Baguio youth rocks on education issues 06-04-02

	NORDIS WEEKLY April 2, 2006
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BAGUIO CITY (Mar. 24) — From the streets to Malcolm Square, the Baguio youth organized on Friday night a free concert to resonate songs of protest against budget cut, tuition and miscellaneous fee increases and opposition to the recent Commission on Higher Education Memorandum 14 (Ched memo14) as initiated by the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) Baguio-Benguet chapter. Issues of University of the Philippines’ P16.67 M budget cut, University of Baguio’s 7.5% fees increase, and the fight for higher state subsidy for state colleges and universities were among the issues the participants raised during the concert. Youth organizations Cordillera Peoples Alliance Youth Commission (CPAYC), College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP), PIGSA, Alliance of Concerned Students, Tabak-Baguio, League of Filipino Students (LFS), Anakbayan; students from Baguio’s universities and colleges; and members of UP Baguio Alpha Phi Omega (ÁÖÙ) fraternity and sorority have also conjoined condemning the recent killing of LFS-Bicol regional coordinator and ÁÖÙ grand lord chancellor Cris Hugo from Bicol University. Over 150 people attended the event. “What is our ‘great’ president doing? Only 2.5 million are in school today yet 10 million youths are supposedly enjoying the right to education as vested in our Constitution. Upon Ched memo 14, school administrators are given leeway to continuously increase our fees without proper consultations,” NUSP coordinator John Panem said during the concert. The known local bands Binhi, Walkway, Hinge, and Not for Sale are among who performed. Not for Sale fascinated the people. They are the punks who have incessantly asked for justice for their ‘co-punks’ accused of being New People’s Army members, jailed and tortured by Buguias police. One of their songs cried out, “Revolution, don’t talk about it; be about it,” that made the audience cheer more for them. Lastly, Anakbayan-Metro Baguio chairperson Antoni Karl Riva challenged the crowd with lines from then-famous American progressive rock band Rage Against the Machine, “It (change) has to start somewhere. It has to start somehow. What better place than here. What better time than now.” # Pink-Jean Fangon Melegrito for NORDIS Post your comments, reactions to this article
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	NORDIS WEEKLY April 2, 2006
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Baguio youth rocks on education issues
BAGUIO CITY (Mar. 24) — From the streets to Malcolm Square, the Baguio youth organized on Friday night a free concert to resonate songs of protest against budget cut, tuition and miscellaneous fee increases and opposition to the recent Commission on Higher Education Memorandum 14 (Ched memo14) as initiated by the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) Baguio-Benguet chapter. Issues of University of the Philippines’ P16.67 M budget cut, University of Baguio’s 7.5% fees increase, and the fight for higher state subsidy for state colleges and universities were among the issues the participants raised during the concert. Youth organizations Cordillera Peoples Alliance Youth Commission (CPAYC), College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP), PIGSA, Alliance of Concerned Students, Tabak-Baguio, League of Filipino Students (LFS), Anakbayan; students from Baguio’s universities and colleges; and members of UP Baguio Alpha Phi Omega (ÁÖÙ) fraternity and sorority have also conjoined condemning the recent killing of LFS-Bicol regional coordinator and ÁÖÙ grand lord chancellor Cris Hugo from Bicol University. Over 150 people attended the event. “What is our ‘great’ president doing? Only 2.5 million are in school today yet 10 million youths are supposedly enjoying the right to education as vested in our Constitution. Upon Ched memo 14, school administrators are given leeway to continuously increase our fees without proper consultations,” NUSP coordinator John Panem said during the concert. The known local bands Binhi, Walkway, Hinge, and Not for Sale are among who performed. Not for Sale fascinated the people. They are the punks who have incessantly asked for justice for their ‘co-punks’ accused of being New People’s Army members, jailed and tortured by Buguias police. One of their songs cried out, “Revolution, don’t talk about it; be about it,” that made the audience cheer more for them. Lastly, Anakbayan-Metro Baguio chairperson Antoni Karl Riva challenged the crowd with lines from then-famous American progressive rock band Rage Against the Machine, “It (change) has to start somewhere. It has to start somehow. What better place than here. What better time than now.” # Pink-Jean Fangon Melegrito for NORDIS Post your comments, reactions to this article
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