Youth, Journalists, Lawmakers, Former Gov. Officials, Artists, Writers, and Constitutional Framers File 3 Petitions In One Day versus Anti-Terror Law

In an overwhelming show of resistance via jurisprudence, more than twenty different entities and personalities in lawmaking and governance have filed petitions calling unto the Supreme Court to declare the Anti-Terorrism Law unconstitutional

Youth groups who filed today were the Kabataang Tagapagtanggol ng Karapatan, Youth for Human Rights and Democracy, Youth Act Now Against Tyranny, Millenials PH, SPARK – Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan, GoodGov PH, Liberal Youth of the Philippines, Aksyon Kabataan, La Salle Debate Society, DLSUD University Student Government, Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral ng mga Paaralang Loyola ng Ateneo de Manila, UP Diliman University Student Council, University of Santo Tomas Central Student Council, National Union of Students of the Philippines, Youth Strike 4 Climate Philippines (the sole youth environmental group who signed), and the Student Council Alliance of the Philippines.

Meanwhile, the arts and journalist groups who filed the petition today were National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, Concerned Artists of the Philippines chairperson Leonilo Doloricon, Ces Drilon, Inday Espina-Varona, former University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication Deans Luis Teodoro and Roland Tolentino, the former of which is the founder of Altermidya – People’s Alternative Media Network, and Maria Ressa, founder of Rappler.

The number of petitions that have been filed have reached 14, with the first eight having been consolidated into one by the Supreme Court, with more expected to be filed in the upcoming days.

Here were the petitions filed on this day: