Pagpasidungog (para kay Ka Bitoy)

Sa kada tion sa imo nga kabuhi
Imo ini nga ginhatag kag ginhalad
Sa masa nga imo ginpalangga.

Sa imo pagbyahe sa malapad nga dalan
Pirmi mo ginasinggitan
Ang kinamatarong sang mga mamumugon
Kag tsuper na adllaw kag gab-i nga nagapasada

Kag yara ikaw naga-organisa
Sa masa nga anakbalhas
Imo sila gina-updan sa pungsudnon nga paghimakas.

“Untat biyahe! Welgang bayan!
Suportahan! Suportahan!
Presyo sang langis, panubuon!
Sweldo sang mamumugon, pataason!”

Ang mga ini ang pirmi mabatian
Sa mainit nga dalan
Nga ginhimo mo nga opisina kag puluy-an
Indi matungkad ang imo pag-alagad
Sa masa nga ginahimuslan
Sa luyag mo nga sila hilwayon
Sa kadena sang kaimulon.

Gani, bisan sa imo pagtaliwan, Ka Bitoy
Ang imo nga singgit kag limog
sang paghimakas magapabilin sa amun
Pirmi namon ini mabatian sa amun tagipusuon
Ang imo ginasinggitan, amun ipadayon!

Sa imo kaisog kag panindugan
Ikaw amun subong ginahanduraw sa imo atubangan
Bitbiton kag pagapadayunon
Ang inaway-banwa nga ginsuguran.

Paalam, Ka Bitoy!
Apang indi ini ang katapusan.
Hasta nga may pagpamigos kag pagpanghimulos sa banwa nga natawhan
Ang paghimakas sang pumuluyo magapadayon
Tubtub nga maagum ang matuod-tuod nga kahilwayan
Kag tubtub nga maagum naton ang kadalag-an!

Ang ini nga binalaybay  ginahalad sang mga pamatan-on sa pagtaliwan ni Ka Bitoy, isa ka dungganon nga lider sang PISTON-KMU-Anakpawis diri sa Panay.

Thank you.

My work in Antique has came to its end. Three days turned two weeks. Haha.

Challenges. Fears. Pressures. Stress. Acquaintances. Friendships. Stories. Integrations. Inspirations.

A part of what we call Life.

 A part of what we call 'struggle'.

Kruhay! Padayon ang paghimakas para sa kaaraydan kag kahilawayan kang pumuluyo!

Serve the people!


(Dinot, Pol, Tito Boy, Tito Nash, Pastor Ric, Tito Horace, Tita Susan, Rheca & Ruth, Cedie, Maam Kathy & Sally of NAMFREL, at sa lahat ng nakasalamuha ko, SALAMAT at SALAMAT. Hanggang sa Muli.)

LFS, KABATAAN SUMMON U.P. ADMIN TO STOP COMMERCIALIZATION OF EDUCATION NOW!

The soul of being a national university of the University of the Philippines, as mandated by Republic Act 9500 also known as the “UP Charter of 2008”, has been part of the surrealism being upheld here in this academic institution as the government continuously fails to perform its responsibility to the citizens in providing sufficient budget allocation for education.

With UP’s implementation of the 300% Tuition and Other Fee Increases (TOFI) last December 2006 and another storm of almost 700% TOFI last year in several undergraduate and graduate programs, the administration again reaffirms commercialization to education through its new proposal to implement increase to different fees on Physical Education courses.

In the proposal disseminated by UP Visayas Chancellor Minda Formacion with an attached copy of the excerpt from the minutes of the 256th meeting of the UP President’s Advisory Council held on November 16, 2009, it states: “The policy of not charging fees [tuition or laboratory] has given a rise to as situation where some constituent universities have had to look for other sources to maintain PE facilities and to purchase PE equipment and supplies [once the athletic fund] runs out]. The cost of maintaining PE Facilities and acquiring or replacing equipment and supplies keep on increasing and has therefore become a funding problem. It has affected the [quality] of teaching given the very limited facilities that are made available to the PE students.”

UP Visayas ‘proposed to charge P250.00 or P100.00 for selected PE courses’ and an increase of 81.82% increase in Athletics Fee, from P55.00/sem to P100/sem according to Memorandum No. 2010-03-23 issued by the Chancellor on March 8, 2010. It also states ‘the collections will be used solely to support the regular PE course offerings and to rehabilitate and maintain PE facilities and equipment and to purchase supplies such as balls and pool chemicals.’

The LEAGUE OF FILIPINO STUDENTS and KABATAAN PARTYLIST strongly oppose this proposal of the administration. There was no ‘due and comprehensive’ consultation with regards to the said proposal, as required by RA 9500 Section 13 (m).

Dr. Joy Lizada, Dean of College of Management in UP Visayas, conducted a ‘consultation’ but maximum student participation was not achieved because it was announced the day before the event, and Chancellor Formacion set the deadline on March 15 for the college to submit the result of the consultation. This shows that the administration is really rushing the implementation of the said proposal even without the participation of the students.

We register our strong opposition to the privatization and commercialization scheme of President Roman so as to generate additional budget for UP, even collaborating with the government in pursuing the commercialization of UP education, rather than assert and pushed for higher budgetary education. The Roman administration has been a staunch defender and implementer of government’s policies on education.

WE HAVE TOO MUCH OF TUITION FEE INCREASES FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS.

We call on all constituents of this institution to forbid these anti-students policies of the university that seek to tolerate government’s negligence in providing basic social services to the people like that of education.

The University of the Philippines is owned by the people to serve and offer quality education to those who are financially unstable. We should not allow any form of commercialization inside this institution. The Constitution stipulates that 'the state shall promote and protect every Filipino's right to education at all levels'. We should remind this government in its forgotten responsibility. We should demand to the government greater investment in education.

OPPOSE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LABORATORY FEES FOR P.E. COURSES!

ROLLBACK TUITION NOW!

STOP COMMERCIALIZATION OF EDUCATION!

UPHOLD THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION!

U.P. FIGHT FOR GREATER STATE SUBSIDY!

LEAGUE OF FILIPINO STUDENTS
KABATAAN PARTYLIST