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Kalamidad at Kultura Ng Disaster: Pandestrungka Sa Kawanggawa at Terorismong Dulot Ng Estado 27 Choy Pangilinan Volume 1 Number 2 | January 2013 Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND) and Commission on Concern 11: Rights of Teachers, Researchers and Other Education Personnel, International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS) Volume 1 Number 2 | January 2013 Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND) and Commission on Concern 11: Rights of Teachers, Researchers and Other Education Personnel, International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS) PINGKIAN Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-imperialist Education Volume 1 Number 2 ISSN-2244-3142 Copyright© 2013 CONTEND and ILPS All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, except for brief quotations for the purpose of research or private study, or criticism or review, without permission of the publisher. Editors Gonzalo Campoamor II (University of the Philippines) Peter Chua (San Jose State University, USA) Gerry Lanuza (University of the Philippines) Roland Tolentino (University of the Philippines) Layout Fred Dabu Cover design Rowena Bayon International Advisory Board Delia Aguilar (University of Connecticut) Joi Barrios (University of California, Berkely) Jonathan Beller (Pratt Institute) Ramon Guillermo (University of the Philippines, Diliman) Caroline Hau (Kyoto University) Bienvenido Lumbera (University of the Philippines, Diliman) Elmer Ordonez Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (University of California, Davis) Epifanio San Juan, Jr. (University of Texas, Austin) Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College) Judy Taguiwalo (University of the Philippines, Diliman) Ed Villegas (University of the Philippines, Manila) PINGKIAN , e-Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-imperialist Education, is published by the Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND) and the Commission on Concern 11: Rights of Teachers, Researchers and Other Education Personnel, International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS). Papers submitted for consideration should be sent to the editors at [email protected]. PINGKIAN Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-imperialist Education Volume 1 Number 2 ISSN-2244-3142 Copyright© 2013 CONTEND and ILPS All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, except for brief quotations for the purpose of research or private study, or criticism or review, without permission of the publisher. Editors Gonzalo Campoamor II (University of the Philippines) Peter Chua (San Jose State University, USA) Gerry Lanuza (University of the Philippines) Roland Tolentino (University of the Philippines) Layout Fred Dabu Cover design Rowena Bayon International Advisory Board Delia Aguilar (University of Connecticut) Joi Barrios (University of California, Berkely) Jonathan Beller (Pratt Institute) Ramon Guillermo (University of the Philippines, Diliman) Caroline Hau (Kyoto University) Bienvenido Lumbera (University of the Philippines, Diliman) Elmer Ordonez Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (University of California, Davis) Epifanio San Juan, Jr. (University of Texas, Austin) Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College) Judy Taguiwalo (University of the Philippines, Diliman) Ed Villegas (University of the Philippines, Manila) PINGKIAN , e-Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-imperialist Education, is published by the Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND) and the Commission on Concern 11: Rights of Teachers, Researchers and Other Education Personnel, International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS). Papers submitted for consideration should be sent to the editors at [email protected]. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 ANG MGA GAMIT NG TEORYA NG MEDIA AT LIPUNAN, O TEORYA NG KRITIKAL NA BUHAY AT LIPUNAN 5 Rolando B. Tolentino ANG MARXISTANG LAPIT SA ISYU NG KABABAIHAN 11 Judy M. Taguiwalo CRITICAL PEDAGOGY 23 #RescuePH or why the class struggle is alive and kicking 23 Sarah Raymundo Kalamidad at Kultura ng Disaster: Pandestrungka sa Kawanggawa at Terorismong Dulot ng Estado 27 Choy Pangilinan Neoliberalismo at Pambansang Wikang Filipino 31 Gonzalo Campoamor II Mula Batas Militar hanggang Oplan Bayanihan 47 Rommel B. Rodriguez NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SCHOLARSHIP 49 Philippine NGOs: Defusing Dissent, Spurring Change 49 Sonny Africa INTERVIEWS 67 Charity Diño: Gurong Makabayan, Bilanggong Politikal 67 Rommel B. Rodriguez Tanikala at Talinhaga: Ang Rebolusyonaryo Bilang Artista at Bilanggong Pulitikal 71 Kerima Tariman and Rommel Rodriguez TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 ANG MGA GAMIT NG TEORYA NG MEDIA AT LIPUNAN, O TEORYA NG KRITIKAL NA BUHAY AT LIPUNAN 5 Rolando B. Tolentino ANG MARXISTANG LAPIT SA ISYU NG KABABAIHAN 11 Judy M. Taguiwalo CRITICAL PEDAGOGY 23 #RescuePH or why the class struggle is alive and kicking 23 Sarah Raymundo Kalamidad at Kultura ng Disaster: Pandestrungka sa Kawanggawa at Terorismong Dulot ng Estado 27 Choy Pangilinan Neoliberalismo at Pambansang Wikang Filipino 31 Gonzalo Campoamor II Mula Batas Militar hanggang Oplan Bayanihan 47 Rommel B. Rodriguez NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SCHOLARSHIP 49 Philippine NGOs: Defusing Dissent, Spurring Change 49 Sonny Africa INTERVIEWS 67 Charity Diño: Gurong Makabayan, Bilanggong Politikal 67 Rommel B. Rodriguez Tanikala at Talinhaga: Ang Rebolusyonaryo Bilang Artista at Bilanggong Pulitikal 71 Kerima Tariman and Rommel Rodriguez STATEMENTS 75 INTRODUCTION Teaching Against the Imperialist Pedagogical Regime 75 CONTEND on International Teachers Day Salute the People’s Resistance to Fascist Rule 79 ACT on the 40th Year of Imposition of Martial Law ANOTHER YEAR OF INTENSE ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE AHEAD Redeeming the Sufferings from the Terror of Martial Law The Worsening Crisis of Education Worldwide and the Intensifying Resistance By Intensifying People’s Anti-Imperialist and Democraic Struggles 83 th of Anti-Imperialist Educators and Movements CONTEND on the 40 Anniversary of the Declaration of Martial Law Padrino ng Independensiya ng Pilipinas 87 CONTEND and ACT on the 114th Anniversary Of the Declaration of Independence Another year of intense struggle ahead. As the neoliberal and imperialist siege of educational institutions worldwide mounts, radical educators and teachers must close rank with other progressive DOCUMENTS 89 sectors of society and the world to provide timely analysis of the local and global reach of imperialist assault on educational system. Education today is in a state of permanent crisis as a result of the Road Map to Public Higher Education Reform 2011-2016 neoliberal policies that define the orientation of education and its goals. Even students had made their Commission on Higher Education own version of Occupy Movement. Last year, Cooper Union students of New York seized the clock tower atop the school's headquarters and hung a banner urging the administration to keep the school tuition- CHED Memorandum Order Number 09 Series of 2012 free for undergraduates. According to International Student Movement website, “In June 2012 alone, we Guidelines on the Grant and Allocation of the Disbursement Allocation Fund recorded 45 protests in more than 40 cities in connection with the struggle for free emancipatory Commission on Higher Education education.” The intensifying commercialization of education worldwide results to rising tuition fees, low salaries of educational workers, the contractualization of teachers and the deterioration of public schools' facilities. As a result of imperialist shrinking of the globe in order to facilitate the flow of capital and labor through superinformation highway and knowledge-based technologies, education today has become more and more enmeshed with the wider crisis of capitalist ideological state apparatuses and repressive machineries. As educators we cannot remain purely ensconced in the world of schools and educational issues no matter how they are relevant to our daily grind as teachers. We must be able to link and frame educational crisis within the wider horizon of the historic crisis of capitalism worldwide and the resurgence of mass movements that seek to end the brutalizing violence of imperialist assault on basic social services and workers' rights. Hence in this second issue of Pingkian, the contributors address a host of problem that the current historical conjuncture of capitalism breeds. The first article of Roland B. Tolentino elaborates the role of critical media theory to demystify the alienating and reifying power of simulated images spewed in mass media channels under monopoly capitalism. Using the Lacanian theory of the Slovenian Leninist pop intellectual, Slavoj Zizek, Tolentino strongly advocates for a critical media theory that goes beyond superficial criticism of signs. The end of theory is “ang pagpapangalan sa karanasan at sa kinabukasan” [to name the present and the future]. In the second article, Judy M. Taguiwalo provides a much needed analysis and elaboration on the “woman question” in Marxist scholarship. By going to the texts of classical Marxist writers such as Engels, Lenin, Bebel, and Kollontai, Taguiwalo is able to demonstrate the saliency of feminism within classical Marxism. And then she elaborates on the possible dialectical reproachment of class analysis with the “woman question.” The current issue also includes four original papers delivered during the University of the Philippine Diliman Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy's (UP-CONTEND) 1 STATEMENTS 75 INTRODUCTION Teaching
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