given most priority?

Youth Governance • SK Reform and Empowerment Bill • ensure youth representation in government Education • Magna Carta of Students Bill • debt audit for higher education budget • pedagogical training for teachers • raise teachers’ wages

Climate Change/ Environment/ Health • Sustainable Development Bill • national policy for climate change • review of Mining Act of 2001 • explore renewable sources of energy by funding research • implementation of Cheaper Medicines Act

Recommendations

• be part of the STRAW Coalition

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Action Plan

• be part of the First Time Voters Network www.firsttimevotersproject.wordpress.com [email protected]

• be part of the Student Council Alliance of the Philippines www.scapnational.wordpress.com [email protected]

Action Plan

• be part of Towards an Alternative SK (TASK)

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• engage your representatives/local government • sponsor activities in your local community/school

Action Plan

“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience. The error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.”