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On Public Utility Vehicle Phaseout

The Marcos Jr. administration is keen to impose the death knell to the livelihood of thousands of PUV operators and drivers.

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The Death of Jose Maria Sison (Joma)

Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has died after two weeks of hospitalization. This news has led millions all over the world to mourn, as many count him as a freedom fighter. He is known for drawing up a thorough analysis of Philippine society through collective study and struggle that led other young cadre of the old Communist Party to leave and form their own. This analysis led the basis for the ongoing anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, anti-feudal revolution in the Philippines.

The CPP was especially relevant to the Unification Church as Marcos was ousted and the CPP taking power became an increasing threat. 

The CPP and the National Democratic movement were vital to the popular movement built up around ousting Marcos. Following the People Power Revolution, which ousted Marcos in 1986, the Unification Church’s institutions flooded the Philippines, organizing conferences with influential cultural figures, as well as active and retired agents of US and Philippine military and intelligence agencies. These conferences played a major role in forming the general counterinsurgency program of the Philippines following Marcos, which consisted of pro-US propaganda on the TV, radio, and education system, that also prepared Filipinos to have their labor exported abroad, as well as arming and developing autonomous anti-communist vigilante groups as the Philippine military slowly develops with the the active aid and mentorship of the US. This was all alongside ramping up neoliberal policies with empty or very limited land reforms, which of course increases the Philippine economy’s dependency on exporting Philippine labor. 

The Philippine Government has had an unending string of bad presidents following Marcos, coming from wealthy bureaucrat capitalist families that control the military, government, and economy, and secure the role of semi-feudalism and peasant exploitation in society, all while shamelessly using vigilante and vigilante-style tactics on those combatting their corrupt governments, from members of Communist organizations to LGBTQ+ activists, priests and nuns, teachers, social workers, etc. All of this violence has continually fed the movement for national democracy with a socialist perspective.

Prior to becoming a combatant, Sison was a professor and organizer in the old Communist Party. He organized among students and in his workplace. He is remembered for being a jovial, delightful man who never stopped organizing for the Philippine revolution, even after imprisonment and being exiled from the land he fought for. 

Today the Philippine revolution grows with thousands of combatants on all major islands of the Philippines, and growing bases among the peasantry and support among the working masses. The National Democratic revolution wages on, fighting on behalf of workers, LGBTQ+ people, women, seafarers, peasants, children, etc., despite the increased bombings and strafing in the countryside, despite the countless revolutionaries and activists who have been murdered the past few years by the police and army using Moonie-owned SNT Motiv weapons. 

These weapons are not the only way the Unification Church is complicit. The continued anti-communist murders of thousands of people in the Philippines is the ongoing legacy of the UC’s organizing in the late 80s. CAUSA actively supported and organized vigilante groups, including Alsa Masa, a group responsible for the murder of thousands. 

The New People’s Army continues to swell with people who love the people. As the Revolution Selfie documentary remarks, more people get involved with the revolution because of Jesus than Marx. It was the Christian value of loving your neighbor that led so many to take up this struggle.

It was this Christian value that Sison embodied. And now Sison’s legacy lives on brilliantly in the people’s continued struggle. 

I hope we will all do what we can to support those on the front line fighting imperialism, as their fight is our own. The only way we can take down the enemy here is by having the enemy fall down all over the world.

Long live international solidarity!

Seasonally relevant video of Jose Maria Sison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PtaI-Ly9Js

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3.8.99 Thank you ❤ 📷 @kirsteljoooy (at IHAN, Kiblawan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nobRfgBA7/?igshid=1muvjm4hp36mj

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USeP-Obrero Campus Student Council Executive Department 2019-2020 ❤ Hapit na mag-end atong term but it feels like we are always learning and you are all always there. Thank you. Thank you Team Paragon @paragon_usep for the oppurtunity to serve the students. It's been 3 years of experience as CongRep for CE, Internal VP and Pres. Thank you people for the support. 3 months ahead, let's make it more meaningful! (at University of Southeastern Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9QFXCNgp6c/?igshid=avl7sc5vgwtr

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Discovery is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what everybody has though (Szent-Györgi, 1937) I am blessed with my groupmates, @jananeninonu the finance and logistics head, @vicentefaelnar the technical head and @villejohnalaba the overall head. Chaaar, go higher Team Hexamine! Next stop, Engineering Congress ❤ (at University of Southeastern Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/B53s4CuAHBq/?igshid=gzxss1p0c3e8

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Dinner x2 (at University of Southeastern Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwBHPIlAsZr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qvss2si3avbj

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2-day Legislative Convention of the USeP SSG-House of Representatives. 📷 @ocsc_hor USG Constitution, ratified! How many sleepness nights have I spent to write a for this Constitution? Hahaha I was lucky kay ang IVP nako kay si tong cong rep pa ko kay si Kuya Wenno, he inspired me to do things more than what is expected of you, wa char. Hawd jud mukutaw si Kuya Wenno hahaha, makakutaw jud ug utok iyang insights.. Kabalo pud ko nga si SR Sual kay gipaghirapan nila ang nahimo na nga 2017 draft of consti, although wala man to nadayon sa past, we sought jud na ipush to. Mao nang happy kaayo ko nga nisupport jud si Kuya Wenno ug si SR Sual sa move nga magdraft ug usab, and I am very happy for that. Although nanghinayang man for the 2017 draft, wala ko nila gipinggan to input some amendment. And karun naa na jud ni nga Constitution... the USG Constitution: A Constitution focused on unifying all of the campus SCs of USeP, on the rights of the students, paves the way for the creation of the Magna Carta of Students, rejects personality-based politics, emphasizes the accountability of the students officers, clarifies the role of the Adviser and the OSAS in USG, strengthens the power of the purse of the legislature and institutes the speaker of the HOR. It also supports UAQTEA. Thank you Raymund, Kim, Vince, Jeanette, Ainee, Dino. Congress Representatives from Bislig, Mabini, Mintal, Obrero and Tagum. Salamat kay Kuya Josh, Marc and Jana for spearheading the prep for this event. para sa USeP, para sa bayan! (at University of Southeastern Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btqv3xdlwyV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xieeqbcefnio

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Viva (at Redemptorist Church / Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish - Davao City) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs23WDjAD6f/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ogmznox3vjk7

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AEcEs Fun Night https://www.instagram.com/p/BpKD4-1gbZf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16w82mot0f8pa

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AEcES Fun Night https://www.instagram.com/p/BpKDsVGgoah/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hm8957vp2wub

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G!

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photos: Karston Skinny Tannis IG: http://bit.ly/1JeVuki

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photos: Karston Skinny Tannis IG: http://bit.ly/1JeVuki

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I luv my sisters and brothers

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The end of it

Hear O white, Hear my shout; Weak my cloak, Wear my load.

Winter’s deep here, No one can see, This be the last They see me be.

Farewell, I’ll vanish; Goodbye, I’d be caved, None dared to see, Or hear me be.

They see me stout But in woe I run, For I am crushed, Shattered, concealed, smiling.

Shower it to me, All of misfortunes! Damn me to die, Curse me to hell!

I am finished. I’ll stop and end it This be the end, You see me be!

As I see my feet, Fall from high up, I know ‘tis my fate And end is nearer

Hear O white, Hear my shout; Wear my cloak, Wear my load.

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Last time we went to Saekhana Study Hub Cafe Davao. The atmosphere really fits for a certain style of studying--a did-somebody-die-just-now-or-they-are-just-doing-the-mannequin-challenge type of studying. If you are one of the people that find it cool that way, the study session is Php 100.00 per 2 hours and Php 150.00 for 8 hours (what a good marketing strategy. I mean who the heck will go there, then just spend 2 hours). I would also recommend this place to all coffee lovers because they have unlimited brewed coffee for your stay there. They also have other options other than coffee and it costs for an average of Php 80.00.  Other than their coffee, their sanitation is also commendable. If you are an OCD in cleanliness, this place is where your heaven lies. The comfort room reminds you of a hotel CR (well, except that it’s just 3 m sq., no tub, no heater, and no free mini-shampoo, mini-conditioner, mini-toothpaste, and mini-hand moisturizer.) If you have extra-disposable money (that’s the term), you can opt to acquire membership, and when you upgrade it, you can reserve seat at a specific place there. Their service is somewhat fine, they’re not so welcoming and not so warm, but they are attentive to your complaints. However, and their inspirational quotes all over the wall makes the Study Hub more artsy and edgy. Because it makes you think of your tuition fee and your mother that awaits you if ever you failed subject/s. However, the solitude style of studying is not my cup of tea. In fact there’s a time that I really want to laugh on a certain picture over the net but I can’t because every time you a move, and/or make a little screech, the eyes of other people will be pierced at you. So every move should be muted. Unfortunately, I’m not used that way. I’m more on head-banging-war-shock studying with earphones on. So probably that’s my first and last. Our rating: 6.5 out of 10