The presidential spokesman, who speaks of his 25-year ties with UP, gets irked by a challenge for UP alumni in the Duterte government to denounce the DND decision
Bill filed to institutionalize agreement limiting police, military presence inside UP campuses nationwide
A MEASURE that will institutionalize the 1989 agreement between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) that limits military and police presence in UP campuses nationwide has been filed in the Senate.
Bill No. 2002 will amend Republic Act No. 9500, the University of the Philippines Charter of 2008, to prevent the entry of security forces in the facilities of the country’s biggest state-run academic institution without prior authorization from the school administration.
“The UP-DND accord is not a ‘Do not enter’ sign that bars law enforcement from entering the campus. It is not a wall which obstructs justice or deters the solution or prevention of crime,” the explanatory note of the bill read.
Call to #DefendUP unites rival student political groups
Jan 20, 2021 9:27 PM PHT
Two rival student political groups in the University of the Philippines (UP) in the 1980s and 1990s cast aside their differences to form a united front in defending the state university after the government terminated the agreement that prevented state forces from entering their campus.
In a joint statement on Wednesday, January 20, UP alumni and members of the Sandigan para sa Mag-aaral at Sambayanan (SAMASA) and Nagkakaisang Tugon denounced abrogation of the 1989 UP-Department of National Defense (DND) pact, saying that the move was the government’s latest initiative against activism and dissent, an initiative heralded by last year’s passage of the Anti-Terror Act of 2020.
Instead of ending UP, PUP accord with DND, Escudero suggests other universities should enter same pact
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Francis “Chiz” Escudero, an alumni of the
University of the Philippines, suggested that all universities should enter the similar pact with the military following the termination of the
1989 UP-DND accord.
The longstanding agreement between the military and the state-run university was terminated via a letter, citing claims that UP campuses were allegedly recruitment grounds for communist rebels.
The accord mainly prohibits the military and the police from entering the UP campus without permission or notification from the UP administration except in in hot pursuit or in similar emergency cases and if it was requested by UP officials.
CNN Philippines host Pinky Webb got a thumbs up from Twitter fans when she handled the tantrum of Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque Jr. with a hair-flip during a live interview on Jan. 20.
Netizens lauded Webb for being calm and composed when she talked to Roque on the proposal to allow military