#AFP-PNPOutofUP

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The state fascists are threatening the University of the Philippines, and all its students and constituents - and thus all critics of the administration - with the unilateral abrogation of the UP-DND Accord.

The UP-DND Accord is an agreement that requires state forces (AFP-PNP) to inform and coordinate with the UP Administration prior to entering and conducting operations within UP campuses. For nearly 50 years, the Accord has protected students from being unjustly harassed and arrested by state forces who used to openly drag students out of classrooms (especially during the martial law years). 

However, a letter from the Dept. of National Defense Secretary to the UP President unilaterally terminates this Accord and is full of redtagging students WITHOUT SOLID PROOF, and attempting to violate academic freedom and militarize UP campuses. (No, they have no proof of recruiters from the NPA or other insurgents in UP.)

This is a blatant attempt to suppress and discredit critics of the Duterte administration, in light of the implementation of the Anti-Terror Law. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this action is also aimed at: (1) interfering with peaceful protests and rallies held within UP campuses; and (2) reach the Lumad communities (national minorities / indigenous peoples) who take refuge within UP after being displaced from their ancestral homes by these same state forces.

This also sets the precedent for other educational institutions to also be targeted; and is another attempt to distract the masses from other abuses and failures of the Duterte administration, such as the PNP’s incompetence in the Christine Dacera case, the murders of Sonya and Frank Gregorio by a policeman, the 15 billion pesos stolen from PhilHealth (national healthcare insurance), the choice by the national government of a Chinese vaccine despite its higher cost, and countless human rights violations that have continued during the pandemic.

The state forces redtag, suppress, and kill students, critics, activists, national minorities, workers, farmers, the poor, etc. without proof or due process under the lie of protecting the rights of many: the AFP, PNP, and the rest of the Duterte administration are the true terrorists and recruiters.

[To anyone who sees this, please take the time to at least read up on this situation in the Philippines, or at least reblog to help spread the word. They are targeting the University of the Philippines today and they will come for other universities too. The police and military will shoot us and say the bullets are from state-designated "insurgents.” We are not safe and we cannot afford to remain silent.]

Tags: #DefendUP #DefendAcademicFreedom #NoToCampusMilitarization #DefendAncestralLands #HandsOffOurStudents #HandsOffActivists #ActivismIsNotTerrorism #ACAB #politics #Philippines