Eleanor de Guzman, Anakbayan national chairperson

Alex T. Magno, GMANews.tv
Danifel “Dan” Campilan had a brief but exciting five-year career as a broadcast journalist. It ended in Quezon City the way it started in his home province of Cebu –- by accident.

Alexander Martin Remollino, Bulatlat.com
“The budget for counter-insurgency should not be increased, because we are not sure whether the money would indeed be used for counter-insurgency. It might only be used for political killings.” Striking words these – from a young man who had braced himself for a military officer’s career all his life.

Tess Bacalla, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Ernesto Beren, 61, remembers the Manila Boys Town of old with fondness. He recalls that the 23-hectare institution had a rustic landscape, surrounded as it was by trees, and huge grounds that gave him and his fellow young wards plenty of room to play.

Tess Bacalla, PCIJ
Seventeen-year-old Paul was already resigned to sleep at the guardhouse of Manila Boys Town in Parang, Marikina as part of his punishment for a minor mischief he says he did not commit. But then the officer-in-charge of the facility changed his mind; Paul was to stay at the OIC’s living quarters while the boy was still “under observation.”

Rafael Pulmano

Margaret Ann B. Soberano

The Most Reverend Godofredo J. David
Iglesia Filipina Independiente

The Youth Against Charter Change and Tyranny organized a free concert at Xaymaca Bar in Timog Avenue, Quezon City on October 26 to celebrate the people’s initial victory against Charter change.

Kristine Alvarez