{"id":6176,"date":"2023-08-18T21:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csspsinag.wordpress.com\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2023-08-18T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:37:29","slug":"unfazed-in-the-line-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/2023\/08\/18\/unfazed-in-the-line-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfazed in the line of fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Peter Angelo (JPEG) B. Garcia is the UP Los Ba\u00f1os nominee for the 40th Student Regent selection.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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As the chairperson of UPLB\u2019s Youth Advocates for Peace with Justice,<\/em> Garcia is no stranger to the state\u2019s attacks: whether being red-tagged himself after human rights organizations in the Southern Tagalog Region exposed the state\u2019s planned bombings or asserting the Bigkisan Caravan\u2019s right to assert the region\u2019s demands, Garcia has been, as his vision paper suggests, \u201cunfazed in the line of fire.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garcia\u2019s vision of the University\u2019s future as student regent is anchored on what he sees as a crucial role for the university: as a \u201chaven and catalyst for attaining a just and lasting peace.\u201d He said that amidst the crisis currently faced by the university and the broader masses, UP must actively assert our rights and liberties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His general plans of action consist of proposals that aim to contribute to the protection of the University\u2019s democracy and welfare of its constituents; such as a campaign for sufficient fund allocation, strengthened opposition to budget cuts, the ensured institutionalization of the Safe Haven Resolution, and the continued condemnation of Mandatory ROTC. As a human rights defender, Garcia gave particular importance to defending the university as a whole \u2013 not just students, but faculty, REPS, workers, residents, indigenous groups, vendors, and other stakeholders across the system as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To amplify the demands of the student body for genuine student representation, Garcia promises to strengthen the OSR as the leading student institution to coordinate with and establish effective unities that stand for progressive administrations as well as pro-people, with an agenda to craft a system-wide list of general student demands\u2013to ensure that all student needs are heard for proper rectification and remedy that leads to solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garcia says that with attacks against the youth on the unit, system, and national levels, the Office of the Student Regent must remain unfazed as well, keeping the university a safe haven for all that it stands for. Only then, says Garcia, can UP fulfill its role in the pursuit of a just and lasting peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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