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Protest assembly on Friday not sanctioned —Ateneo
Ateneo de Manila University stated that a protest assembly held on Friday, November 20, 2020, at its Loyola Heights campus gates was not sanctioned by the university administration.
The university confirmed its awareness of the scheduled protest activity.
This protest, along with another one on November 17, did not receive any sanction from Ateneo de Manila.
Youth protesters were seen in a video calling for an academic break to allow students to recover from recent typhoons.
They also aimed to voice their grievances regarding the Duterte administration's perceived inadequacies in managing calamities and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The combined death toll from typhoons Rolly and Ulysses was recorded at almost a hundred.
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