INDEPENDENT
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
- AB Humanities (Ateneo de Manila)
- PhD Sociology (Princeton University)
PUBLIC SERVICE RECORD
- Former Akbayan Representative (2010-Jan 2015), resigned after Mamasapano Massacre in 2015
PLATFORMS
- Workers’ welfare (Security of Tenure Bill would be the first bill he would pass)
- Agrarian Reform
- Free education up to the tertiary level
- Good governance (passing of Freedom of Information Act)
MISCELLANEOUS
- Professor, sociology, Up Diliman
- Co-Founder of Bangkok-based think tank Focus on the Global South
- Critical of Pres. Aquino
- Coordinated Anti-Martial Law Coalition & established Phils. Human Rights Lobby in Washington, DC
- Went on hunger strike to publicize human rights abuses in RP
- Former CPP member
- Broke into the World Bank headquarters to steal confidential documents connecting IMF/World Bank to the Marcoses
- On board of directors of the International Forum on Globalization Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Board Member of Food First, the International Forum on Globalization, and the Transnational Institute
- Anti-Marcos
