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Pictures: (Left) Diliman Commune, 1971; (Right) Poster ng nalalapit na event ng JMA Iba na talaga ang UP ngayon. 40 years ago, pinamunuan ng mga estudyante ng UP ang isang uprising laban sa pagdeklara ni Marcos ng batas militar. Isa ito sa mga pinakamalaki at mahalagang event noong dekada 70, kung saan nakita ang kapangyarihan ng militanteng kabataan at progresibong pagkilos. Marami talaga ang nakiisa. Di mo maiimagine. 40 years later, eto tayo. UP JMA (We Lead). Sila na nga ang mga bagong leader sa UP. Okay, so nililinaw ko na hindi naman ito isang panawagan ng pagboycott sa event ng JMA. (Sino ba naman ako para sundin ng tao? At malay ko ba, baka mapadaan din ako sa event na ito.) Naniniwala ako sa galing ng org at sa members nito. Lahat ng projects at events nila, dinudumog, malaki ang kita at maganda talaga. Kamo, mas mabilis na silang makahatak ngayon ng members kumpara sa mga MO (Mass Orgs). Kung meron lang akong maipapakitang proven na datos ng comparison ng pagtaas ng myembro ng JMA sa pagbaba ng members ng Stand-UP o ng Anakbayan, mas maganda sana. Kaso lahat naman yun ay assumptions ko lang. Mere observations.  Tingnan mo noong huling 3-day Budget Cut Rally sa UP noong September, kung bibilangin ang nakiisa at umattend ng events noon, baka mas madami pang umattend na Isko sa AdHoc at sa kung ano pang parties na usong-uso ngayon sa kabataan. Totoo naman na nagbago na ang timpla ng mga Iskolar ng Bayan. Mas marami ng burgis ngayon. At di na gaanong patok sa kabataan ang magrally at gumawa ng ingay sa kalsada. Mas uso na ang blogging o ang pagti-tweet o ang pag-like sa FB. Party, party na lang.  Bakit nga kaya? Dahil ba wala ng Marcos? Wala nang naibabalitang karahasan sa TV? Dahil ba yun sa pagdami ng burgis na kaya namang magbayad ng nagmamahal na tuition fee sa UP?  Marami naman daw kasing paraan para makatulong sa bayan. Oh well, I pity you Iskolar ng Bayan. Eventually you’ll leave the country, make money for yourself, (magtravel nang magtravel kasi yun ang pangarap mo), enjoy life, maybe send some money home, and there.. forget you were once an Iskolar ng BAYAN. PS: Attend tayo sa Release the High. Mukhang masaya dun! :))Pictures: (Left) Diliman Commune, 1971; (Right) Poster ng nalalapit na event ng JMA Iba na talaga ang UP ngayon. 40 years ago, pinamunuan ng mga estudyante ng UP ang isang uprising laban sa pagdeklara ni Marcos ng batas militar. Isa ito sa mga pinakamalaki at mahalagang event noong dekada 70, kung saan nakita ang kapangyarihan ng militanteng kabataan at progresibong pagkilos. Marami talaga ang nakiisa. Di mo maiimagine. 40 years later, eto tayo. UP JMA (We Lead). Sila na nga ang mga bagong leader sa UP. Okay, so nililinaw ko na hindi naman ito isang panawagan ng pagboycott sa event ng JMA. (Sino ba naman ako para sundin ng tao? At malay ko ba, baka mapadaan din ako sa event na ito.) Naniniwala ako sa galing ng org at sa members nito. Lahat ng projects at events nila, dinudumog, malaki ang kita at maganda talaga. Kamo, mas mabilis na silang makahatak ngayon ng members kumpara sa mga MO (Mass Orgs). Kung meron lang akong maipapakitang proven na datos ng comparison ng pagtaas ng myembro ng JMA sa pagbaba ng members ng Stand-UP o ng Anakbayan, mas maganda sana. Kaso lahat naman yun ay assumptions ko lang. Mere observations.  Tingnan mo noong huling 3-day Budget Cut Rally sa UP noong September, kung bibilangin ang nakiisa at umattend ng events noon, baka mas madami pang umattend na Isko sa AdHoc at sa kung ano pang parties na usong-uso ngayon sa kabataan. Totoo naman na nagbago na ang timpla ng mga Iskolar ng Bayan. Mas marami ng burgis ngayon. At di na gaanong patok sa kabataan ang magrally at gumawa ng ingay sa kalsada. Mas uso na ang blogging o ang pagti-tweet o ang pag-like sa FB. Party, party na lang.  Bakit nga kaya? Dahil ba wala ng Marcos? Wala nang naibabalitang karahasan sa TV? Dahil ba yun sa pagdami ng burgis na kaya namang magbayad ng nagmamahal na tuition fee sa UP?  Marami naman daw kasing paraan para makatulong sa bayan. Oh well, I pity you Iskolar ng Bayan. Eventually you’ll leave the country, make money for yourself, (magtravel nang magtravel kasi yun ang pangarap mo), enjoy life, maybe send some money home, and there.. forget you were once an Iskolar ng BAYAN. PS: Attend tayo sa Release the High. Mukhang masaya dun! :))

Pictures: (Left) Diliman Commune, 1971; (Right) Poster ng nalalapit na event ng JMA

Iba na talaga ang UP ngayon.

40 years ago, pinamunuan ng mga estudyante ng UP ang isang uprising laban sa pagdeklara ni Marcos ng batas militar. Isa ito sa mga pinakamalaki at mahalagang event noong dekada 70, kung saan nakita ang kapangyarihan ng militanteng kabataan at progresibong pagkilos. Marami talaga ang nakiisa. Di mo maiimagine.

40 years later, eto tayo. UP JMA (We Lead). Sila na nga ang mga bagong leader sa UP. Okay, so nililinaw ko na hindi naman ito isang panawagan ng pagboycott sa event ng JMA. (Sino ba naman ako para sundin ng tao? At malay ko ba, baka mapadaan din ako sa event na ito.) Naniniwala ako sa galing ng org at sa members nito. Lahat ng projects at events nila, dinudumog, malaki ang kita at maganda talaga.

Kamo, mas mabilis na silang makahatak ngayon ng members kumpara sa mga MO (Mass Orgs). Kung meron lang akong maipapakitang proven na datos ng comparison ng pagtaas ng myembro ng JMA sa pagbaba ng members ng Stand-UP o ng Anakbayan, mas maganda sana. Kaso lahat naman yun ay assumptions ko lang. Mere observations. 

Tingnan mo noong huling 3-day Budget Cut Rally sa UP noong September, kung bibilangin ang nakiisa at umattend ng events noon, baka mas madami pang umattend na Isko sa AdHoc at sa kung ano pang parties na usong-uso ngayon sa kabataan.

Totoo naman na nagbago na ang timpla ng mga Iskolar ng Bayan. Mas marami ng burgis ngayon. At di na gaanong patok sa kabataan ang magrally at gumawa ng ingay sa kalsada. Mas uso na ang blogging o ang pagti-tweet o ang pag-like sa FB. Party, party na lang. 

Bakit nga kaya? Dahil ba wala ng Marcos? Wala nang naibabalitang karahasan sa TV? Dahil ba yun sa pagdami ng burgis na kaya namang magbayad ng nagmamahal na tuition fee sa UP? 

Marami naman daw kasing paraan para makatulong sa bayan.

Oh well, I pity you Iskolar ng Bayan. Eventually you’ll leave the country, make money for yourself, (magtravel nang magtravel kasi yun ang pangarap mo), enjoy life, maybe send some money home, and there.. forget you were once an Iskolar ng BAYAN.

PS: Attend tayo sa Release the High. Mukhang masaya dun! :))

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Nakalimutan Na Ang Diyos - The Wuds from Rock-Rockan Vol. 2

The Wuds — At Nakalimutan Ang Diyos

Malaking bahay, Magarang kotse, Maraming Pera
Magandang asawa, May mga anak, magandang damit
Masarap na pagkain sikat na sikat kasi may pangalan
Pero nakalimutan ang diyos

Inaalay ko partikular kay Manny Pangilinan. Matakot ka na. Ganid.

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unibersidadngpilipinas: Eugene Domingo, Jon Santos, Chris Martinez, Direk Nick Olanka, Mimi Aringo, and Karen Dematera - all from UP REP! Who knows.. baka ikaw na ang susunod!!! The UP Repertory Company, the official university performing group for Philippine Theater, is now open for application! Attend our Applicants Orientation on Saturday (Jan. 21) | 9am | Room 104B Vinzons Hall, UP Diliman. Pramis, pasabog kami magpa-Apps Orientation! Click attending here: http://www.facebook.com/events/277184882345668/ Sayang kulang pa sa kalyo yung mukha ko para jumoin sa Rep. :)) View Larger

unibersidadngpilipinas:

Eugene Domingo, Jon Santos, Chris Martinez, Direk Nick Olanka, Mimi Aringo, and Karen Dematera - all from UP REP! Who knows.. baka ikaw na ang susunod!!!

The UP Repertory Company, the official university performing group for Philippine Theater, is now open for application!

Attend our Applicants Orientation on Saturday (Jan. 21) | 9am | Room 104B Vinzons Hall, UP Diliman.

Pramis, pasabog kami magpa-Apps Orientation! Click attending here: http://www.facebook.com/events/277184882345668/

Sayang kulang pa sa kalyo yung mukha ko para jumoin sa Rep. :))

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For as long as oppression and exploitation exists, the Left will persist — in various forms of struggle — to challenge the oppressors and to continue to touch our conscience. This country needs the Left’s ideology and dedication that goes beyond loyalty to family, clan or a narrow social circle: a sense of community and nationhood. If all the progressive forces of the Left could unite around a national development agenda for the people’s welfare and upliftment and overcome sectarianism — and unity not based on a strict doctrinaire line is necessary — it is not farfetched that in the future the progressive Left can strategically share power or even gain power like their counterparts in Latin America, Japan and Europe. 

- Roland G. Simbulan, 2008

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Do you even know him? Today marks the first death anniversary of journalist/environmentalist Gerry “Ka Gerry” Ortega.  *** NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES Statement (January 24, 2012)    A YEAR AFTER ORTEGA’S KILLING, JUSTICE REMAINS ELUSIVE  Today, January 24, marks the first year since broadcaster and environmentalist Dr. Gerry Ortega was gunned down in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Like all 150 Filipino journalists murdered since 1986, justice has remained elusive in the Ortega murder case. Yes, all, because, of the 10 cases that have actually led to convictions, only the gunmen have been punished. No mastermind in the murder of a journalist has ever been taken to account. What does make Ortega’s case stand out is that quick action by authorities following his murder established what appear to be clear links between those who carried out the hit and those who ordered it. This left everyone hopeful that, unlike all the other media killings, the resolution of the Ortega murder would actually see the first quick apprehension, prosecution and conviction of a mastermind. Read more End Impunity! Justice now for all victims of political killings!

Do you even know him?

Today marks the first death anniversary of journalist/environmentalist Gerry “Ka Gerry” Ortega. 

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NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES Statement (January 24, 2012)

 

 A YEAR AFTER ORTEGA’S KILLING, JUSTICE REMAINS ELUSIVE

 Today, January 24, marks the first year since broadcaster and environmentalist Dr. Gerry Ortega was gunned down in Puerto Princesa, Palawan.

Like all 150 Filipino journalists murdered since 1986, justice has remained elusive in the Ortega murder case.

Yes, all, because, of the 10 cases that have actually led to convictions, only the gunmen have been punished. No mastermind in the murder of a journalist has ever been taken to account.

What does make Ortega’s case stand out is that quick action by authorities following his murder established what appear to be clear links between those who carried out the hit and those who ordered it. This left everyone hopeful that, unlike all the other media killings, the resolution of the Ortega murder would actually see the first quick apprehension, prosecution and conviction of a mastermind.

Read more

End Impunity! Justice now for all victims of political killings!

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Excerpt from by E. San Juan, Jr.’s INTER/CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY: Introducing Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Up to the thirties and before World War II, when thousands of non-English-speaking Filipinos died defending U.S. sovereignty over the country, Filipinos were portrayed as “a very peculiar mass, a heterogeneous compound of inefficient humanity, a ‘jumble of save tribes’ that cried for order and pacification. Like the Negro, Chinaman, and Indian, Filipinos were ‘alien races…incapable of civilized self-government’” (Doty 1996, 37, 43)

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The Philippine landscape is familiarly tropical and East Indian. But the world into which you have stepped is unlike anything of which you have not yet had experience in the Orient. It is Spain-diluted, indeed, distorted, and overlaid with Americanism.

— Aldous Huxley

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thehues-upd: Before, the lagoon was just an area filled with tall grass and a few trees. But as time passed by, the area became like a forest, filled with tall, sturdy trees which offers relaxation to anyone who visits. Countless faces have walked passed. Several footsteps accompanied by laughter, by different discussions on love, friendship, life. The trees are silent witnesses to stories of life shared by people who seek their shade. Standing still, providing a silent relaxation venue amidst the chaos. Those trees served as an escape from the problems brought by the life in the city and the university. The lagoon served as a sanctuary, the tall trees served as a boundary line that keeps chaos outside and peacefulness inside. It had been truly a venue for changes and richness of life, as presented by the people who unconsciously leave a piece of their life’s story behind. Words by Rafael Samson Photo by Samantha Gonzales View Larger

thehues-upd:

Before, the lagoon was just an area filled with tall grass and a few trees. But as time passed by, the area became like a forest, filled with tall, sturdy trees which offers relaxation to anyone who visits. Countless faces have walked passed. Several footsteps accompanied by laughter, by different discussions on love, friendship, life. The trees are silent witnesses to stories of life shared by people who seek their shade. Standing still, providing a silent relaxation venue amidst the chaos. Those trees served as an escape from the problems brought by the life in the city and the university. The lagoon served as a sanctuary, the tall trees served as a boundary line that keeps chaos outside and peacefulness inside. It had been truly a venue for changes and richness of life, as presented by the people who unconsciously leave a piece of their life’s story behind.

Words by Rafael Samson

Photo by Samantha Gonzales

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