AK « CLEVE.ARGUELLES dotcom

8Jun/1012

Few notes on the UPM Welcome Ceremonies and CAS Orientation

I attended the Welcome Ceremonies for First Year students of UP Manila for the third time. Yung una ay yung first year pa ako. The second time naman, I'm an FBC na. And for this time, FBC again plus ASAP-Katipunan. This year's Welcome Ceremonies is a bit different (the seating arrangement, Chancellor's speech and the program). But the change's for the better naman.

Few notes:

I led the LR of ASAP-Katipunan for this year's Welcome Ceremonies! Thrilling! :D This year's LR focuses on challenging the Aquino administration to jail PGMA and to prioritize the education sector. At syempre, patuloy ang paghamon sa mga Iskolar ng Bayan na tugunan at solusyonan ang problema ng lipunan. It was fun! But more than the experience, naipahatid natin ang paghamon natin sa mga bagong Iskolar ng Bayan. Naging maganda pa ang pagtanggap and they're doing their own research about "TOFI." Good! :) Aabangan ko ang mga freshies na ito sa mga pagkilos! Marami tayong haharapin this year Isko and Iska! :D

I attended this year's College Orientation of CAS this year for the third time rin. Yung ikatlo, bilang isang council member sa CAS Student Council. This year's CO is so different! Bukod sa hindi siya ginawa sa Kolehiyo sa GAB Roofdeck at sa halip ay sa PGH Science Hall, they invited UP ROTC to give a speech/lecture/discussion/seminar. Nakakagulat lang! Napakahaba ng naging pagtatanghal ng UP ROTC. Few notes on this note: Nakakapagtaka lang. Ang daming tuition fee grant at free ang uniforms sa ROTC. Nagagastusan talaga ito ng gobyerno? Military spending versus education spending? Could have been a tuition fee of another freshie student na hirap financially. Could have stopped the increase in tuition fee. Another note. Pansin niyo kung gaano karami ang kailangang palitan na kagamitan sa UP? Bulok ang mga gamit and most of the equipments including the classrooms were old. Pero bakit sa ROTC, kumpleto? Judging from the slideshow of pictures that they've showed, kumpletong-kumpleto at bago ang mga kagamitan. From the different types of guns, tanks and other artillery materials, well-equipped sila. Anong meron sa ROTC? Bakit hindi gawing bago ang mga kagamitan sa UP para mahasa lalo ang mga estudyante? Bakit kailangang pagkagastusan ng masyado ang ROTC? Ang hilig natin sa gyera. Keep this in mind people, education is our key to success. How much is a gun? How much is a tank? How much yung cannon na yun? Sana pang tuition fee na lang.

Can't help but rant. Can't help but tell this truth. Why are we not prioritizing spending on the education sector? And judging from Aquino, nothing will change. This will just be business as usual. Another six years of suffering. Let's do something. Are you one with me?

Popularity: 4% [?]

Tagged as: AK, CAS, Ceremonies, First, Orientation, ROTC, Students, up, Welcome, Year 12 Comments

22Feb/103

CAS Vice Chairperson, CLEVE Arguelles.

Hi. I'm your CAS SC Vice Chairperson, Cleve Arguelles. I'm running under the ASAP-Katipunan party (Alternative Student's Alliance for Progress-Katipunan ng mga Progrerisibong Mag-aaral ng Bayan). Isang pamumunong may paninidigan, tunay, palaban at makabayan. Pamumunong para sa CAS. :D

What is AK?
HERE.

Who's Cleve?
HERE.

What are his plans?
HERE.

Tell me what you think. :)

Choose no one but the best, vote for Cleve Arguelles!

Popularity: 3% [?]

Tagged as: AK, arguelles, ASAP, CAS, chair, chairperson, Katipunan, kevin, Personal, robert, sc, vice 3 Comments

21Feb/1013

ASAP-Katipunan

AK Logo

Ang Tunay, Palaban at Makabayan.

The red, yellow and green in the logo represents the core values of AK. Red for being pro-people, yellow for being pro-student and green for being pro-environment. For its 11 years of existence, this has always been the framework of ASAP-Katipunan.

Alternative Student's Alliance for Progress-Katipunan ng Mga Progresibong Mag-aaral ng Bayan (A-K).

WHY A-K?

Dahil ito ay TUNAY. (Genuine alliance for the Students that genuinely represents their interests)

A-K (the only alliance to) stood against the imposition of TOFI which implemented a 300 percent increase in tuition and other fee. There were mobilizations, protest actions and room-to-room campaigns to mobilize students against this anti-student tuition hike. WE ARE AGAINST TUITION HIKE.
A-K is also (the only alliance that is) standing up against the PAASCU/PACUCUOA accreditation which will probably end up in tuition and other fee increases (historical).
A-K lobbied for the inclusion of pro-student and democratic provisions in the 2008 UP Charter.
A-K (the only alliance that) has been lobbying for a HIGHER state subsidy because we believe that EDUCATION is a RIGHT. It is just logical that the government should provide higher subsidy to allow more deserving students to study in UP.
A-K (the only alliance that) defended our one and only student representation in the Board of Regents by being part of the DEFEND THE OSR ALLIANCE. A-K is the only alliance that campaigned for YES to the CRSRS referendum ensuring that we will have a Student Regent. We fought for our right to be represented in the BOR.
A-K lobbied and joined the mobilization to ensure that the current Student Regent, Charisse Banez, be recognized by the BOR and be seated. WE ARE FOR THE STUDENTS.

Dahil ito ay PALABAN. (Militant struggle for the advancement of student's democratic rights, interests and welfare)

A-K consistently called for the rejection and scrapping of TOFI. Others again use their defeatist logic and asked for the revision of TOFI. A-K lobbied in the BOR meeting for the scrapping of the TOFI via TOFI Policy Review. WE WILL NOT BEND TO ANYONE, ONLY TO THE WELFARE OF THE STUDENTS.
A-K ensured that democratic provisions be included in the UP Charter.
A-K advances the idea that EDUCATION is a RIGHT and not just a PRIVILEGE of the few. We are militantly struggling for this by attending protest actions, mobilizations and organizing walk-outs for higher state subsidy.
A-K continuously opposes all forms of campus repression and commercialization of UP education.
WE WILL COLLECTIVELY ADVANCE OUR RIGHTS.

Dahil ito ay MAKABAYAN. (Service not just to the student, but to the People. The True Iskolars ng Bayan.)

A-K recognizes that the problems of the Iskolars ng Bayan are not different from the problems of the people. WE ARE ONE with the PEOPLE.
A-K stood against PGH budget cut as we believe that is the prime duty of the state to provide free and quality health care services to the poor.
A-K joined the mobilization against UP President Emerlinda Roman's memorandum to unseat the duly-elected new PGH director Dr. Gonzales. It was a success. WE ARE ONE with the UP-PGH Community.
A-K is continuously supporting our peasant brothers and sisters by advocating and lobbying for the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill and by conducting Basic Masses Integration wherein students will be immersed in a community of peasants, workers or indigenous people.
A-K is continuously supporting workers by supporting across the board wage hike, by joining them in their picket lines, creating multi-sectoral alliance, and by lobbying for measures that will help the poor like the scrapping of EVAT and the OIL deregulation law.
A-K is continuously supporting the sector of the women by supporting GABRIELLA with its policies and advocacies.
A-K created a multi-sectoral alliance dubbed as REV-UP Manila that is composed of All UP Workers Union, All UP Academic Employees Union, Health Alliance for Democracy, ASAP-KATIPUNAN, GABRIELA and NNARA-Youth. WE ARE ONE with the Health workers, with the Professors, with the Students, with the Women, with the Peasants, with the Workers---with the FILIPINO PEOPLE.
WE CONDEMN THE ILLEGAL ARREST AND TORTURE of the 43 HEALTH WORKERS. We are one with the various sectors of the society that calls for the immediate release of the health workers. SERVICE to the PEOPLE.

Tayo Isko, Para sa Pagbabago! Tumayo Isko Para sa Pagbabago!

Leadership guided by the three principles of being pro-student, pro-people and pro-environment through collective action, consultation with the students and service to the people. THIS IS ASAP-Katipunan.

Now, you can quit asking me in my Formspring why I'm with AK and not with the other party. Because I chose to be one with the students and one with the people. You can't choose a party based on winnability dahil ang party hindi lang pang eleksyon, it must be active all-year round serving the students and the people.

Dahil ang Pagbabago, Dapat MAKABAYAN! Tumayo ka Isko Para sa Pagbabago!

*adopted from redstudentswill

Popularity: 5% [?]