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Pingkian Vol3 Num1 Part10f2 Sept2014 VOLUME 03 NUMBER 01 PART 1 of 2 Volume 3 Number 1 | September 2014 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 Volume 3 Number 1 Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-imperialist Education ISSN-2244-3142 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrievalCopyright© system, 2014 or CONTEND transmitted, and in ILPS 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) CoverRoland Design Tolentino and Layout(University of the Philippines) InternationalTilde Acuña 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) TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 EDUCATION ESSAYS Occupy Feminism BenjaminDelia D. Aguilar Appel’s Fortress in the Rice: American Testimony 4 to the Emergence of the Philippine Neocolony What’sE. San Juan, Up withJr. Sociology in the Philippines? 19 NATIONAL Tom DEMOCRATIC Talledo STUDIES 31 Weak or Strong State: The Implications of Self-organization in a Disaster-Prone Community in the Philippines OnEdgie the Francis growing B. Uyanguren economic cooperation& Glennis S. Uyanguren between China and Russia 37 COMMENTARY Jose Maria Sison 46 Blame, Shame, Injustice NOTES FROMIonell POLITICALJay R. Terogo DETAINEES 51 Need for Drastic Healing MakeAlan Jazmines the Butcher Palparan Pay Dearly for 57 All his Capital Crimes against the People 59 LITERARY FOLIO Bagamat Walang Katiyakan O Kahihitnanan, Umaasa Pa Rin Ang Sugalero.... PagtutuosE. San Juan, Sa Jr. Hinulugang Taktak, Antipolo, Rizal 62 HINDIE. San Juan, MADALA Jr. SA DALAHIRA: 64 Litanya sa Panahon ng Globalisasyong Neoliberal TranskripsyonE. San Juan, Jr. Ng Ilang Bytes Ng Kompyuter Ng Nasa, Washington, Dc,Usa 67 SaE. San Hagupit Juan, Jr.Ni Yolanda, Nagkabuhol-Buhol 69 E. San Juan, Jr. 70 DOCUMENTS & STATEMENTS (See Part 2 of 2) INTRODUCTION Teachers as Public Intellectuals: Teaching to Impeach a Bureaucrat Capitalist President Worldwide capitalism is in crisis. Its designs to contain its “dark other” like terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, and the countless protests movements welling up from ghettoes and from the ranks of the marginalized, unemployed, and homeless continue to haunt the crisis-ridden capitalism. The “return of the repressed” cannot be denied anymore. Capitalist crisis tears apart what Marx called the “operating fraternity of the capitalist class” and produces an all-out fight for survival between capitalists themselves, and of capital against the working class. Today, the Left has made a stunning comeback, while Marxist scholarship continues to rise in unprecedented phase. Today, more than ever, the scientific analysis of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao continue to inform a large number of social movements worldwide who are ready to overthrow the shackles of capitalism on the poor of the world. The materialist analysis of history provides a compelling and accurate analysis of the continuing US-backed Israel genocide against the Palestinians. It is also able to provide summative insights into the continuing In the Philippines, the current crisis of global capitalism reaches its acme in the moral and political bankruptcy of the US-Aquino Regime. The enormous outpouring of people on the streets during the fifth state of the nation address of Pres. Aquino serves as a historical testament to the mounting indignation of the vast masses of people against bureaucrat capitalism. The Million March held last August 26, 2013 at the Rizal Park in Manila only showed the converging political dissatisfaction with the ruling cliques of Pres. Aquino. And for its second anniversary, the Million March that showed people’s indignation against pork barrel system, will push for people’s initiative that would drastically clip the exploitative tentacles of bureaucrat capitalism. With three impeachment complaints lodged against Pres. Aquino, and the fourth one filed by educators dumped by the political gang men of Pres. Aquino in the House of Representatives, the remaining years of Pres. Aquino will be a rough sailing, if not, a total wreck if he is successfully impeached. Hence the immediate task of teachers and educators today is to embrace fully the historic role and duties of public intellectuals. Teachers are not simply employed by the state to become sycophants and choir members of the ruling class. Teachers, as public intellectuals, have the duty not only to teach, but to speak in behalf of the informed public about accountability and social justice. They have to join educational workers union and movements to demand and advocate for social transformation. If teachers and educators refuse this historic role, they will miss the great opportunity to lead and advance the cause of the great majority of the people who are poor. Teachers as public intellectuals possess a great power in their hands simply because of the dignified character of their profession. As teachers they are supposed to teach the values of fairness, honesty, and moral uprightness. Armed with these values, teachers acting as one and are united with the broader progressive sectors of society, can tip the balance of forces towards large scale social change. Teachers as pubic intellectuals should refuse the reduction of their profession to mere transmission of pre-defined knowledge created by the bureaucrat capitalist state. Teaching is a subversive act insofar as it debunks the myth propagated by the state. For this issue the Editors would like to thank our contributors who made this issue possible. The generosity of the contributors continues to provide the much needed intellectual resources for our readers. For this volume of Pingkian, we included the critique of mainstream American feminism by Delia Aguilar. In “Occupy Feminism”, Delia D. Aguilar offers a timely critique of mainstream feminism in the west that is already co-opted by capitalism. She suggests that, “Following the examples of feminist activists like Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf, occupied feminism will face head-on the enemy that is corporate greed and militarism (absolutely no room for fuzziness or “purposeful ambiguity” 1 here), at the same time as it imagines, invents, and refashions “a world fit to live in.” she ends her essay by advocating that feminists “must seize the moment. It is time to occupy feminism.” The article of Edgie Francis b. Uyanguren and Glennis s. Uyanguren discuss the social response of the victims of Tropical Storm Ketsana (locally termed as Ondoy) in 2009. The authors argue that, “If basic needs are not addressed by the government, then obviously it could not move forward to more complex requisites of establishing a system that would empower the people and make them truly resilient amidst calamities and hazards.” It therefore criticizes the ineptitude of the government in dealing with disasters. The article is a very good starting point for analyzing the faailure of the US- Aquino regime to respond immediately and approproately to the horrednous devastation brought by the super-typhoon Hyan. ortress in the rice Next, the article of Epifanio de San Juan, Jr., a foremost authority on Philippine literary criticism, “Benjamin Appel’s F : American testimony to the emergence of the Philippine Neocolony,” documents the neglected novel of Benjamin Appel, who served as the chief historian of the U.S. High Commissioner (Paul McNutt) to oversee the granting of independence to the Philippine colony in 1946. San Juan reads that the novel of Appel as providing a “narrative strategy” to provide a picture of “the historic crisis of a system—monopoly-capitalism in its highest stage, imperialism before and neocolonialism after World War 2—that is inevitably dying, while the egalitarian future nourished in its womb, like the palay grains in the bloodied ground, is still struggling to be born.” Next, we also included the article of Tom Talledo, a professor of Sociology University of the Philippines Visayas, “What’s up with Sociology in the Philippines?”, to bring home the idea that sociology has a public character that allows it to stand against the tyranny of power. Tolledo poses a challenge to philippine sociology to become more relevant in the public debates. Finally, we would like to express of gratitude to Prof. Jose Maria Sison, the current Chairperson of International League of People’s Struggle, who alowed us to re-print his Lecture “On the Growing Economic Cooperation between China and Russia.” This piece is a very important analysis of the growing hegemonic conflict between Russia and the China on the one hand, and the declining American Imperialism on the other. Prof. Sison alerts the readers, “The peoples and mass movements fighting imperialism in both developed and
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