Anakbayan CIT-U

THE FIGHT OF EDSA LIVES ON!
PROTEST @ FUENTE OSMEÑA, 9am - February 25

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Anakbayan - CIT-U calls on the Technologian student body to remember the fight of the People Power Uprising. In the midst of great state repression, the people did not cower in fear as they poured millions into the streets in order to overthrow the fascist Marcos regime.

As early as the 70s, the Kabataang Makabayan and Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan organized in CIT-U in order to launch protests and strikes against the ruling Marcos regime which at that point had begun to show its true repressive colors. In 1983, the CIT Alliance of Concerned Technologians led boycotts in December and strikes in March which led to the Battle of CIT in March 1983 which injured many after security guards hit a student with a baton.

Anakbayan - CIT-U remembers the likes of James Orbe, Ramon Michael Doong, Arnulfo Ortiz and many more Technologians who died in the struggle as early as the 70s and 80s to pave way for the people to overthrow the Marcos fascist regime.

Many of these street barricades reached Cebu, such as those in Fuente Osmeña, Freedom Park, Carbon Market, US Consulate, Cebu Provincial Capitol, Katipunan St., and the likes.

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The Progressive Alliance of Concerned Technologians (PACT - CIT) remembers the Bakwit school raid which happened yesterday three years ago. As Technologians, we are not the last in the fight against militarization.

Ramon Michael Doong was killed by security guards in 1970 for participating in a student protest. The Alliance of Concerned Technologians held protests which were repressed by CIT-U security guards which led to the Battle of CIT in March 1984.

Lumad communities have been the victims of grave militarization throughout the years. The literacy schools of the Tribal Filipino Program of Surigao del Sur, ALCADEV, Program for Mamanwa Integrated Services for Development and the likes alongside even missionary and church groups such as the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines - NMR have been actively vilified as “NPA” schools or “illegal” schools.

Teachers being stopped at mobile checkpoints, illegally searched, questioned and harassed have become “normal” occurrences. School grounds are surrounded by armed military men, students interrogated and teachers are accused about being members of the NPA.

In July 2009, the TRIFPSS school in Surigao del Sur was closed down when residents were forced to evacuate due to the encampment of the 58th IBPA. In November 2015, the ALCADEV teachers’ cottage and its nursery was burned down to the ground by the military. In September of 2016, another school was ransacked with books, school equipment and structures damaged.

Extrajudicial killings have also been frequent throughout Lumad communities.

Our struggle against campus militarization in the 1980s and repression is not so far from the struggle of the Lumads against the militarization of their communities. The killings and terror against Lumad national minorities is a violation of human rights. PACT - CIT stands with our Lumad brothers and sisters: Save our Schools! Stop Lumad Killings!

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