HS students hold picket at school in support of suspended student-bloggers
Call on others to express their grievances in their schools
Press Release
January 19, 2009

High school students from different schools in Metro Manila trooped to the Quezon City Science High School today to express their support to the four students whose 10-day suspension as penalty for posting [...]

On the third day of classes in the hundredth year of the University of the Philippines (UP), a freshman from Cotabato province, a Chemistry major at UP in Diliman, Quezon City, had to drop out. Together with his father, the brokenhearted young man went to see each of his instructors to have his subjects invalidated.

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During this registration period, nothing can be more unwelcome than the host of exorbitant fees that will be sucked from the pockets of families already burdened by the soaring prices of basic commodities and worsening economic conditions.

Students from state universities University of the Philippines (UP), Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), and other state-run schools, want their tuition fees rolled back and miscellaneous fees which were collected this enrollment refunded in light of the president’s announcement that a tuition moratorium be implemented in state colleges and universities this semester.

As President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is set to make a statement on tuition fees and other education woes today, members of the League of Filipino Students (LFS) led a protest action today calling for meaningful reforms in the education system.

On the 27th of April, during the final phase of the Centennial Commencement Exercises in UP Diliman, two former Student Regents of the University of the Philippines, J.M. Terry L. Ridon (2007 UP SR) and Ken Leonard Ramos (2005 UP SR), were almost mauled and forcibly pushed like common criminals and no-gooders by members of the UP Police Force (UPF) and the UP Diliman Social Services Brigade (SSB) as they were going up the center stage in Quezon Hall to approach former colleagues in the Board of Regents and the UP Administration, while attempting to conclusively seek clearance from the Vice-Chancellor for Community Affairs of UP Diliman (UPD-VCCA) for the coordinated and traditional lightning protest rally seeking to challenge new UP graduates to Serve the People, as per the agreement of former SR Ridon and the VCCA prior to the start of the University Commencement Exercises.

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Serve the People!
Tunay! Palaban! Makabayan! STAND UP!

“In the interest of the Iskolar ng Bayan suffering under the harsh economic conditions engendered by the disregard of the Arroyo regime for the basic rights and needs of the people, we are determined to take effective steps to halt the impending lab fee hikes and to boldly assert that the new laboratory fee hikes in Broadcast Communication was railroaded. We persist in our call for greater state subsidy and demand the re-channeling of the people’s funds from widespread corruption to social services such as education.”

No to Lab Fee Hikes!
No to Commercialization of Education!

STUDENT ALLIANCE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS IN UP – CMC
(STAND-UP CMC)
Maalam. May Pakialam. Naninindigan.

Please sign up the manifesto near the CMC Student Council booth today to register our initial opposition before the consultation on Friday, 12nn at the CMC auditorium. Please visit our online manifesto at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/labmenot/ and register your dissent against the imposed and proposed lab fee hikes.

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BAGUIO CITY

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Five activists were arrested while some others were injured after scuffling with police enforcers who tried to prevent them from staging a lightning rally in front of the presidential mansion in Baguio City late Tuesday afternoon.

Lightning rally vs Arroyo surprises police in Baguio

Lozada continues ‘truth caravan’ in UP Los Baños visit

MANILA, Philippines – Fresh from his much talked-about visit in Cebu province, ZTE deal witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr on Tuesday flew to Laguna to attend yet another “truth forum” at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños.

GMA NEWS.TV: Lozada continues ‘truth caravan’ in UP Los Baños visit

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