Youth volunteers harassed, red-tagged while campaigning in Davao City

Activists, netizens call out harassment on Kabataan Partylist volunteers

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Kabataan Partylist and netizens called out a Davao City resident who was caught on a Facebook video taunting the partylist volunteers and tearing their campaign flyer.  In a Facebook reel posted by the vlog Cap Lodi TV on April 23, the 100-second clip showed a person shouting against volunteers calling them, “Kayo mga fake news!” then tore a campaign leaflet handed to him and threw the shredded thing to the air, saying …

Youth volunteers harassed, red-tagged while campaigning in Davao City

CAGAYAN DE ORO — Youth volunteers of Kabataan Partylist were verbally harassed and allegedly red-tagged by a man while they were conducting house-to-house campaign in Matina Aplaya, Davao City, on Wednesday, April 23. A video circulating on social media showed that the man involved was accusing these volunteers in a loud voice that they were peddlers of “fake news.” Despite the advice to cool off, he refused to listen, tearing down a campaign fl…