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PERA: Saan nga ba napupunta? --------------------------------------------------------------------------

May pera sa korupsyon, wala sa edukasyon.

Jun Lozada at the college of law Sa gitna ng krisis na kinakaharap ng lipunang Pilipino, nakikita na natin kung saan ba talaga napupunta ang pera ng taong bayan. Ang maanumalyang NBN-ZTE deal ay isa lamang sa maraming mga proyekto ng gobyerno na umano’y malalaki ang kickback ng mga taong nakipagtransaksiyon para dito. Ang halaga ng NBN-ZTE deal, ayon kay Jun Lozada, ay $329 milyon at ang komisyon na umano’y hinihingi ni Benjamin Abalos ay $130 milyon.Inamin din naman ni Secretary Romulo Neri na tinangka siyang bigyan ng 200 milyong piso para mapadali ang transaksiyon ng NBN-ZTE deal.

Napakalaking pera ang nakikita nating napunta lamang sa bulsa ng iilang mga tao sa proyektong ito. Ngunit nakapagtataka kung bakit ang laging sagot ng pamahalaan kapag humihingi ng budget ang UP ay wala tayong sapat na pera.

Sa ika-isang daan taon ng unibersidad ng Pilipinas, hindi ito parin ito hiwalay sa mga isyu ng mas malaking lipunan. Ang hinihingi ng UP para mapatakbo ng maayos ang kanyang 11 isang units ay mahigit kumulang sampung bilyong piso. Ang ibinigay lamang ng pamahalaan ay anim na bilyong piso, dahil nga wala raw pera ang gobyerno.

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ACLE: Facing reality

by: Hannah Faith Dormido (J117 requirement)
February 6, 2008
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Unpopular realities captured in reels.

Three films by the Southern Tagalog Exposure(STex), an independent multimedia
collective of young artists and workers based in Southern Tagalog (Region IV),were shown as an Alternative Classroom Learning Experience (ACLE) last January 24 in the University of the Philippines Diliman.

"Pushing the Parameters" is a documentary about people's lawyers and their experiences because of “lawyering for the people.” The film shows lawyers who were killed while handling cases such as land disputes and human rights violations. Killing the people's lawyers, as the film showed, became the easiest way to stop them from bringing the law to the level the masses understood. Pushing the Parameters conveyed that "legal struggle is only an aspect of struggle" so meta-legal actions should be explored.

from Edge Genciagan of STex said people's lawyers are "not ordinary" lawyers. "They (people's lawyers) are experiencing persecution perpetrated by the government," he said.

The second film, “Red Saga” is an experimental film said Genciagan. There was no narration or dialogues, only background music through out the film.It showed the roots of armed struggle in the countryside; how an innocent boy who once played freely in the rice fields ended up holding firearms and fighting the military, one of the repressive state apparatuses. “Red Saga” is part of the Kontra-Agos Film Festival and was directed by Gabriela Krista Dalena.

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