(03/02/2004) QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES (Indymedia QC) -- Yesterday's national transport strike against unreasonably high oil prices successfully paralyzed Quezon City as well as the rest of Metro Manila and most provincial cities and towns including Central Luzon and Mindanao.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo resorted to threats with cancelations of the strikers' franchise to operate. Twelve activists from PISTON and KMU who joined the protests along Kalayaan Avenue in Quezon City were illegally arrested and detained for almost 15 hours by the police.

Militant labor center KMU called the strike a success as major oil companies were forced to rollback prices of LPG by P1.50 per kilogram or P17 per tank.

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