I HEARD MY ROBOT TALK

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  • 30 Jan
    23:43 pm
    botherjoseph: unibersidadngpilipinas: 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! :)) Uso ba ngayon yung mga sweeping generalizations ng mga estudyanteng feeling mas-Iskolar ng Bayan sila dahil mas mayaman yung mga iba? I understand the frustration about existing class differences, especially in UP, where the socio-economic demographic has shifted drastically. From being predominantly low-income, UP now has over 50% of its incoming students coming from private schools, mostly after the 3-fold tuition fee increase in 2007. I also, and more deeply, understand the frustration that equally deserving students were segregated by they and their families’ financial ability to shoulder the new cost of studying in UP, and that money, not brains, became the biggest decider in who could enter UP. HOWEVER. Singling out a student organization for its publicity and recruitment events is something I don’t understand. Especially when one of their parties, AD HOC, raises up to half a million pesos every single semester to send to educational foundations, something which other more vocal and more activist student organizations and mobilizations has been unable to do. Sarcastically disparaging those perceived to be rich does not make the poor less poor, nor detract from the good that the rich can do. Instead, it makes the sincere intention for positive social change unpalatable to the majority who see the (im)maturity of those whose hearts are right, but whose words aren’t. Anti-Marcos rallies did not define UP then. A single student organization’s recruitment week does not define UP now.  It is unfair to direct that frustration towards other students who have also entered UP by their own intellectual merit. The issue of class is a complex one, but the issue of deserving to study in UP- once you get in- is definitely not. 
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    botherjoseph:

    unibersidadngpilipinas:

    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! :))

    Uso ba ngayon yung mga sweeping generalizations ng mga estudyanteng feeling mas-Iskolar ng Bayan sila dahil mas mayaman yung mga iba?

    I understand the frustration about existing class differences, especially in UP, where the socio-economic demographic has shifted drastically. From being predominantly low-income, UP now has over 50% of its incoming students coming from private schools, mostly after the 3-fold tuition fee increase in 2007.

    I also, and more deeply, understand the frustration that equally deserving students were segregated by they and their families’ financial ability to shoulder the new cost of studying in UP, and that money, not brains, became the biggest decider in who could enter UP.

    HOWEVER. Singling out a student organization for its publicity and recruitment events is something I don’t understand. Especially when one of their parties, AD HOC, raises up to half a million pesos every single semester to send to educational foundations, something which other more vocal and more activist student organizations and mobilizations has been unable to do.

    Sarcastically disparaging those perceived to be rich does not make the poor less poor, nor detract from the good that the rich can do. Instead, it makes the sincere intention for positive social change unpalatable to the majority who see the (im)maturity of those whose hearts are right, but whose words aren’t.

    Anti-Marcos rallies did not define UP then. A single student organization’s recruitment week does not define UP now. 

    It is unfair to direct that frustration towards other students who have also entered UP by their own intellectual merit.

    The issue of class is a complex one, but the issue of deserving to study in UP- once you get in- is definitely not. 

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