Kartilya: As the deadline for first-time voters registration nears the Comelec seems to have already ran out of registration forms

CARP vs. GARB

Posted by Ronnie Clarion On February - 2009

Land distribution to landless Filipino farmers is a preset of provision under Art. XIII Sec.4 of the 1987 Constitution. Prior to this provision, former Pres. Corazon Aquino mounted the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) which was later enacted through the passage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) or RA 6657 on June 10, 1988. However, the program had been excoriated for its failure to completely distribute lands to the beneficiaries within its target completion timeframe of 10 years. It was later extended for another 10 years yet the struggle for genuine agrarian reform continues.

Ang Kartilya ng Katipunan

Posted by Christian Espinoza On June - 12 - 2010

The Revolution of the Katipunan may well have been thwarted by American imperialism at the turn of the 20th century, but it is noteworthy to declare that our people, who at that time were only beginning to form the concept of nationhood, were more than able to organize a revolutionary force that would liberate the entire islands from their Spanish colonizers.

Noynoy Aquino Inaugural Speech

Posted by Kartilya On June - 30 - 2010

Ang pagtayo ko rito ngayon ay patunay na kayo ang aking tunay na lakas. Hindi ko inakala na darating tayo sa puntong ito, na ako’y manunumpa sa harap ninyo bilang inyong Pangulo. Hindi ko pinangarap maging tagapagtaguyod ng pag-asa at tagapagmana ng mga suliranin ng ating bayan.

Subjugating the Philippine System of Education

Posted by Christian Lloyd Espinoza On Oct - 2009

The transformation and reorientation of the current rotten system of education in the country is not possible without the development of a critical consciousness that reflects and acts upon the existing social (dis)order. Any meaningful change in our basic curriculum must be liberative of the docility that has long infringed our mentality, dissolving what little nationalist ideal there is left in the heart of every Filipino youth.

As the deadline for first-time voters registration nears the Comelec seems to have already ran out of registration forms

Posted by Kartilya On 10:25 PM

CHRISTIAN LLOYD M. ESPINOZA
October|2009

Kartilya associate editor and LLP chancellor on organization, Ronnie C. Clarion was seen on a local TV news this afternoon airing out his frustration over Comelec's inefficiency with the voters registration. Clarion along with hundreds of other supposedly first-time voters waited since day-break to register, and to no avail. The same case is true in many other localities nationwide.

It may seem bizarre but the Comelec seems to have already ran out of registration forms! It is quite unthinkable that while Comelec officials have for too many times assured the public that they are all set for the 2010 poll automation, the most basic process of registering voters was overlooked. Whether it was a miscalculation or downright irresponsibility, it all seems apparent that many will have to wait for the next election to get themselves registered.

Kabataan Partylist representative, Raymond Palatino, who has incessantly pleaded for the Comelec to extend the registration of first-time voters and has even filed a resolution in the Congress to grant workers a one-day break (with pay) to register, has now taken this cause to the high courts.

Legality of shortened voter registration questioned in the Supreme Court

30 October 2009

Youth solon, 1^st-time-voters file petition
As youths and new registrants endure long lines to register for the 2010 polls, Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino today questioned the legality of the Commission on Election’s shortening of the period of continuing registration up to tomorrow October 31.
Palatino today filed a Petition for Certiorari and Mandamus with Application for Preliminary Mandatory Injunction before the Supreme Court.