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.
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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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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
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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.
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illers
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).
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illers Under Oplan Bayanihan
45 have been victims of
extrajudicial killings, more
than 50 percent of this are
farmers
UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOY
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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 level
51.1 % 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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D 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 $18 billion at
the end of 2010 according to Bangko
Sentral ng PilipinasBudget cut From PhP 19 billion, the
budget was cut down to
PhP 10.98 billion Assistance to Nationals
fund is PhP 81.9 million
Legal Assistance Fund is
PhP 27.3 million
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Apart from the remittances, maltreatment, neglect
and budget cut, OFWs
are also being milked
dry by the government
before they leave country.
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EXORBITANT FEES
AMOUNT
76 signatures from various documents
PhP 7, 600
Passport (minimum)
PhP 1, 200
POEA Fee (new hire)
PhP 7, 500
OWWA Fee ($ 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
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N 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, 245
Source: 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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YSTEM
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
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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.
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Philippine hospitals are flooded everyday
with patients but lacks
facilities, doctors, nurses, buildings and
medicine. Just like in
schools.
EDUCATION NOW FOR SALE
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ALE The state of Philippine
education is in its most drastic point.
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Education budget went on a downtrend
from 17.4 percent in
2001 to 11.35 percent
in 2011
Aquino 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.
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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.
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COUNTRY GDP ALLOTMENT ON
EDUCATION
Philippines 2.5 percent to 3 percent
Brunei 9.1 percent
Malaysia 8.1 percent
Thailand 5.2 percent
Source: NUSP
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
RESIS
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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