Crises and

SupPRESSion

College Editors Guild of the Philippines-NCR

July 15, 2011 | Philippine Normal University

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As society is perpetually drowned

with crises, the writer and the

reader alike are also perpetually

suppressed. Sectors of the society have looked

back on Aquino’s first year as

president of the Philippines and

have gauged his promise of

change. His first year, being the

barometer of the people on how

the following years will be like

have clearly proven the inutility

and incompetence of his administration. This has shattered

the then high popularity rating of

Aquino giving the avenue to the

people to be disillusioned.

Landless Tillers

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less

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Republika ng Haciendero75 percent of the populationColossal failure to

address agrarian predicamentDistribution of Hacienda Luisita7 out of 10 farmers

don’t have their own land to tillLand conversion and

grabbing

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less

Tille

rs

Source: IBON Foundation

LANDLORD/CLAIMANT

HACIENDA/PROVINCE

HECTARES

Coujangco-Aquino

Hacienda Luisita (Tarlac)

6, 453

Eduardo Cojuangco

Negros Occidental

5, 000

Sobrepeñas and Sy

Families

Batangas 5, 000

Vicente Veloso Leyte 430

Yulo Family and real estate

developers

Laguna 400

Luis Villafuerte

Bulacan 348

Gregorio Araneta III

Bulacan 311

Pineda Family Pampanga 208

Humberto Solis

Pangasinan 11

Land

less

Tille

rs

While the wage of farmworkers continues to

intensify, agricultural, fishing

and forestry corporations in

the Top 1, 000 saw an increase in their income “more than three times from

PhP 674 million in 2001 to

PhP 2.3 billion in 2009. The PhP 8 billion budget of

the NFA was realigned for the

Conditional Cash Transfer

(CCT) program “breeds the

culture of mendicancy” as

order by the World Bank.

Land

less

Tille

rs

Public Private Partnership Program,

land grabbing and conversion

Land-grabbing does not only

include their land, it also includes

the displacement of thousands of

families. Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX)

and Sta. Rosa-Tarlac national road in

Tarlac City and La Paz town;

the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and

Freeport Act of 2010 (APECO) in

Casiguran; the Food Basket project in Maria

Aurora, Aurora province; Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union

Expressway (TPLEX) North Luzon East Expressway (NLEX

East), Central Luzon Expressway (CLEX).

Land

less

Tille

rs Under Oplan Bayanihan 45 have been victims of

extrajudicial killings, more

than 50 percent of this are

farmers

UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOY

ED, UNEMPLOYED

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As landlessness and harassment prevail in the countryside, Filipinos are forced to flock the cities for the hope of a better living condition and become the industry’s foundation- workers.

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No statement on wage increase in his first SONA

11.3 million Filipinos have no jobs9 out of 10 who have no

jobs are high school and have reached the collegiate level51.1 % of this are aged

15-24 years oldAquino says: job-skills mismatch and lack of education is the reason for the high unemployment rate

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PhP 404 minimum wage

PhP 1, 010 daily standard cost of living for a family of six70% of the population

are living with PhP 104 or less a day

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COMMODITY

BEFORE NOW

Diesel (per liter)

PhP 34.25 PhP 45.70

LPG (per tank)

PhP 614 PhP 721

MERALCO (per kWh)

PhP 1.49 PhP 1.64

NAPOCOR (per kWh)

PhP 4.34 PhP 4.67

MAYNILAD (per cu.m.)

PhP 33.42 PhP 40.80

SLEX (PUVs)

PhP 43 PhP 172

NFA Rice (per kilo)

PhP 25 PhP 27

Source: Bayan

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Jeepney fares increased by

PhP 1 Taxi flag down rate is at PhP 40 The almost tripled increase

of NLEX and SLEX toll rates

The MRT/LRT fare hikes are

also on its way. Aquino said that there is nothing he can do to lower

down the prices and that wage increase is not possible for private corporations will be broke.

UNDE

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The BIG 3 [Shell, Petron and Caltex] rakes in PhP 300 million excess profits every dayForbes Asia recorded

that the net income of the 25 richest Filipino is at US $ 21.4 billion or more than one trillion Pesos. This is as big as the

combined income of the poorest 55.4 million Filipinos.

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NAME GOVERNMENT POSITION

CORPORATION

Cesar Purisima Dept. of Finance Secretary

SGV & Co.Ernst & Young

Gregory Domingo

Dept. of Trade and Industry

SM Investments Inc.Chase Manhattan BankChemical Bank

Jose Rene Almendras

Dept. of Energy Secretary

Manila Water CompanyAboitiz & Co.

Rogelio Singson Dept. of Public Works and Highways Secretary

Maynilad Water Service

Jose de Jesus Dept. of Transportation and Communication Secretary

MERALCO

Alberto Lim Dept. of Tourism Secretary

Makati Business Club

Cayetano Paderanga

Planning Secretary Philippine Stock Exchange

Source: IBON Foundation

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This backed by: Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Employers Confederation of

the Philippines (ECOP) Management Association of

the Philippines (MAP) Makati Business Club (MBC)

Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philexport)

foreign chambers of commerce where people who mostly funded Aquino’s

campaign belong.

UNDE

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REMP

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PLOY

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The Philippine Airlines, owned by Lucio Tan, used the contractualization

scheme to convert some 2, 600 regular PAL workers to contractual workers and dissolve the union.

ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation sacked more than 100 employees after the latter pushed for their rights.

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Cases such as these are not

new in the Aquino administration such as Nestle,

Triumph, Pepsi, Advan, Com

Foods, Razon’s and Absolute to

name a few. BPO, the sunshine industry

By July 1, 2011, all workers

need to contribute for nine

months before they could claim

their benefit from Philhealth.

Dole plantation workers in

South Cotabato and Lepanto

mining corporations in Benguet

are also victims of militarization

and union busting.

UNDE

RPAI

D,

UNDE

REMP

LOYE

D,

UNEM

PLOY

ED On PPP 1, 200 LRT employees are

going to lose their jobs Temporary jobs due to

infrastructure projects

DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

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Due to lack of job opportunities in the country, Filipinos are forced to leave and look for greener pastures abroad giving the venue of having a new breed of workers – overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

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ABRO

AD Calamities in New Zealand and JapanUnrest in the Middle

East-North African region

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Only 10 percent of OFWs in Libya were able to go home and this was not due to the assistance given by the Aquino administration

The administration permits OFWs to work in Syria and Bahrain and let

them sign a waiver that they voluntarily went to the said countries despite

the heightening conflict

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Saudization Saudi nationals first policy Foreign workers who have

worked for more than six years will no longer be issued with working permits. 350, 000 out of the 1.2

million OFWs in Saudi are

expected to be affected. 12 Filipino engineers were

already terminated by a consultancy firm.

DOLE could only provide 54, 000 jobs here.

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3 Filipinos sentenced with death penalty for being drug mules in China

All the administration said is that they have done what they could

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OFW SITUATION NUMBERS

OFWs on death row

122

OFWs detained abroad

7, 000

OFWs, women and children

stranded in the Middle East

20, 000

OFWs leaving daily

4, 500

OFWs leaving every year

1.6 million

OFWs still at Libya

14, 000

Dead bodies repatriated everyday

6 to 10

Source: Migrante International

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Instead of giving proper assistance, OFWs are paid back with maltreatment from the

government Agnes Tenorio, Hong

Kong domestic helper Nerissa Neri, raped and

jailed in Saudi beyond her sentence

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OFW remittances reached $18 billion at the end of 2010 according to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Budget cut From PhP 19 billion, the budget was cut down to PhP 10.98 billion Assistance to Nationals

fund is PhP 81.9 million Legal Assistance Fund is

PhP 27.3 million

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Apart from the remittances, maltreatment, neglect and budget cut, OFWs are also being milked dry by the government before they leave country.

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EXORBITANT FEES

AMOUNT

76 signatures from various documents

PhP 7, 600

Passport (minimum)

PhP 1, 200

POEA Fee (new hire)

PhP 7, 500

OWWA Fee ($ 25) PhP 1, 300

Medicare PhP 900

Pag-Ibig PhP 600

Others PhP 1, 000+

TOTAL Php 20, 000 (average)

Source: Migrante International

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Mandatory insurance coverage

e-Passport application overseas

which is worth $60 (minimum)

Affidavit of Support in United

Arab Emirates (UAE), Macau and

selected countries in Europe

proposed social security coverage and proposed mandatory Pag-Ibig contribution.

With 1.6 million OFWs leaving

every day, the government

collects an estimated PhP 32.8

billion from the fees.   The labor export policy of the

country legitimizes the forced

migration among Filipinos,

leaving their families and

children behind.

MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION

MINI

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SUPP

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ION With more than 4, 000

OFWs leaving every day, 360, 000 children are left behind who are all vulnerable to violence and abuses

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Children must always be seen as part of their sectors or class which they belong. The peasants, workers and urban poor communities comprise

majority of the Filipino society. As their sectors suffer, so do children.

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60 percent of the working

children who are aged 5 to

17 years old work in farms

in the country. Children of workers and urban poor become child laborers or street children

due to extreme poverty and

hunger. At the end of the last quarter of 2010, there are

4.1 million hungry Filipino

families Almost half of the population or 46 million Filipinos are malnourished.

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One to two children experience violence every

hour

Every day, six to seven children are battered Every day, nine are being

raped. Under the first six months of

the Aquino administration,

CRC has already recorded

953 violations which are counterinsurgency-related

due to the Oplan Bayanihan.

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CHILD’S RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

ARROYO ADMINISTRATION(January 21, 2001 to June 30, 2010)

AQUINO ADMINISTRATION(July 1, 2010 to

present)Massacre 41  

Summary Execution 27  Death due to

indiscriminate firing/bombing

6  

Assassination 1  *Unknown cause *2  TOTAL KILLINGS 77  

Frustrated Killings 59 4Illegal Arrest and

Detention73 4

Torture 56 4Abduction 10 1Enforced

Disappearances3 1

Rape and Sexual Assault/Sexual

Harassment

4  

Displacement/Forcible Evacuation

250, 356 740

Use of Minors as Guards or Shields in Military or

Police Operations

22 1

Harassment/Intimidation/Threat

181 29

Use of Public Places for Military Purposes and

Endangerment of Civilians

  766

Physical Assault 45  Branded as Child Soldier

(partial count)41 2

Orphaned 87 (January-September 2009)

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recruitment of minors to Civilian Armed Force and Geographical Unit (CAFGU)

in San Juan, Batangas Harassment of one family

in Calinog, Iloilo resulting to the psychological instability of a young girl

Torture of a teenage boy in

Marihatag, Surigao del Sur

Attack on the B’laan Literacy and Learning Center in Malapatan, Sarangani

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VIOLATIONS NO. OF VICTIMSExtrajudicial Killing 48Enforced Disappearance 5Torture 29Frustrated Extrajudicial Killing

13

Illegal Arrest without Detention

95

Illegal Arrest and Detention

56

Illegal Search and Seizure

78

Physical Assault and Injury

32

Demolition 5, 722Violation of Domicile 87Destruction of Properties 5, 006Divestment of Property 52Forced Evacuation 3, 010Threat/Harassment/Intimidation

9, 589

Indiscriminate Firing 5, 047Forced/Fake Surrender 32Forced Labor/Involuntary Servitude

33

Use of Police and/or Military Operations as Guides and/or Shield

15

Use of Schools, Medical, Religious and Other Public Places for Military Purpose

5, 245Source: Karapatan

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Cloaked as a low intensity

approach to “win the hearts and minds” of the people, the counter-insurgency program Oplan

Bayanihan is as fierce as the previous programs under the Arroyo administration that led to

the death of more than 1,

000 peasants, workers, youths, women, children, priests, journalists, indigenous people and civilians

OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION

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Women exploited are never different from the exploited and abused children. Like children, women should be seen as women from a definite class or sector of the society or they are also abused by their class.

OBJE

CT O

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There were 9, 797 reported cases of violence against women as of 20098 cases of gang rape

were reported to Gabriela from January to September 2010.

OBJE

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WOMEN SITUATION

NUMBER

Unemployed 1.05 million

Non-paid workers 1.8 million

Average wage of an unskilled

worker

PhP 129.89

Unskilled workers 36 percent are women

Underemployed who worked

irregularly and for less than eight

hours a day

6.7 million

Number of women who die every day

due to complications

during childbirth

11

Source: Gabriela

OBJE

CT O

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AN

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PLOI

TATI

ON

Of the 11 women who die due to childbirth complications, 60 percent delivered in their homes

2/3 of which are assisted by unskilled attendants.

OBJE

CT O

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AN

D EX

PLOI

TATI

ON

The Philippines has the highest mortality rate in Asia. For every 100, 000 women

giving childbirth, 230 die. A higher number compared

to the 110 in Thailand, 62 in

Malaysia and 14 in Singapore. 75 percent of pregnant

women come from the poorest section of the society have no access to

skilled attendants compared

to the 20 percent pregnant

women from rich families.

OBJE

CT O

F DE

SIRE

AN

D EX

PLOI

TATI

ON

Due to the very low information dissemination on

sex, sexual activities of youths aged 15-19 elevated

from 1994 to 2002 which results to the pregnancy of

10 percent of women who

are mostly poor. Also, lack of education on

violence against women, almost 25 percent of women

aged 15-19 experience physical or sexual harassment.

OBJE

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TATI

ON

As men step out of the houses to work, women are left behind to take care of the children, do household chores and look over their houses.

DEMOLITION JOB

DEMO

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N JO

B

In the face of PPP, urban poor communities are being wiped off the Philippine map to pave way for infrastructure projects meant for the “development” of the country. In return, hundreds of thousands of families will be displaced and relocated to remote areas without basic needs and opportunities.

DEMO

LITIO

N JO

B

PLACES WITH DEMOLITION

PROJECT

North Triangle, Brgy. San Roque,

Quezon City

Quezon City Central Business DistrictMedical Tourism

Kadiwa, Brgy. San Roque , Navotas

City

North Bay Boulevard Business Project

Brgy. Corazon de Jesus,

Pinaglabanan, San Juan City

City Hall

Laperal Compound, Makati City

Shipyard/Port Modernization

Macapagal Tenement, Tondo,

Manila

Manila North Harbor

Dypac Compound, Tondo, Manila

Mall

Gitagum, Misamis Oriental

Resorts

Welfareville, Mandaluyong

Mall

Brgy. Pangarap, Caloocan

 

DEMO

LITIO

N JO

B

Department of Interior and

Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo said that one out of four families or 556, 526 families in NCR are informal

settlers. Of the 18 relocation sites of

the National Housing Authority (NHA), only 32, 762 units are left which leaves more than half a million families without proper houses.

DEMO

LITIO

N JO

B

Robredo affirms the dire situation of Filipinos when

relocated but still opt to return

to their previous communities

due to lack of proper electricity

and water supply, job opportunity, accessibility to

primary services such as schools, hospitals and markets.

Living conditions in relocation

areas are far from the realizable state of living since

most of the areas are desert-

like, prone to earthquakes,

landslides, floods and the like.

DEMO

LITIO

N JO

B

Aquino signed a covenant

with the urban poor last March 2010 where he agreed that no demolition

will take place if there are

no decent relocations, in-city relocation, basic services and jobs. As he assumed office, he backed

down with the points of agreement

The average government spending per day on every

Filipino is PhP 0.16

DEMO

LITIO

N JO

B

First EJK in NCR under Aquino, Antonio “Ka Nono” Homo Jr.Brgy. Corazon de Jesus

in San Juan may be a small community but their defiant stance against the Ejercito-Estrada country, the same with Brgy. San Roque, North Triangle, Quezon City.

DEMO

LITIO

N JO

B

Even the hype on the punching incident against a

sheriff by Mayor Inday Sarah

Duterte of Davao left a mark

on the recent spate of demolitions in the country. Yet what society missed there

is the rarity of such act from a

politician who had the audacity to stand up for the

welfare of the people, one

thing Aquino doesn’t have.

DEMO

LITIO

N JO

B

As the metro is plagued with demolitions left and right, the people answered back with barricades and remained in their

houses solely because of their determined stand to rise up and defend what is due to them – decent houses and not PPP.

MALNOURISHED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

MALN

OURI

SHED

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ALTH

CARE

SYS

TEM

Women’s healthcare could only be achieved if the whole healthcare system is addressed well. Failure to do so will lead to failure in every specified healthcare department.

The government allotted only PhP 38.6 billion from

Php 40 billion in 2010, a 3.5

percent slash. Aquino slashed PhP 318 million from the budget of

12 major public hospitals in

the country, including Jose

Fabella Memorial Hospital,

the sole maternity hospital

in the country. The average government spending per day per head

is pegged at PhP 1.10 on health.

MALN

OURI

SHED

HE

ALTH

CARE

SYS

TEM

More than half of the Philippine population do not

have health insurance while

a quarter do not see a doctor

when sick Nine out of 10 Filipinos

expect the government to

provide healthcare for all 32 out of 1, 000 live births

die before they reach the

age of five due to diseases

which are treatable and preventable in nature

MALN

OURI

SHED

HE

ALTH

CARE

SYS

TEM

PPP = Medical Tourism The Quezon City Central

Business District also aims to privatize the hospitals with specialization in the North

Triangle Philippine Heart Center Lung Center of the

Philippines National Kidney Institute Philippine Children’s Medical

Center to pave way for a first-class hospital like The

Medical City and St. Luke’s

Medical Center.

MALN

OURI

SHED

HE

ALTH

CARE

SYS

TEM

MALN

OURI

SHED

HE

ALTH

CARE

SYS

TEM

Philippine hospitals are flooded everyday with patients but lacks facilities, doctors, nurses, buildings and medicine. Just like in schools.

EDUCATION NOW FOR SALE

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE The state of Philippine

education is in its most drastic point.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

Education budget went on a downtrend from 17.4 percent in 2001 to 11.35 percent in 2011Aquino spent only

11.35 percent of the national budget for education, definitely lower than Arroyo and Estrada administrations with 13

and 18.7 percent respectively.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Commission

on Education for the 21st

century that governments

should allot at least six percent of the gross domestic product of the country for education.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

COUNTRY GDP ALLOTMENT ON

EDUCATIONPhilippines 2.5 percent to 3

percent

Brunei 9.1 percent

Malaysia 8.1 percent

Thailand 5.2 percent

Source: NUSP

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

Aquino claims that he has

allotted the highest budget for

education yet the statistics on

shortages show that the basic

education is in a constant

crisis. The government spending per

Filipino student per day is at

PhP 5.79. In the National Capital Region (NCR),

The ratio of students per classroom is 85:1

The ratio of the textbooks per

student is 3:1 The international standard of

student-classroom ratio is

25:1.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

ITEM DEFICIT

Classrooms 152, 000

Textbooks 95.5 million

Teachers 103, 500

Chairs 13.5 million

Water and Sanitation Facilities

424, 600

Source: Kabataan Party-list

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

The national average tuition rate has gone up to 108.35% since 2001. The average tuition

rate almost doubled to P536.31 for A.Y. 2011-2012. In NCR, the average

tuition rate increased by 145.93%, from P439.59 to P1, 078.60 in 2011.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) approved tuition increases in 340 private colleges and universities across the country, 69 of which are from NCR with an average of seven percent increase.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

Apart from the tuition fee, private schools also rake in profit in the form of miscellaneous fees

which usually comprise PhP 6, 000 to PhP 10, 000 on the total payment

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

In the University of Sto. Tomas, Thomasians are faced with redundant fees

such as the student athletic

and sports fees which is separate from a PhP 1,000

athletic fee. These three fees, an energy

fee (P1500), a physical infrastructure fee (P1500),

and an information and development fee (P1,500),

netted UST PhP 349.8 million in additional income

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

In the Lyceum of the Philippines University, students pay PhP 219 for the cultural fee yet student organizations still pay for their expenses when holding events.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

Some of the other dubious

fees being collected in private schools are energy

fees, development fees, accreditation fees, athletics

fees, internet fees, insurance fees, aircondition

fees, email fees, copier fees, test paper fees, ePurse Load fees, etc. Unlike the tuition,

miscellaneous fee hikes have remained unchecked

for the last few years

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

CHEd said that miscellaneous fees are vital for schools for them to provide better facilities and additional services.

Apparently, of the 1, 831 higher education institutions (HEIs), only 100 or 5.5 percent have “adequate facilities”

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

Private schools have successfully made education as

a highly sellable product. Tobacco tycoon Lucio Tan owns

the University of the East Mall magnate Henry Sy and the

Cojuangcos have stocks in the

Far Eastern University Sy also owns the National

University The Yuchengco Group of Companies own the Mapua

Institute of Technology Manila Bulletin owner and Manila

Hotel chairman Emilio Yap owns

55 percent of the stocks in

Centro Escolar University

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

SCHOOL PROFITS

Far Eastern University

PhP 585 million

University of the East

PhP 300 million

Centro Escolar University

PhP 275 million

Ironically, schools with highest tuition fees are handled by the

church such as UST, De La Salle University, Ateneo de Manila

University, Miriam College, Colegio de San Juan de Letran, San

Sebastian College-Recoletos among others.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

According to UNESCO, due to

the costly price of education,

73 percent of the Filipino youth were forced to drop

out.

7.93 million youths aged 6 to

15 are out of school. The Philippine Institute for

Development Studies (PIDS)

said that for every 100 students who enter Grade

12, only 14 of them will graduate in college.

EDUC

ATIO

N NO

W

FOR

SALE

K+12 Program A program that further conditions youths to accept the labor export policy of the government and be semi-skilled workers after completing the K+12 program

to be readily employed even without a degree and add up to the oppressed migrants with cheap labor.

RESISTING AND EXISTING

RESI

STIN

G AN

D EX

ISTI

NG

Attacks on the democratic rights of

farmers to land, of workers to fitting

jobs and wages, of migrants to jobs

here at home, of children to better

living conditions, of women to equal

rights, of families to decent houses,

of people to quality and affordable

healthcare system, of youths to

education created the condition for

campus journalists to grasp firmly

on their pens to create and write

the history the people need.

Such oppressions on people’s

democratic rights and interest

created the condition for the

campus press to firmly practice

adversarial journalism biased to the

people.

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Unlike the corporate media,

campus journalists demystified

the "journalistic objectivity"

which states that journalists do

not take sides. Unlike the corporate media,

campus journalists defy the

status quo. Unlike the corporate media, the

campus press offers alternatives

to every fundamental predicament, that when rooted,

comes down to the clamor for

genuine land reform and national

industrialization.

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The dismal situation of the

Filipinos makes it all the more

necessary for the campus

press to become one with the

people to challenge the system, to publish written

words that shatter the deafening silence and blinding

analyses of the corporate

media and to mobilize the

masses in a unified struggle to

change the system. This has been the great historical foundation of CEGP

in its 80 years of existence.

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Fitting to be tagged as the mosquito press during the Marcos dictatorship, the Guild has advanced to being dogs that don’t just bark but bites by publishing articles and leading undertakings aimed for national liberation and social emancipation.

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But like their readers, the campus

press is also oppressed by the

system under the new administration. The College Editors Guild of the

Philippines has recorded 327

campus press freedom violations

across the country. Violations include censorship,

meddling of adviser and administration, meddling of funds,

militarization, expulsion, suspension, padlocking among

others which school administrators

justify with the flawed Campus

Journalism Act of 1991.

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As vanguards of the second

great propaganda movement, preceding the

propaganda movement under the Hispanic reign led

by Jose Rizal, Marcelo Del

Pilar and Graciano Lopez Jaena, the campus press holds a pivotal role to further expose and oppose

the tyrannical rule and attack of the inutile and puppet Aquino regime on the democratic rights of the

people.

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The campus press bears the capability to surpass the reach of the mainstream media. To have 750 publications from more than 500 schools in 68 out of 78 cities and provinces nationwide gives a limitless avenue to publish articles that carry

analyses that informs and educates people of the dire situation.

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The gravity of such oppression only proves that the campus press remains true to their commitment to be journalists for the people. When defending campus press freedom, journalists don’t defend their jobs at the fore front; they defend the rights of their readers.

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For years, we have transcended from being typical school papers to being the bastion of true critical thinking. As attacks continue, it is indispensable that we

struggle alongside our readers – the masses.

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JUNK CAMPUS JOURNALISM

ACT OF 1991! PASS THE CAMPUS PRESS

FREEDOM BILL! DOWN WITH ANTI-PEOPLE

POLICIES AND PROGRAMS!

INCREASE STATE SUBSIDIES

ON BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES!

RESIST THE INUTILE AND

PUPPET AQUINO ADMINISTRATION!

STRUGGLE FOR PEOPLE’S

DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND

INTERESTS!

Crises and

SuPRESSion

College Editors Guild of the Philippines-NCR

July 15, 2011 | Philippine Normal University