500 children joined the Children Speak Out Against Corruption! today at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani to commemorate the 1986 People Power revolution and to show their disgust over the tremendous corruption in the Arroyo Government.

The children from grass root communities, together with the child rights advocates of about 20 child-focused Non Government Organizations participated in the event. They held games for the children while conveying lessons on corruptions and state violence against children.

"Learning by doing." This is how child rights advocates teach children the different concepts related to their rights. And this is exactly how they taught children the right to freely express opinions and the value of collective action.

Children under the SALINLAHI Alliance for Children's Concerns took time out from school to show their support to Mr. Jun Lozada, "for courageously exposing the anomalous ZTE-NBN deal and in seeking accountability from the corruption-filled Arroyo administration."

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines, 8 February 2008 — American soldiers were with Filipino troops involved in the killing of seven Muslim civilians and a government soldier in the southern Philippines last Monday, a survivor in the “massacre” said yesterday.