Renecio Santos Espiritu Jr., popularly known as Luke, is a lawyer and labor leader. He is the former national president, official spokesperson and labor organizer of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino. He was also previously the national president of the Solidarity of Unions in the Philippines for Empowerment and Reforms Federation.
Espiritu was a Board of Trustees member of the Freedom from Debt Coalition and served as legal counsel in its campaign against privatization against electricity. | Rappler
Safe re-opening of schools and transition to face-to-face classes
Ensure that quality internet is available to students and work to provide subsidies to ensure they can keep up in their classes (i.e., load or laptop subsidies)
Junking of Anti-Terror Law
Demand that campaigns declare online campaign expenditures beyond their official social media accounts (i.e., influencers engaged, unofficial groups or pages tapped, etc.)
Increased participation of the youth in local and national governance by allowing them to influence & craft legislation
Enact the right to an adequate food bill or the Zero Hunger Bill
Continue support for the rice tariffication law
Seeking climate change accountability from better developed, high-pollutant countries
Support for Open Pit Mining
Increase funding for mental health support
Reparations for Martial Law Victims & Retrieval of Marcos’ Ill-gotten Wealth
Criminalizing of Vote-buying
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