Youth Reform Movement

With a following of 458,000 on Facebook as of June 2020, The Legacy of Miriam Defensor Santiago is a Facebook page initially organized by founding vice chairperson Paolo Quimbo for the presidential campaign. Upon Defensor Santiago's death, the page has transformed into the organ of YRMPH, presenting the organization's opinion on pertinent issues and current events, with citations of legal doctrines and philosophies espoused by Defensor Santiago through her authored legislative bills, textbooks, interviews, and speeches found on the internet.[12][13]

Pamaskong Bigas ni Miriam is an annual gift-giving project of the late Miriam Defensor Santiago while she was still alive. In 2016, under the leadership of chairperson Rhyan Malandog and core members Ejhay Talagtag and Vincent Agustin, YRMPH formally took over the continuation of the gift-giving project with the help of private donors and other organizations. In this project, the organization deliberates on which impoverished barangays in the Philippines will receive the sacks of rice to be shared with the beneficiaries during December of each year.[14]

The flagship project of YRMPH is the Youth Reform Congress which was first held at the Quezon City Hall on March 4, 2017. The conference was a partnership project with the City Government of Quezon City under Mayor Joy Belmonte. The event was covered by the University of the Philippines' DZUP and When In Manila.[15]

YRMPH held Harana Para Kay Miriam at the Loyola Memorial Park on the late senator's first death anniversary on September 29, 2017. The event was an open-mic night organized by Rissa Ofilada, former Chief of Staff of Defensor Santiago, attended by family and friends of the late senator. Among the featured performers was Jes Dizon,[16][17] who was known for her impersonations of the late senator in theatre and television skits such as her performances at UP SAMASKOM'S Live Aids and at Sunday PinaSaya on GMA Network.[18]

On November 29, 2017, at the height of the Philippine government's crackdown on illegal drugs came the issues on human rights abuses by the enforcing authorities. YRMPH executed the organization's first of many several university-based conference events, under the helm of Jan Langomez. YRMPH partnered with the student council of the Philippine Women's University, and launched TALKhang which tackled the Philippine Drug War from perspectives of different public sectors. The title of the event was a wordplay on the informal name used to refer to the government's crackdown on illegal drugs which is tokhang.

A core member and then California State University East Bay communication instructor Julius Fernandez rallied the organization through a Change.org petition page[19] to lobby at the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives for the posthumous conferment of the Quezon Service Cross to Defensor Santiago in 2017. The Senate quickly moved for the nomination, securing majority of votes for the conferment with the leadership of Senators Grace Poe and Sonny Angara.[20] The Quezon Service Cross is the highest national recognition of the Republic of the Philippines, necessitating concurrence of both houses of Congress and approval of the President. The awarding ceremony was held at the Malacañang Palace on December 3, 2018, attended by the Youth Reform Movement and Heart Evangelista.[21][22]

At the height of the Quo warranto petition against Maria Lourdes Sereno and with consideration to favorable words and praise delivered by the late Senate Defensor Santiago towards Maria Lourdes Sereno,[23][24] YRMPH, under the leadership of Paolo Quimbo and Julius Fernandez, invited then Chief Justice on-leave Maria Lourdes Sereno to speak at the forum held at the University of the Philippines Diliman on May 5, 2018. The event was entitled The Mumshie on Fire: Speak Truth To Power in an effort to boost awareness of the quo warranto issue among younger generations who have been exposed to the Filipino slang word mumshie, meaning mother, and to make the event more informal amid having a guest of such stature.[25][26]

Paskong Manileño is a joint project of YRMPH with the City Government of Manila under Mayor Isko Moreno, and the University of the East-Sandigan sa Silangan organization catering to the elderly. It was a project coordinated by Vincent Agustin, held on December 21, 2019, at the Home for the Aged-Luwalhati ng Maynila facility.[27]

While in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine government prioritized the revision of the Human Security Act, gaining considerable amount of dissent from religious and civil society groups espousing civil liberties and human rights. The revised law, entitled "Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020" has already merited Congressional approval in both houses by the time that YRMPH, as initiated by its vice chairperson Paolo Quimbo and core member Julius Fernandez, planned to execute the #BOOsina (a wordplay on 'boo' and the Filipino word busina, which means 'automobile horn') campaign - an invitation for Filipinos to honk their horns for 12 minutes on June 12, 2020, coinciding with the commemoration of the Independence Day while practicing physical distancing prescribed for health reasons.[28] The main location was at the University of the Philippines Diliman. The protestation occurred amidst stern warnings from the Department of Justice on the prohibitions for mass gatherings.[29] Former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno joined the #BOOsina campaign.[30]

Coming from the dearth in a widespread centralized effort for donation drives to support the flooded communities at the onset of typhoons Ulysses and Rolly, YRMPH partnered with youth leaders in Rizal, led by Cyron Aranas, and created Ambagan Para Sa Bayan via Facebook, with a fully transparent tracker of donors publicly visible through Google Sheets platform. The drive garnered an estimated Php 160,000.00.[31]