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Press Release:
June 19, 2011
Reference Person: Nestor Villanueva 0916 342
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PRESS RELEASE - JUNE 19, 2011
Reference Person: Nestor Villanueva 0916 342 3863
Farmers admire youths calling for land reform
Calamba City – The militant peasant movement in Southern Tagalog expressed
their admiration on the five young militant activists who shouted “tunay
na reporma sa lupa, ipaglaban!” (struggle for genuine agrarian reform)
during the unveiling of Rizal Park in this city.
President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III attended and delivered a
speech on the 150th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal, and was surprised
when a group of young activist staged a lightning rally that displayed
disgust on the government’s policies.
The protesters were nabbed by the Presidential Security Guards and were
detained at the Calamba Police Station.
“These youth activists are the real hope of the nation,” Nestor
Villanueva, spokesperson of Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magbubukid sa Timog
Katagalugan (Kasama-TK) said in a statement.
“They were able to grasp the real issue of the country – landlessness –
the same problem of the Filipinos that Rizal is trying to expose during
the Spanish colonization,” the peasant leader added.
Villanueva is a farmworker from Hacienda Yulo in Calamba City who has been
fighting against the conversion of the 7,100 hectare Yulo Estate.
His group is calling for the confiscation and free distribution of
farmlands owned by big landlords to landless farmers.
Kasama-TK tagged Aquino’s administration as a Haciendero Republic and
consistently assailed the president for his inaction on the distribution
of Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac.
“How can we lose hope in our struggle for land when the youth is committed
to link-arms with our rank? The Haciendero Republic will fail and we shall
win,” the group said and calls for more protest action among the youth and
enjoins the young people to go to the countryside and unite with the rural
poor in exposing “Aquino’s anti-farmer policies.”
As of 3:00PM today, the 8 individuals remain detained and are filed with
charges of alarm and grave scandal case and are requiring each a P6000
bail. #
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MAHIYA NAMAN KAY RIZAL
-Stum Casia
Sa isandaang kabataan-pag-asa-ng-bayan na mag-eenroll ng grade 1,
66 lang ang aabot ng grade 6.
Ang makakatuntong ng 1st year high school ay 58.
43 ang makaka-graduate.
33 ang magkokolehiyo.
21 ang makakatapos, wag nang itanong
kung makakahanap agad ng trabaho.
At sa ika-150 kaarawan ni Jose Rizal,
bayaning tumaya sa kabataan-
ipaalala sa Malakanyang
na wag subukang gawin tema at slogan.
Mahiya naman
kay Rizal
at sa batang excited sa unang araw ng pasukan
na pauupuin sa sahig
sa classroom na siksikan.
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Ang mga numero ay mula sa privilege speech ni Kabataan Partylist Rep.
Raymond Palatino noong ika-30 ng Mayo 2011
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Palayain ang Calamba 7!---GABRIELA-ST
by Gabriela Southern Tagalog on Monday, June
20, 2011 at 9:17am
Mariing kinukundena ng GABRIELA-Southern Tagalog ang naganap na
panghaharas at panghuhuli kahapon sa 8 kabataan matapos magsagawa ng isang
kilos protesta kasabay ng pananalita ni Noynoy Aquino.
Kaugnay ito ng pagdiriwang ng ika-150 kaarawan ni Jose Rizal.
"Hindi natin mapapag-iba na ang ginawa kay Rizal na panghaharas ng mga
Espanyol sa ginawa ng mga security group ni Noynoy Aquino. Kailan ba
naging masama na iparinig sa presidente ng Pilipinas ang mga lehitimong
panawagan ng mamamayan ng Timog Katagalugan?" Ito ang pamanghamong
pagkundena ni Rona Jane B. Manalo ang Pangkalahatang Kalihim ng
GABRIELA-Southern Tagalog.
Habang nagsasalita si Noynoy Aquino, 7 kabataan ang buong tapang na
nagladlad ng kanilang mga panawagan, hindi lamang sa usapin ng edukasyon
ngunit gayon na rin sa kalagayan ng Timog Katagalugan.
Nadamay pa sa nadampot ang isang kabataan na nakikiusyoso lamang sa
pangyayari.
Isa sa mga nahuli at hanggang ngayon ay nakadetine sa Calamba Police
Station ay si Catherine Gigantone, miyembro ng GABRIELA-Youth UPLB.
"Sila ang mga sinasabi ni Rizal na mga tunay na pag-asa ng bayan, kaya
hindi dapat sila tratuhin ng marahas, gaya ng ginawa sa kanila. Hindi
matutuwa si Rizal sa ginawang pambubusabos na ito sa mga sinabi niyang
pag-asa ng bayan," pagbibigay diin pa ni Manalo.
Hanggang sa kasalukuyan ay nakadetine pa rin ang 7 kabataan sa Calamba
Police Station. Sinampahan sila ng kasong Alarm and Public Disturbance,
kahit sa batas naman ay legal ang kanilang ginawa.
Naninindigan ang Gabriela-Southern Tagalog na kahit minsan ay hindi
kasalanan ang magpahayag ng sarili, lalo na kung ito ay isyu ng mamamayan.
"Sila ay mabuting halimbawa sa mga kabataan, wag makuntento sa
kasalukuyang bulok na kalagayan. Kumilos at labanan ito, gaya ng ginawa ni
Rizal," panghuling pahayag ni Manalo.
Nanawagan ang GABRIELA-Southern Tagalog ng kagyat na pagpapalaya sa 7
kabataan. Ganito rin ang ginwa ni Gloria Arroyo ng may 5 mamamayan ng
Calamba ang nagpahayag ng pagpapatalsik kay Arroyo noong 2008.
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8 activists arrested for protesting during
PNoy's speech
19-Jun-11, 5:37 PM | InterAksyon.com
MANILA, Philippines – Eight activists, including five members of the
Kabataan party-list, were arrested and detained for staging a protest as
President Benigno Aquino III delivered a speech at ceremonies to mark the
150th birth anniversary of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal in Calamba, Laguna
on Sunday.
The activists were apprehended by members of the Presidential Security
Group and Calamba police when they chanted slogans, including “Walang
pagbabago sa ilalim ni Aquino (No reforms under Aquino)!”
The youth party-list also celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sunday.
The Kabataan party-list identified its detained members as Mikel Mozo,
Ynik Ante, Ruffa Solano, Bhen Aguihon and Cathy Gigantone, all from the
University of the Philippines – Los Banos.
The other detained activists were Joefrey Barreto and Rodel Badayos of the
Anakpawis party-list John Louie Matira, a resident of Cabuyao, Laguna.
The youth party-list, in a statement, said activists are staging a picket
in front of the Calamba jail to demand the release of the eight, who have
been charged with alarm and grave scandal and required to post bail of
P6,000 each.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/6157/8-activists-arrested-for-protesting-during-pnoys-speech
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COLLEGE EDITORS GUILD OF THE PHILIPPINES
SOUTHERN TAGALOG CHAPTER
June 20, 2011
Press Statement
Reference Person:
Rogene Gonzales, Chairperson CEGP-ST
(09174538127/ 09213068744)
Illegal detention of Calamba-7: Insult to Rizal’s life and death!
Members of the campus press in Southern Tagalog expressed their dismay on
the continued illegal detention of 7 individuals collectively known as the
“Calamba-7” saying this act by the state is but a “direct insult to the
life and death of our national hero, Jose Rizal.”
“It is ironic that 150 years after the birth of Rizal and in his very own
hometown of Calamba, the youth and people experience the same political
persecution that the Spanish colonial rulers imposed upon the Filipino
people hundreds of years ago,” College Editors Guild of the Philippines –
Southern Tagalog (CEGP-ST) Chairperson Rogene Gonzales said.
‘Freedom of expression’
Yesterday, during the commemoration of the 150th Birth Anniversary of
Rizal in Calamba, Laguna, protesters registered their dissent to Noynoy
Aquino who was present in the ceremony. The militants scored Aquino for
his anti-people policies on education and land reform that continues to
haunt the Southern Tagalog region. 8 protesters were nabbed by police
forces.
Until now, the 7 individuals including 5 youth, who are members of
Kabataan Partylist and students of U.P. Los Baños, remain detained at the
Calamba Police Station despite petition for recognizance filed yesterday
to grant their release. The other 2 detained are members of Anakpawis
Partylist.
“We urge the local government of Calamba to drop the trumped-up charges of
the Calamba 7 since they have only practiced their freedom of expression
which is a vital cornerstone to a democratic society,” Gonzales stressed.
Last academic year, CEGP-ST recorded around 170 cases of campus press
freedom violations (CPFVs) from 40 publications throughout the region
while the CEGP National Office has recorded 187 CPFVs during the recent
national convention. 22 publications registered they have experienced
censorship from their advisers or school administrators.
“If inside their schools, students are already repressed for speaking and
standing up for their rights and welfare, what more outside the academic
realm?” he asked.
‘Inheritors of our country’s future’
Meanwhile, CEGP-Cavite Chairperson Rose Sugar Velarde stressed that it is
not through the construction of a huge monument that we truly commemorate
Rizal’s teachings, but through respecting the rights of the youth and
people - whom Rizal sacrificed his life for.
“The youth are the inheritors of our country’s future. But do we still
need to be exiled and jailed to Dapitan just like Rizal before the
government realizes that it is not living-up for the people’s interests?”
Velarde said.
She added that if Aquino only gave in to the calls of the people such as
higher state subsidy for education, genuine land reform and just wages,
then the people would not have anything to protest about in the first
place.
In Cavite, for example, farmers have no choice but to evacuate their lands
because of the landowners’ rampant land-use conversion of agricultural
lands to subdivisions granted upon by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program with Extension and Reforms (CARPER).
“What the 7 has shouted in front of Aquino are legitimate calls of the
people. But does the Aquino administration even listens to us – whom he
claims as his boss?” she stressed.
‘Rise in human rights violations’
Yesterday, student journalists in Palawan joined multi-sectoral groups in
the province in showing their disgust to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The DOJ ruled on the case of slain journalist Dr. Gerardo ‘Gerry’ Ortega
absolving former Palawan governor Joel T. Reyes and five more accused
personalities from their crimes.
“We understand that the state has always retorted to nothing else but
political persecution to its critics. On June 30, Aquino will mark one
year in office, and now we see a rapid rise in the number of human rights
violations in the country,” according to Allan Jay Javier, chairperson of
CEGP-Palawan and editor-in-chief of The Pioneer of Palawan State
University.
Javier stressed that the Calamba-7 is not an isolated case of state
violence, but roots from the systematic abuse of power from the government
no different from what former president-now-congresswoman Gloria Arroyo
did when she was in office.
In less than a year of Aquino’s presidency, human rights group Karapatan-Southern
Tagalog accounted 11 cases of extrajudicial killings in the region. In
addition, the number of political prisoners continued to rise to 54. Last
May 18, trumped-up charges of “murder and frustrated murder” were re-filed
in San Pablo City, Laguna for 72 leader activists of Southern Tagalog.
‘Release the Calamba-7 now!’
Different groups stormed in front of the Calamba City Hall starting 2pm
today, setting-up a protest camp to call for the immediate release of the
detained. The protesters vowed not to leave until the 7 individuals are
released and all charges have been dropped.
“We call on the youth and the people, most especially campus journalists,
to show their support in calling for the freedom of the Calamba-7.
Sama-sama nating ipanawagan ang pagpapalaya sa mga tunay na pag-asa ng
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FREE THE CALAMBA 7!
CONGRESS OF TEACHERS/EDUCATORS FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY
CONTEND-UP
June 21, 2011
Question: “Where are the youth who will consecrate their budding years,
their idealism and enthusiasm to the welfare of the country? Where are the
youth who will generously pour out their blood to wash away so much shame,
so much crime, so much abomination?”
–Jose Rizal
Answer: They are in jail!
More than a century after Rizal expressed his concern over “so much shame,
so much crime and so much abomination” that plagued Philippine society
during his time, Rizal’s words strike us today as being extremely
immediate.
It is revolting to witness the U.S.- Aquino regime’s fascist attacks on
our activist youth. Mikel Mozo, Ynik Ante, Ruffa Solano, Bhen Aguihon and
Cathy Gigantone are members of Kabataan Partyist-UP Los Baños chapter
together with two other members of Anakpawis Partylist Los Baños were
nabbed by the Presidential Security Guards and the Calamba police and
brought to prison. As President Aquino delivered his speech for the 150th
birth anniversary of our national hero, Jose Rizal, the young activists
braved repressive threats by demanding what every Filipino wants for
her/his country: “Edukasyon karapatan ng mamamayan!” and “Tunay na reporma
sa lupa, ipaglaban!” (Education is a right of the people! Struggle for
genuine agarian reform!).
That these rights are denied our citizens long after our so-called
independence from our Spanish and American colonizers is an indictment of
the system of governance and democracy in the country. The demonstrators
also chanted “Walang pagbabago sa ilalim ni Aquino!”(No change under
Aquino!) They are not alone in observing and lamenting the truth about
this imperialist U.S.-sponsored regime.
To this day, the families of massacred farmers of Hacienda Luisita—owned
by the president’s family-- have not seen justice coming to their weary
and precarious lives. Extrajudicial killings of activist leaders,
especially from the peasant sector continue. Trump up charges against
activist have dragged them into prison and are in effect criminalized for
their political beliefs. Violent demolitions continue to threaten and even
take away the lives of poor Filipinos.
Filipino workers live through suicide wages while profits are continuously
extracted from their labors. This government continues to export warm
bodies abroad, turning citizens into milking cows in order to cover for
its rejection of a sufficient industrialization plan. President Noynoy
Aquino has made the Filipino youth suffer by imposing a P 1.39 billion
slash to the education budget of 2011. All these and more in the name of
Structural Adjustment, an imperialist scheme forced into our throats by
U.S.-led International Monetary Fund-World Bank (IMF-WB) in cahoots with
the Aquino-led ruling elite.
It has nearly been a year since President Aquino started to run the
nation. Yet his promise of change has morphed into an incomparable act of
downsizing our hopes for the future as though it is his sworn duty to a
redundant past. The youth who offer their budding years, their idealism
and enthusiasm to the welfare of the country, are violated, stripped of
their freedoms and put behind bars in the name of an outmoded and
oppressive system that President Noynoy Aquino seeks to preserve, at all
costs.
Free the Calamba 7!
Jail the plunderers not the activists!
Free all political prisoners!
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Media Release:
KSUP Memo No. 004-2011
PETSA: 19 Hulyo 2011
PARA: Sa Lahat
HINGGIL: PALAYAIN ANG CALAMBA 7!
IPAGLABAN ANG KARAPATAN SA EDUKASYON AT KABUHAYAN!
Kundenahin ang Represyon ng Estado sa mga Iskolar ng
Bayan sa UPLB sa Araw ng Kapanganakan ni Jose Rizal!
Maigting na kinukundena ng Katipunan ng mga Sangguniang Mag-aaral sa UP (KASAMA
sa UP) ang pasismong ipinakita ng Rehimeng US-Aquino sa mga estudyante at
kabataan sa UP Los Baños kahapon ng umaga, 19 Hunyo 2011.
Limang estudyante ng UP Los Baños ang iligal na dinakip ng mga pulis at
Presidential Security Group (PSG) habang nagsasagawa ng demontrasyon sa
pagpasinaya ni Pangulong Benigno Cojuangco-Aquino sa 22-pulgadang estatwa
ni Jose Rizal bilang pagdiriwang sa ika-150 taong kaarawan ng Pambansang
Bayani sa Calamba Plaza, Calamba, Laguna.
Iligal na dinakip ng mga elemento ng pulisya at Presidential Security
Group (PSG) sina Ynik Ante (UPLB USC Councilor), Bhen Aguihon (LFS-UPLB),
Cathy Gigagonte (GABRIELA-UPLB), Ruffa Solano (NUSP-UPLB), Mikel Mozo (ANAKBAYAN-UPLB)
at dalawa pang iba mula sa ANAKPAWIS Partylist-UPLB habang nagsasagawa ng
mapayapang demonstrasyon at nanawagan sa pangulo ng mas malaking badyet
kasabay ng panawagang bigyan nito ng mas malaking pagpapahalaga ang sektor
ng edukasyon lalo na ang mga State Colleges and Universities (SCUs).
Ipinanawagan din ng mga nabanggit pati ang karapatan ng mga mamamayan sa
kabuhayan.
Nakababahala na nakararanas ang mga kabataan ng ganitong karahasan habang
nananawagan lamang para sa karapatan sa edukasyon sa mismong araw ng
kapangakan ng ating Pambansang Bayani na nagbigay ng malaking tiwala sa
mga kabataan at nagsabing tayo ang pagasa ng bayan. Isa itong kataksilan
sa kabayanihan ni Rizal!
Araw dapat ito ng paggunita sa kapanganakan ng isang dakilang bayaning
hindi natakot na manindigan para sa mga karapatan ng mga kabataan at
mamamayan, tumuligsa sa pamamagitan ng kaniyang mga sulatin ng katiwalian
sa gobyerno at simbahan, pinakita ang katotohanan ng pagsasamantala at
pang-aabuso ng mga Espanyol, mga lokal na alipores at taong simbahan at
pumukaw sa damdaming makabayan ng sambayanang Pilipino laban sa kaapihan
ng mga dayuhang Espanyol.
Ang dinanas ng mga Kabataan sa Calamba ay tulad din ng mga karanasan ni
Jose Rizal at iba pang makabayang kabataan sa kamay ng mga nasa
kapangyarihan habang pinapanawagan lamang na payagang makapag-aral ang mga
indio. Patunay din ito na wala pa ring tunay na demokrasya sa bansa
partikular na ang malayang pagpapahayag ng mga saloobin at mapayapang
paglaban sa mga kabulukan ng kasalukuyang sistema. Nakakalungkot na
hanggang ngayon, ilang daang taon matapos patayin si Jose Rizal at makamit
natin ang "demokrasya" ay pareho pa rin ang mga panawagan at ipinaglalaban
ng mga kabataan. Masasabing pagtalikod ito ng kasalukuyang rehimen sa
ating mga kabataan at kalapastanganan sa kabayanihan nina Rizal at iba
pang mga kabataang nagbuwis ng kanilang buhay para sa kalayaan at tunay na
demokrasya.
Mariing kundenahin ang represyon sa hanay ng mga Iskolar ng Bayan at mga
mamamayan!
Palayain ang Calamba 7!
Labanan ang pulitikal na panunupil!
Ipaglaban ang ating karapatan sa edukasyon at kabuhayan!
Ipaglaban ang mas malaking badyet para sa edukayon!
Huwag kalimutan ang mga pinaglaban at pinagbuwisan ng buhay ng mga
kabataan noon man o ngayon.
Kabataan, Pag-asa Tayo ng Bayan, Paglingkuran ang Sambayanan!
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"The
Student Regent of UP calls for the dropping of all charges against the 5
UPLB students arrested on June 19, 2011. Their arrest and continued
detention are undue penalties to people's participation. They have only
sought to expose the sorry state of education, but with their arrest also
exposed the repressive character of this administration. We have asked
assistance of the UP College of Law to facilitate the release and
discharge of the students."
-Krissy Conti,
Student Regent
University of the Philippines System
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BONUS TRACKS
A poem of their
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SA MGA KAIBIGAN:
PROTESTANG TUMBANG-PRESO, BATAS MILITAR,
AT IBA PANG ALAALA NG PAKIKIBAKA
(Para kay Rey, Cora, Aster, Edvil, sa alaala ni
Doc Pablo Botor at sa lahat ng mga kaibigan, "kahapon, ngayon, at bukas.")
- Nonilon V. Queano19 Hunyo 2011
Sa kaibuturan, ang pinaghugutan ng pananalig
Ay diwang sinlinaw ng payapang dagat sa tanghaling tapat
Sa liwanag, nilagom ang mundo,
At pusong tumitibok ng di masukat
Na pagmamahal sa sambayanan
Doon napapanday ang tapat
At pinakamatimyas na pagkakaibigan.
Sa tagal ng panahong tinahak
Sa maraming alaala ng paglaban.
Sa panahon ng tagsibol at pamumulaklak
Ipinunla ang halamanan ng pananalig
Sa dawag ng pamantasang larawan din
Ng malakolonyal at malapyudal na lipunan,
Sumibol at yumabong ang pagkamulat;
Sa pagitan ng pagsusunog-kilay at harana ng eskuwela,
Ang gunita ng unang digma.
Ganoon lagi ang simula
Tila musmos na naglaro ng tumbang preso
O nanungkit ng kamatsile’t aling-aro,
Ang hagod sa demonstrasyon at protesta
Naroong dinadaan ang pagtutol
Sa himig ng “Paruparong Bukid”
“May isang Dekano na lilipad-lipad/Sa tabi ng daan’y papagapagaspas,” ang
isinisigaw
O ang kuwentong “Joel de los Diablos” ng guro
Na inakalang espiyang nagturo
Sa mga guro’t estudyanteng aktibista.
Mga kuwento’t manipestong nalathala sa Umaga,
Sa mga unang panahon ng pagkamulat at paglaban,
Awit-sigaw ang bandilang,
May kasabot pang gitara::
“Burukrata kapitalismo/Ibagsak!
”“Pyudalismo/Ibagsak!”
“Imperyalismo/Ibagsak!”
Hanggang mapanday nang lubos sa hagupit
Ng batas militar sa rehimeng Marcos,
Sa una’y tila lagim na gigimbal
Tulad ng pagsalikop ng lupa at langit
Sa unang panahon ng mga romansa’t panaginip.
May mga nakatakas ngunit marami ang ipiniit,
Ang mga magkakaibiga’y naghiwalay;
At sa hanay nating di tumiklop kailanman,
May napadpad sa malayo sa paghahanap
Sa Tsina at sa Europa,
May nakulong at nagsipaghintay,
May isang Dekanong kasama rin natin
Na patuloy sumuporta hanggang mamaalam,
At may gerilyero’t gerilyerang lumubog
At nakipamuhay sa masa.
At himalang nagsupling pa
Ng panibagong kasama
Ngunit lahat ay lalo pang nagsilago
Tulad ng matatayog na punong
Kay lalabay ba ng sanga,
Nakayungyong sa sambayanang
Hanggang ngayo’y naghahanap ng paglaya.
Dumaan ang mga taon
Ang mga musmos ng protestang tumbang-preso’y
Naroroon at marahil ay tumanda na
Nagkalayo at malaong di nagkita
Subali’t totoo ngang ang pananalig sa paglaya ay halaman
Na likas na tumutubo sa lupa o sa dagat,
Mayroong pagmamahal na dalisay
Sinlinis ng batong kristal
Na di maigugupo ninupaman, kailanman
Nakalutang sa langit o nakakubli sa gubat
Tulad ng pagmamahal sa laya,
Yao’y batas kalikasan.
Totoo na sa tagal ng paghahanap at paglaban
Ang mga nagkalayo’y muli't muling bumabalik,
Gaano man kalayo ng nilipad at narating
Sa dulo ng binubuong pangarap
Nagtatagpo, nagkikita kahit na magdapitahapon
Ang nagsimpan ng pag-ibig
Mga tapat at lantay na kasama,
Magigiting at hindi malimutang kaibigan.
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Nonilon Queano, UP professor in
Comparative English literature, recites
his poem at a gathering of friends on
Rizal's 150th birth anniversary
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