Youth Activism

Yesterday while watching the news I chance upon a report regarding 50 students/activist that were arrested while having their demonstration at Malacanang Palace. The students were comprised of about 200 to 300 in numbers who stormed to the palace to protest the alleged pricey dinner of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her entourage in the United States when they visited early this month.
The students were shouting at the top of their lungs, the alleged corruption of Mrs. Arroyo's government popularly known to the common tao as the doing of the president's husband,First Gentleman Mike Arroyo. The protests now were being done in the most recent accusations against the Arroyo government of the luxurious dinner that the President and the whole entourage of her visit to the United States mainly comprised by Senators, Congressman, and Advisers had while the nations grieves the passing of Former President Corazon C. Aquino. The president whom have appeared in ads and interviews regarding how the government should lead by example in being thrifty and conscious about spending in these time of financial crisis seems to have forgotten what she said. As the nation suffers the lingering effect of the Global financial crisis that has affected both those developed and developing countries, there they were enjoying themselves with luxurious foods for the night that the price equivalent could very well feed thousand of families for two to three weeks in their own country.
The report also noted the arrest of 50 or more students whom the police said were being an annoyance to the peacefulness of the state. Almost all of those arrested and not sufeered minor to major bruises when the Presidential Security Guards (PSG) used force to disperse the protesting students.