20/08/2018
We, students, organizations, and student groups should be united to fight for our basic political and civil liberties. We should be united in our fight for our right to education and our democratic rights. That is why we would like to create these unities with the student body and hear every possible concern and demand from the students, teachers, staff, and administrators as well.
As a United Engineering community, we will be collating these demand and create the college manifesto of unity to show our utmost support for our multi-sectoral and national concerns.
Answer the form at: tinyurl.com/EnggCollegeDemand
[ENGINEERING COLLEGE DEMAND SURVEY]
For the longest time, it has been the unity of the student body to unite and fight for the genuine, just, and immediate interests of the youth and of the people. The chronic crisis worsening under the Duterte regime are subjecting the Filipino people to intense poverty, hunger, oppression and further marginalization. Massive state violence, aggravating economic conditions, and anti-people policies have created a precarious environment designed to satisfy the insatiable hunger for power and profit at the expense of forsaking the rights and liberties the Filipino people should be exercising.
As the national crisis intensifies, so does the situation of the youth. Being the biggest college in the flagship campus of the UP system, it is essential for every Inhinyero ng Bayan to converge on all fronts and create the broadest unity among the student body against threats to our democracy and the exercise of our fundamental rights. The mark of genuine service to the people is the relentless struggle against every threat to our liberty, both national and domestic.
The struggle of the youth for the longest time has been its fight for a national, scientific, and mass-oriented educational system. Guided by the principle that education is a right, and should not be made a commodity nor a tool for suppression and further exploitation, we have relentlessly fought for our right to education and made significant strides in forwarding our cause. The materialization of this right is not only confined to the abolition of tuition and other school fees, but also the full realization of our student democratic rights.
In addition, our professors are burdened with juggling administrative, teaching and research loads because of very limited teaching items available. Thus, the problem of limited hiring of new faculty members. Our fight for free education, which is also a fight to end contractualization, demands incentives and benefits for our staff, and more teaching loads for our faculty.
In relation to this, the Engineering Representatives to the USC together with the Engineering Student Council and Rise for Education (R4E) Alliance in the College of Engineering would like to establish the broadest unity of the Engineering community in particular matters we are facing as a whole. We believe that only through our collective militant struggle can we emerge victorious from the social problems that pester our everyday lives.
Therefore, we, students, organizations, and student groups should be united to fight for our basic political and civil liberties. We should be united in our fight for our right to education and our democratic rights. That is why we would like to create these unities with the student body and hear every possible concern and demand from the students, teachers, staff, and administrators as well.
As a United Engineering community, we will be collating these demand and create the college manifesto of unity to show our utmost support for our multi-sectoral and national concerns.
Answer the form at: tinyurl.com/EnggCollegeDemand
