Matinding Tutulan ang Tiraniya ng Pekeng Mayorya sa BOR!
Presidente Roman, tama na ang tiwaling pamamalakad!
Igalang ang tunay na mga demokratikong proseso!
Marso 1, 2010
Makasaysasayan ang pulong ng Board of Regents (BOR) nitong Pebrero 25, 2010. Anu’t anupaman, lumabas ang tunay na kulay ni Presidente Roman at ang kanyang pekeng mayorya sa BOR.
Sa unang pagkakataon, pinatalsik ang isang rehenete, ang Rehente ng mga Mag-aaral, sa teknikal na dahilang nahuli siya sa pag-file ngresidency. Bagamat may nakasalang siyang apila para sa residency sa Administrasyon ng UP Los Banos at bagamat may ebidensyang iniharap na may estudyante ng UPLB na binigyan ng residency nito lang Pebero 16, 2010, ipinatupad pa rin ang desisyon ng BOR noong Enero 29, 2010 na tanggalin siya bilang rehente.
Sa unang pagkakataon sa kasaysayan ng Unibersidad, binawi ang pagtatalaga ng isang opisyal ng Unibersidad. Si Dr. Jose Gonzales, hinirang ng BOR noong Disyembre 18, 2009 bilang direktor ng Philippine General Hospital at nanumpang direktor noong Enero 7, 2010 para sa tatlong-taong termino, ay pinagbotohang tanggalin pagkatapos pumasa ang motion na muling balikan ang naunang botohan sa PGH Director.
Sa unang pagkakakataon, ang tatlong hirang ng Malacanang na myembro ng BOR nananatiling nakakapaghari kahit na paso na ang bisa ng kanilang acting appointments. Bilang acting regents ang itinalagang appointment ni Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sa tatlong Rehente. Si Regent Chua, Regent Gonzales at Regent Sarmiento ay may appointments na mga petsang Enero 1, 2008, Marso 18, 2008 at Setyembre 29, 2008 ayon sa pagkakasunud-sunod.
Batay sa Section 16 at 17 ng Chapter 5, Title I, Book III ng Administrative Code of 1987 (EO 292), may kapangyarihan ang pangulo na magpalabas ng “temporary designation.” Pero hindi dapat lumampas sa isang taon ang temporaryong pagtatalagang ito. (“In no case shall a temporary designation exceed one (1) year.”)
Nananatiling nasa krisis ang Unibersidad sa ilalim ni Presidente Roman at ang kanyang pekeng mayorya sa BOR. May matinding krisis sa demokratikong pamamahala dahil ipinagpipilitan ni Presidente Roman ang kanyang gusto kahit hindi ito matwid. Ninuyurakan ni Presidente Roman ang tradisyon ng demokratikong proseso sa UP, isang layon na itinalaga sa mismong UP Charter na kanyang itinituring na tagumpay ng kanyang administrasyon.
Ang tanging kahihinatnan ng tiwaling pamamalakad ni Presidente Roman ay ang impunity na namamana na rin ng kanyang mga Chancellors. Ang Chancellor sa UP Los Banos Luis Rey Velasco ay trinatrato bilang kampo ng militar ang kampus niya. Kontra-estudyante sa kaliwa’t kanan ng pagkakaso sa mga estudyante, kasama ang pagpigil sa UP Fair doon, walang kinilos para ihinto ang vilification drive laban sa kanyang mga progresibong faculty at mag-aaral, at nagtataguyod sa large class size para sa lahat ng RGEP, foundation at legislated courses ng kampus.
Ibinoto rin ng “mayorya” ng BOR ang muling pagtalaga kay Dr. Gilda Rivero bilang Chancellor ng UP Mindanao sa harap ng malawak na pagtutol ng mga estudyante, kaguruan at istap at nang hindi pa resolbadong paglilinaw sa COA sa mahigit P200,000 na bahagi ng halos P700,000 ginasta ni Dr. Rivero sa kanyang investiture noong 2007 samantalang mga P370,000 lamang ang inaprubahang budget para dito.
Hindi na bago ang pamimili ni Presidente Roman ng opisyal ng unibersidad batay sa ipinakitang loyalty ng mga ito sa kanyang adminsitrasyon. Sa pamimili ng Dekano ng UP Tacloban, pinanigan ni Presidente Roman ang isang nominado na walang doktorado at gumamit pa ng Ph.D. candidate sa kanyang “curriculum vitae” samantalang malinaw na paso na ang kanyang kandidatura bunga ng maximum residency rule.
Noong Sentenaryo ng UP, ang tagline ng administrasyong Roman ay “UP ang galing mo” na siyang dinagdagan ng mga iskolar ng bayan, “UP ang galing mo, ialay sa bayan.” Tunay na nananatiling makabuluhan ang panawagan ito, lalo na kay mismong Presidente Roman at sa natitirang bahagi ng kanyang termino. Bakit niya minamadali ang pagtaguyod ng kanyang mga alyado, pati na ang pagrekomenda sa Malacanang sa kasalukuyang tatlong rehente gayong malapit na matapos ang termino ni Macapagal-Arroyo? Lumilitaw tuloy na mukhang may katotohanan ang kumakalat na balita na may plano pa si Presidente Roman na muling tumakbo bilang presidente ng Unibersidad. Kung totoo ito, ngayon pa lamang mariin namin itong tinututulan.
Ipagtanggol ang ating Student Regent! Igiit ang pag-upo bilang regular na miyembro ng BOR ni Student Regent Charisse Banez!
Tutulan ang pulitikal na represyon sa UP Los Banos.
Labanan ang di-makatarungan at ilegal na pagtalaga ng bagong Direktor ng PGH habang may nakaupong kwalipikadong Direktor na may termino na tatlong taon.
Tutulan ang muling-paghirang kay Dr. Gilda Rivero bilang Tsanselor ng UP Mindanao sa gitna ng malawakang disgusto ng mga guro, kawani at estudyante!
Tutulan ang tiraniya ng pekeng mayorya sa BOR at ng Administrasyong Roman!!
Itaguyod ang tunay na demokratikong pamamahala sa U.P.!
Monday, March 01, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Kondenahin ang Pang-aabuso sa Kapangyarihan ng UP-BOR Sumama sa Kilos Protesta Simula ng Lunes, ika-1 ng Marso 2010, 7:00 n.u.
Ang All UP Workers Union Manila ay mariing kinukundena ang ginawang pagsawalang bisa ng UP Board of Regents (UP-BOR) sa pagkatalaga kay Dr. Jose Gonzales bilang Director ng PGH (January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2012) pagkatapos na madiskwalipika ang Student Regent. Ang ginawang ito ng (UP-BOR) na sinasabi mismo ng University Secretary na kauna-unahan sa kasaysayang nito ay kinukonsidera ng unyon na isang pang-aabuso sa kapangyarihan at pambabastos sa mga demokratikong proseso at kaseguruhan sa trabaho, na ginarantiya ng Konstitusyon ng Pilipinas.
Maaring naniniwala ang huwad na mayoriya ng UP-BOR na dahil sa dagdag na kapangyarihan nito sa ilalim ng bagong UP Charter (RA 9500), kaya sila nag-aastang diyos-diyosan at nagpapatunay lamang sa pagiging lasing nila sa kapangyarihan. Subalit ang anumang poder ay may hangganan sa ilalim ng Konstitusyon at sa batas, at ang anumang pag-aabuso ay walang puwang sa isang institusyong may kultura at naninindigan para sa pang-akademikong kalayaan, pagkakapantay-pantay, demokratikong konsultasyon at pananagutan (academic freedom, collegiality, democratic consultation and accountability).
Ang unyon ay nanawagan sa buong kumunidad ng UP at ng PGH na tayo ay magkaisang kondenahin ang mga ganitong pang-aabuso sa kapangyarihan dahil kung ito ay ating palagpasin, ang ating mga administrador na dapat siyang magpatupad ng mga batas at patakaran para sa kagalingan ng lahat, ay mamimihasa sa kalasingan sa kapangyarihan at sisirain nila ang ating mga pinagpipitaganang kultura at paniniwala sa ating mga institusyon, bilang isang mahusay na pang-akademikong institusyon at nagapamandila ng mahusay na serbisyong panlipunan.
Ang mga pang-aabuso sa poder ng ating mga policy-makers at mga administrador ay magsisilbing anay na sisira mismo sa pundasyon ng ating mga pinakamamahal na institusyon: ang UP at PGH, na magbibigay puwang sa demoralisasyon at pagkawatak-watak sa hanay nating mga ordinaryong mga kawani.
Itaguyod ang de-kalidad at abot-kayang serbisyong pangkalusugan sa mamamayang Pilipino!
Ilantad at labanan ang pang-aabuso sa kapangyarihan ng UP-BOR at ang Roman Administration!
Sumama sa kilos protesta, simula ng Lunes, ika-1 ng Marso 2010, ika 7:00 ng umaga sa PGH Information/Lobby/Flagpole area!
Ika-28 ng Pebrero 2010
Maaring naniniwala ang huwad na mayoriya ng UP-BOR na dahil sa dagdag na kapangyarihan nito sa ilalim ng bagong UP Charter (RA 9500), kaya sila nag-aastang diyos-diyosan at nagpapatunay lamang sa pagiging lasing nila sa kapangyarihan. Subalit ang anumang poder ay may hangganan sa ilalim ng Konstitusyon at sa batas, at ang anumang pag-aabuso ay walang puwang sa isang institusyong may kultura at naninindigan para sa pang-akademikong kalayaan, pagkakapantay-pantay, demokratikong konsultasyon at pananagutan (academic freedom, collegiality, democratic consultation and accountability).
Ang unyon ay nanawagan sa buong kumunidad ng UP at ng PGH na tayo ay magkaisang kondenahin ang mga ganitong pang-aabuso sa kapangyarihan dahil kung ito ay ating palagpasin, ang ating mga administrador na dapat siyang magpatupad ng mga batas at patakaran para sa kagalingan ng lahat, ay mamimihasa sa kalasingan sa kapangyarihan at sisirain nila ang ating mga pinagpipitaganang kultura at paniniwala sa ating mga institusyon, bilang isang mahusay na pang-akademikong institusyon at nagapamandila ng mahusay na serbisyong panlipunan.
Ang mga pang-aabuso sa poder ng ating mga policy-makers at mga administrador ay magsisilbing anay na sisira mismo sa pundasyon ng ating mga pinakamamahal na institusyon: ang UP at PGH, na magbibigay puwang sa demoralisasyon at pagkawatak-watak sa hanay nating mga ordinaryong mga kawani.
Itaguyod ang de-kalidad at abot-kayang serbisyong pangkalusugan sa mamamayang Pilipino!
Ilantad at labanan ang pang-aabuso sa kapangyarihan ng UP-BOR at ang Roman Administration!
Sumama sa kilos protesta, simula ng Lunes, ika-1 ng Marso 2010, ika 7:00 ng umaga sa PGH Information/Lobby/Flagpole area!
Ika-28 ng Pebrero 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
GMA Rule: A Complete Reversal of EDSA
Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD)
Statement on the Commemoration of EDSA People Power I
22 February 2010
Today, as the nation commemorates the historic EDSA People Power I uprising, the continuing illegal detention and torture of 43 health workers by the Philippine military stands as a manifest and complete reversal of everything that EDSA I stood for.
While EDSA I ended the Marcos dictatorship and all its attendant evils, the Arroyo regime has restored much of these. Patronage politics and crony capitalism are stronger than ever, albeit called by other names.
Imeldific dinners and lavish spending abroad hog the headlines, while more than half of the population goes hungry. Institutions and processes of our so-called democracy are undermined for political exigencies.
Over the last nine years, we have witnessed not just the decline of our social landscape but also the growing ascendancy of military rule.
Today, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police continue to disregard the basic tenets of due process and defy even the highest courts of the land. Today, these state security forces remain the top human rights violators in the country.
Today, like the 43 health workers, everyone and anyone can be their victim.
Anyone can be arrested arbitrarily, handcuffed, and blindfolded for almost two days. Anyone can be deprived of sleep, subjected to hours of interrogation, and denied legal counsel. Anyone can be tortured and harassed sexually while under detention.
Anyone, like the 43 health workers, can subjected to the worst forms of abuse and humiliation simply by being accused, through lies and fabricated evidence, as a New People’s Army member.
All of these are with the blessings of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, AFP commander-in-chief and highest-ranking civilian authority. Hers is a rule marked by everything that was abominable with the Marcos dictatorship: unbridled greed and corruption, insatiable lust for power, and utter dependence on the armed strength of state security forces.
Today, it is not enough that Filipinos live “lives of quiet desperation”. Regardless of what we are doing, we live under the naked power of the military, like a sword over our heads.
The continuing detention of the 43 health workers is an irony, if not a tragedy, that highlights the meaninglessness of any commemoration of EDSA People Power I. The innocents who suffer will earmark our government’s backward march to history.
This kind of existence is unacceptable. We demand change. We demand respect for our basic liberties and fundamental rights. We demand an end to martial rule.
Free the 43 health workers now.
For Reference:
Dr. Geneve E. Rivera
Secretary-General, 0920 460 3712
Dr. Gene Alzona Nisperos
Vice-Chair, 0927 483 2325
Dr. Darby S. Santiago
Chair, 0927 473 770
Statement on the Commemoration of EDSA People Power I
22 February 2010
Today, as the nation commemorates the historic EDSA People Power I uprising, the continuing illegal detention and torture of 43 health workers by the Philippine military stands as a manifest and complete reversal of everything that EDSA I stood for.
While EDSA I ended the Marcos dictatorship and all its attendant evils, the Arroyo regime has restored much of these. Patronage politics and crony capitalism are stronger than ever, albeit called by other names.
Imeldific dinners and lavish spending abroad hog the headlines, while more than half of the population goes hungry. Institutions and processes of our so-called democracy are undermined for political exigencies.
Over the last nine years, we have witnessed not just the decline of our social landscape but also the growing ascendancy of military rule.
Today, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police continue to disregard the basic tenets of due process and defy even the highest courts of the land. Today, these state security forces remain the top human rights violators in the country.
Today, like the 43 health workers, everyone and anyone can be their victim.
Anyone can be arrested arbitrarily, handcuffed, and blindfolded for almost two days. Anyone can be deprived of sleep, subjected to hours of interrogation, and denied legal counsel. Anyone can be tortured and harassed sexually while under detention.
Anyone, like the 43 health workers, can subjected to the worst forms of abuse and humiliation simply by being accused, through lies and fabricated evidence, as a New People’s Army member.
All of these are with the blessings of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, AFP commander-in-chief and highest-ranking civilian authority. Hers is a rule marked by everything that was abominable with the Marcos dictatorship: unbridled greed and corruption, insatiable lust for power, and utter dependence on the armed strength of state security forces.
Today, it is not enough that Filipinos live “lives of quiet desperation”. Regardless of what we are doing, we live under the naked power of the military, like a sword over our heads.
The continuing detention of the 43 health workers is an irony, if not a tragedy, that highlights the meaninglessness of any commemoration of EDSA People Power I. The innocents who suffer will earmark our government’s backward march to history.
This kind of existence is unacceptable. We demand change. We demand respect for our basic liberties and fundamental rights. We demand an end to martial rule.
Free the 43 health workers now.
For Reference:
Dr. Geneve E. Rivera
Secretary-General, 0920 460 3712
Dr. Gene Alzona Nisperos
Vice-Chair, 0927 483 2325
Dr. Darby S. Santiago
Chair, 0927 473 770
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Doctor’s Testimony Debunks AFP Claims
Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD)
Media Release
16 February 2010
“I am tired.”
With these words, Dr. Alexis Montes debunked the military’s accusations against the 43 illegally detained health workers and stamped these as malicious falsehoods. Despite breaking down into tears at the end of his otherwise gripping testimony, the 62-year old surgeon detailed every aspect of their arrest and detention, and revealed once and for all the true extent of the human rights violations perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
“We admire Dr. Montes for his steadfastness and integrity amidst the physical and mental difficulties he was subjected to by the AFP,” declared Dr. Geneve E. Rivera, HEAD Secretary-General.
The grey-haired and mild-mannered Dr.Montes spoke yesterday before the Court of Appeals, which was conducting a writ of habeas corpus hearing.
“Immediately after the February 6 mass arrests, Dr. Montes was singled out and tagged by the AFP as the leader of a New People’s Army hit squad formed to eliminate then AFP general, Jovito Palparan,”added Dr. Rivera. “But to date, the AFP has yet to show any iota of proof against the man who, for 20 years, was the National Coordinator for Health Services of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP).”
In contrast, the doctor was able to provide details as to their incarceration without food and bathroom privileges, and how, at one point, he was forced to inhale an aromatic substance that made him dizzy. The military then interrogated him for hours.
Dr. Montes also revealed how even a fiscal from the Department of Justice, a certain Atty. Romeo Sanson, defiled due process when he merely did a “roll call” of the detained health workers during the inquest, did not explain anything to them, and ignored their demands for their own legal counsel.
HEAD warned about the tactics being employed by the AFP as a clear and present danger to the Filipino people.
“It seems to be the institutional character of the AFP to conveniently resurrect the communist bogey every time they are caught flagrantly violating basic human rights.” Said Dr. Rivera, “The military establishment wants us to believe that they can just call anyone NPAs, detain them while fabricating evidences and witnesses, and then file cases against them to justify their actions.”
“The AFP is now acting as the judge, jury, and executioner. Worse, the DOJ is their willing accomplice in this grave injustice!”
“The military and police are acting as though the Philippines is back in the heydays of Martial Law. The Arroyo government, true to form as a Marcos-copycat, is using its counter-insurgency program Oplan Bantay Laya not against the armed rebels but against unarmed civilians,” concluded Dr. Rivera. ####
References:
Dr. Geneve E. Rivera
Secretary-General, 0920 460 3712
Dr. Gene Alzona Nisperos
Vice-Chair, 0927 483 2325
Dr. Darby S. Santiago
Chair, 0927 473 7700
Media Release
16 February 2010
“I am tired.”
With these words, Dr. Alexis Montes debunked the military’s accusations against the 43 illegally detained health workers and stamped these as malicious falsehoods. Despite breaking down into tears at the end of his otherwise gripping testimony, the 62-year old surgeon detailed every aspect of their arrest and detention, and revealed once and for all the true extent of the human rights violations perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
“We admire Dr. Montes for his steadfastness and integrity amidst the physical and mental difficulties he was subjected to by the AFP,” declared Dr. Geneve E. Rivera, HEAD Secretary-General.
The grey-haired and mild-mannered Dr.Montes spoke yesterday before the Court of Appeals, which was conducting a writ of habeas corpus hearing.
“Immediately after the February 6 mass arrests, Dr. Montes was singled out and tagged by the AFP as the leader of a New People’s Army hit squad formed to eliminate then AFP general, Jovito Palparan,”added Dr. Rivera. “But to date, the AFP has yet to show any iota of proof against the man who, for 20 years, was the National Coordinator for Health Services of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP).”
In contrast, the doctor was able to provide details as to their incarceration without food and bathroom privileges, and how, at one point, he was forced to inhale an aromatic substance that made him dizzy. The military then interrogated him for hours.
Dr. Montes also revealed how even a fiscal from the Department of Justice, a certain Atty. Romeo Sanson, defiled due process when he merely did a “roll call” of the detained health workers during the inquest, did not explain anything to them, and ignored their demands for their own legal counsel.
HEAD warned about the tactics being employed by the AFP as a clear and present danger to the Filipino people.
“It seems to be the institutional character of the AFP to conveniently resurrect the communist bogey every time they are caught flagrantly violating basic human rights.” Said Dr. Rivera, “The military establishment wants us to believe that they can just call anyone NPAs, detain them while fabricating evidences and witnesses, and then file cases against them to justify their actions.”
“The AFP is now acting as the judge, jury, and executioner. Worse, the DOJ is their willing accomplice in this grave injustice!”
“The military and police are acting as though the Philippines is back in the heydays of Martial Law. The Arroyo government, true to form as a Marcos-copycat, is using its counter-insurgency program Oplan Bantay Laya not against the armed rebels but against unarmed civilians,” concluded Dr. Rivera. ####
References:
Dr. Geneve E. Rivera
Secretary-General, 0920 460 3712
Dr. Gene Alzona Nisperos
Vice-Chair, 0927 483 2325
Dr. Darby S. Santiago
Chair, 0927 473 7700
Monday, February 15, 2010
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