The University of the Philippines' Department of Broadcast Communication is spearheading the year-long celebration of the 100th year of broadcasting in the Philippines.
“Through the years of continuous harassment and intimidation, castigation and arrest, they had continued on this road less travelled by – to teach and learn with the masses, to believe in justice and education for all,” said the statement from the UPD Office of the Chancellor Executive Staff led by Chancellor Fidel Nemezo and composed of vice chancellors, university registrar and director of the UPD Information Office.
Atom Araullo and mom Carol share their activism journeys in first joint interview By MARISSE PANALIGAN, GMA News
Published February 9, 2021 6:00pm Award-winning journalist Atom Araullo has always been a proud son of Dr. Carol Pagaduan Araullo, an activist who fought against the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos. The two share similar backgrounds as graduates of the University of the Philippines, and they both eventually became student activists during their time in Diliman. In their first-ever joint interview as mother and son, Atom and Carol told Noel Ferrer of “Level Up Exclusive” on Radyo Katipunan their similar but separate journeys into activism.
By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published January 26, 2021 1:47pm Officials of the University of the Philippines Diliman on Tuesday asserted academic freedom as they denounced the red-tagging that followed the termination of the pact that kept state forces out of its campuses for decades. The UP Diliman Executive Committee said no less than the 1987 Constitution guarantees academic freedom for all institutions of higher education. The UP community is protesting the unilateral abrogation of the university s 1989 agreement with the Department of National Defense which barred state forces from entering campus without prior notice to school officials. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who ended the pact without consulting UP, said the accord is obsolete. He claimed that UP is a hotbed for communist recruitment.
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The Philippine government announced Monday that it had terminated an agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP) that prohibits state security forces from entering its campuses, leading to protests by students and faculty and fears of academic repression.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he had ended the UP-DND accord, signed in 1989 between the university and then-defense chief Fidel Ramos, citing baseless claims that the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) are recruiting students on campus.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s government has escalated its “anti-communist” operations in recent months, although critics say it is simply using unfounded accusations in a thinly veiled attempt to crack down on the administration’s political opponents.