On Monday last week, the officers of the Artists Welfare Project, Inc. or AWPI presented an excerpt from Ugoy ng Duyan at the Senate floor, preliminary to the manifestation of Senator Grace Poe-Llamanzares of her filing of Senate Bill No. 2758 or “Artists’ Welfare Protection and Information Act of 2015.”

Section 2 of the landmark bill states, as Declaration of Policy: “The State shall protect and promote the rights of an artist to be considered as a person actually engaged in cultural work and to benefit from all legal, social, and economic advantages pertaining to the status of workers.”

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