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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

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26Aug/080

Why Students Should Not Be Pressured To Join Rallies

A lot of us have experienced the pressure to join rallies and boycott classes, or risk being called “indifferent” and “apathetic.” But such censure is neither fair nor complete if in sticking to one’s studies, by faithfully going to class and attending lectures, by fulfilling the mission given to oneself in the meantime, one always keeps in mind that time spent away from one’s studies is the money of one’s less fortunate countrymen gone to waste.

Showing one’s patriotism isn’t limited to the rallying, the battle cries and the marching on the streets. There is a patriotism of a quieter sort, the patriotism I see in my less fortunate classmates who skip meals just so they can have enough fare money to come to class. There is the patriotism of the athlete from the College of Human Kinetics, who comes to training barefooted, not having enough money to purchase a new pair of shoes, so he can do a good job representing the country in a competition abroad. There is patriotism and courage in hundreds of such UP students who fully appreciate the gift they’ve been given and value their education such that they will not let horrendous traffic, nor floods brought about by typhoons, nor incredible distances, nor any lack of resources to prevent them from coming to school. Such dedication and commitment in the face of adversity cannot be called anything else but “heroic.” This is the heroic patriotism demonstrated by the UP isko in courageously going to school, despite any and all the hardships, garnering excellent marks and graduating at the top of one’s class.

Quoted from: Bb. Gabriela M. Francisco

BM Voice 2008, summa cum laude

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