MANILA, Philippines -- Surface the "the disappeared." Stop the abductions. Pull the military out of the villages.

These demands -- not toys -- were on the Christmas wish list of children whose parents had been abducted by the military or whose families had been displaced by government operations against communist rebels in the countryside.

President Gloria Arroyo may be away, but this did not stop 300 children and children’s rights activists from claiming what had always been denied more mature activists:  Mendiola Bridge.

Photo report of the activity on Arkibong Bayan.