3-day transport strike against jeepney phaseout, mounted anew. Jeepney drivers and operators again launched a transport strike in Metro Manila last August 14-16 against the anti-poor and pro-foreign transportation “modernization” program. They condemned Ferdinand Marcos Jr for refusing to heed the Senate resolution suspending the program until the issues raised by the drivers and operators are addressed. All the senators signed the resolution except Risa Hontiveros of Akbayan. Piston and Manibela led the transport strike.

Calls to scrap MATATAG curriculum. Around 100 teachers and education workers under ACT protested before the DepEd in Pasig City on August 15 calling for the immediate scrapping of the MATATAG curriculum. They said it imposes excessive workloads and burdens teachers, aggravated by meager salary increases of the Marcos regime. They criticized the implementation of curriculumn without an assessment of the learning crisis, and the lack of genuine and democratic consultation with teachers and education workers. Its excessive workload and shortened hours per subject area are exhausting teachers.

Petitions for writ of amparo and habeas data filed with the Supreme Court. The families and lawyers of the disappeared Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil de Jesus (Bazoo) picketed before the Supreme Court in Manila on August 14 after filing a writ of amparo and writ of habeas data in court. They filed this after the Court of Appeals dismissed earlier petition in September 2023.

Repression of student leaders. In Tacloban City, police violently dispersed a protest action of UP student leaders on August 16. They were in the city to attend the annual UP student council gathering. Police dragged and handcuffed a student leader. Police cordoned 100 students and detained them for two hours.