ADVISORY: 'Stick with real issues!’ – presidentiables’ faces to be plastered

MEDIA ADVISORY
for Tomorrow, April 20

Presidential candidates told: Stick with real issues, please
Group to propose “radical” measures to uplift poor

As the presidential campaigns seem to have descended into a morass of personal attacks and mudslinging, the urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) urges the candidates: Stick with the real issues, please.

Along these lines, the group is about to propose a radical, although not entirely unheard-of, framework to immediately address the poor's fast-sinking living conditions: direct state support for the unemployed and underemployed, through unemployment benefits and the setting-up of 'unemployment offices' throughout the country.

As a way to launch this campaign, less than two weeks before the nation marks Labor Day and less than a month before the elections, members of the group will gather at Plaza Miranda in Manila tomorrow and plaster the faces of the four main protagonists in these elections -- Aquino, Villar, Estrada, and Teodoro -- with signs saying, "Stick with the real issues!" and bearing calls for the proposed new unemployment measures.

‘Stick with real issues!’ – presidentiables’ faces to be plastered
‘Direct state support’ for unemployed to be proposed
TOMORROW, April 20
10:00 AM, Plaza Miranda, Quiapo, Manila
Media Coverage is Requested.

For further details, please contact Jon Vincent Marin, Kadamay PIO | 0910.975.7660