To: All Councilors, UPVCC-SC
From: The Chairperson
Re: General Assembly
Warm Greetings!
The University of the Philippines has never been spared from the problems besetting greater society. If in the national scene we see concerted moves by Arroyo’s regime to crackdown on media and its perceived critics and opponents, locally we see moves for the revival of compulsory ROTC (Reserved Officer Training Corps) as directed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Department of National Defense (DND).
This of course is nothing new. Suppression has always been the State’s standard response to the undying calls for fundamental social change. It is the desperation of the current administration in a bid to stay in power that led to the current situation of unbridled abuse of the people’s basic rights and civil liberties. This is despite questions to its legitimacy and capacity to effectively represent the real interests of the broad masses.
Let us therefore provide the necessary precautions against the return of a program that epitomizes not only the repressive character of education but its commercialized and mercenary tradition as well. Let us initiate the broadest principled unity to defy intensifying political repression!
This of course is nothing new. Suppression has always been the State’s standard response to the undying calls for fundamental social change. It is the desperation of the current administration in a bid to stay in power that led to the current situation of unbridled abuse of the people’s basic rights and civil liberties. This is despite questions to its legitimacy and capacity to effectively represent the real interests of the broad masses.
Let us therefore provide the necessary precautions against the return of a program that epitomizes not only the repressive character of education but its commercialized and mercenary tradition as well. Let us initiate the broadest principled unity to defy intensifying political repression!
The Order of Business for the next meeting is as follows:
1. Approval of Agenda
2. Approval of the Minutes from the Previous Meeting
3. Business Arising from the Previous Meeting
4. Communications
5. Announcements
6. Appointment of Secretariat
7. House Rules
8. On the Revival of Mandatory ROTC (Reserved Officer Training Program)
9. Other Matters
We will have our second General Assembly, 6:00 PM this March 14, 2006 (Tuesday) at the Student Council Office. Please come on time.
In the advancement of genuine freedom and democracy,
Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Chairperson
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