Various people and non-government organizations and advocates are launching a series of forums to provide information on the country\u2019s pressing issues and urge the electorate to vote for 2025 midterm election candidates that genuinely have Filipinos\u2019 interests at heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The series dubbed \u201cBayan Para sa Bayan<\/em>: A Voter\u2019s Guide\u201d is holding its first session on \u201cPagkain at Agrikulura<\/em>\u201d today October 18, 2024, at the IBON Center in Quezon City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The event will open with former Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) secretary and Kilusang Magbububukid ng Pilipinas<\/em> (KMP) Chairman Emeritus Rafael \u201cKa Paeng\u201d Mariano who will discuss the state of the country\u2019s food security and agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Special guest reactors will then share their views and where they think various candidates stand on this issue. The reactors are IBON research head Rosario Guzman, Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap<\/em> (Kadamay) national vice chairperson Estrelieta Bagasbas, and Atty. Shiela Magno of the Consumers Union of the Philippines (CUP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Election watchdog KontraDaya<\/em> represented by Sr. Maureen Catabian of the Religious of the Good Shepherd will then share their analysis of and prospects for the ongoing 2025 midterm electoral race and election day. An open forum will follow where the audience can forward their questions and thoughts as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bayan Para sa Bayan Voter\u2019s Guide Session #1 on Pagkain at Agrikultura is co-organized by the Samahan at Ugnayan ng mga Konsyumer para sa Ikauunlad ng Bayan (SUKI) Network, the Council for People\u2019s Development and Governance (CPDG), IBON Foundation, Agroecology X, and Altermidya.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Various people and non-government organizations and advocates launch a series of forums to provide information on the country\u2019s pressing issues and urge the electorate to vote for 2025 midterm election candidates that genuinely have Filipinos\u2019 interests at heart.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1,2048,14],"tags":[3660,597,2972,494,2804],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15634,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions\/15634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}