The barricaders didn’t retreat to their classrooms but embraced the streets, marching arm-in-arm with farmers, workers, jeepney drivers, echoing their call for national democracy.
Holding the fort: The spirit of the barricades lives on
Tags: UP-DND Accord
What makes The Accord* special?
Those activists taught us how to expand, how to imagine the world with compassion, a sense of mission and commitment, freely, creatively and scientifically. None of our goals end when our personal ambitions shatter. There is a bigger picture to this accord and even to the so-called student power that made it possible.
Lumad students vow to defend UP, their sanctuary
“We will defend UP, our sanctuary, as much as it has defended us.” – Lumad student
‘Termination of UP-DND Accord had no legal basis’ – law expert
“DND, in its letter, has failed to show any overriding public interest to interfere with UP’s academic freedom. It did not show any clear and present danger which can limit a student or a professor’s civil liberty to freely think and express his or her view.”