EDITORIAL
Up the revolution Your Collegian rebels. For defiance is the only way forward in the face of attacks on our rights and liberties, and rebellion is the only recourse when confronted by forces that seek to demolish our shared values of justice and democracy. Crises after all brood over every quarter. The Duterte regime has built its throne upon carnage and misery: the deaths of thousands in a brutal but unsuccessful drug war, the continued abuse of our peasants and workers, the terror of militarization in indigenous communities, the poverty of millions of Filipino families. From renewed tyranny to widening inequalities, this government is bent on wrecking the economy, dismantling democracy, revising our history into a perverse parody, and selling the country’s future to global capital. The same climate of aggression pervades the national university, whose administration has now betrayed itself as an enemy of student welfare, through repressive and interventionist measures that imperil not only our democratic rights but the independence and integrity of our institutions. The Collegian itself has not been spared from these assaults. Acting in excess of jurisdiction, the Board of Judges (BOJ) barred two Collegian writers from taking the editorial examination based on a discriminatory interpretation of the rules. UP Diliman Chancellor
Michael Tan upheld the ruling and installed a new editor-in-chief amid protests against the aberrant and undemocratic selection process. The Collegian’s free and critical voice has since been held hostage. Indeed, within and outside the university, the pieces are in place for abuse of power. It is in this juncture that it becomes imperative to break with administrative officiations and wage defiance. Here, into this most radical space, ventures Rebel Kulê. Yet, this paper will not be alone. Defying even campus partisan norms, student councils, organizations, and local college publications have united to defend the institution’s autonomy and integrity. Rebel Kulê is the embodiment of this resistance, of the students’ refusal to allow the administration to govern their own affairs, of their collective resolve to clamor against the suppression of critical media. As the rightful publishers of Rebel Kulê, the students should expect this publication to struggle with them against a host of antistudent policies. The collection of redundant miscellaneous and exorbitant rental fees continues despite the free tuition policy. The
draconian Code of Student Conduct, the freshmen recruitment ban, and stringent org recognition processes remain in place. Budget cuts still loom, and income-generating projects keep on compromising the university’s public character. This paper also vows to seek the margins of disquiet beyond the walls of the academe. Where workers brave pistols and truncheons in the filthiest and harshest factories, we shall be on their picket lines. Where farmers and national minorities face down bullets to stand their ground, we shall wield our pen and amplify their voices. Where lives are laid waste in the fringes, we shall reveal in images the savagery and untenability of the war the state wages against its own people. For Rebel Kulê is biased for the dispossessed, the vulnerable, the sectors so scorned and sidelined in the mainstream. We dispel any pretense to balance in our reportage. False equivalences after all empower only the
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False equivalences after all empower only oppressor. To give equal weight to the oppressor. “all sides” of the issue is to mire the oppressed further into minority To give equal and subjugation. This allegiance to the oppressed and the students weight to “all fuels Rebel Kulê’s aspiration to carry on its brand of fearless and sides” of the critical journalism. Now, more than ever, is the issue is to mire time to rally behind truth, to resist the slightest trespass against the oppressed democracy, fairness, and equality. Only when we cease to think of further into injustices as business as usual can we begin to forge a more united minority and front and to channel diffuse displays of discontent into stronger defiance. subjugation. This will be possible if we confront those that threaten our right to be free and militant, to speak out, to act and fight for what we believe is right and just. This will be possible only if we rebel.
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OPISYAL NA PAHAYAGAN NG MGA MAG-AARAL NG UNIBERSIDAD NG PILIPINAS DILIMAN