21/09/2025
UNITY STATEMENT: Youth Against Kurakot (YAK!) Coalition✊🏼
Akbayan Youth joins coalition of over 150 student councils, youth organizations, faith-based groups, and Sangguniang Kabataan officials in signing the Youth Against Kurakot (YAK!) Coalition’s Unity Statement, an urgent call to expose corruption and reclaim the future from a system that continues to rob Filipinos of dignity, rights, and hope.
We take on the challenge of moral leaders like Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, who urged the youth to "make corruption shameful again." In heeding this call, we refuse to be a haunted generation, paralyzed by the failures of the past, we march our way forward.
Corruption is not just about stolen funds. It is about stolen futures, students dropping out because classrooms were never built, and families flooded because flood control systems were siphoned by greed. These are not ghost stories; they are real consequences of a system that rewards plunder and evades accountability. The culture of denial must end. The cycle of abuse must be broken.
In this spirit, Akbayan Youth, together with the YAK! Coalition, calls on fellow youth, students, student councils, Sangguniang Kabataan officials, and communities of conscience to join the Trillion Peso March: Araw ng Dalangin at Pananagutan, on Sunday, September 21, 2025, 2:00 PM at the People Power Monument. This mobilization is a show of faith and outrage, a national day of prayer and accountability. We gather not just to protest, but to affirm a vision of governance that serves the people, not drowns them in neglect and stolen futures.
We stand for truth, for justice, and for the future that is rightfully ours. We stand to say: corruption is not the norm, it is shameful.
Tinatawag na tayo ng EDSA. Panagutin ang mga kurakot.