In defense of our red (tagged) comrades in the ivory tower!
In defense of our red (tagged) comrades in the ivory tower!
Fueled by self-imposed deadline to end communist insurgency, the military dodge these question by harping their standardized narrative: these rebels advocated violence, they killed their fellow Filipinos, and were traitors to the Constitution! It is from these “political misfits” that the military is supposed to save our children. But how many children die daily from poverty, how many commit suicides and suffer mental health deterioration resulting from hopelessness? How many young girls prostitute themselves online and offline just to pursue their education?
By GERARDO LANUZA
Bulatlat.com
It is ironic, but at the same time disheartening, to hear some of my fellow UP alumni, students, and faculty condemning our fellow alumni who chose to take the hard path of revolutionary armed struggle to change our society. They feel uncomfortable, if not, a bit discomfited, if their non-UP friends know there are many alumni who headed to the mountains to wage people’s protracted war. Expectedly, the military are now capitalizing on this list to smear people and vilify faculty who are associated or who openly support these fellow alumni including Ma. Lorena Barros (Magna cum Laude BA Anthropology), Tanya Domingo (Fine Arts), Recca Monte (Engineering), Christine Puche (Journalism), Purificacion Pedro (Social Work), just to name a few. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana even challenged the University of the Philippines to explain why the university produced such “political misfits.”
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