Alliance-Philippines

November 23, 2009

AJLPP CONDEMNS POLICE VIOLENCE : SUPPORTS CALIFORNIA STUDENTS FIGHT BACK AGAINSTS UC SYSTEM TUITION HIKES

Los Angeles— “ TO REBEL IS JUSTIFIED”

The Alliance-Philippines or AJLPP based in the United States militantly condemns the unwanted police violence against UC students in different UC campuses.

We –in the AJLPP ,again reiterate wholeheartedly supports the California-wide walk-out of students and is militantly in solidarity with the stud entry and campus academic and working people in rising up against unjust budget-cuts and tuition fee hikes recently imposed by the UC Board of regents.

The Alliance also congratulates the militant action of the UCLA students who defied police brutality and violence. They acted and occupied the Chancellors Office after they decided to increase the student’s fees by 32% or more than $ 2,000 next fall.

Filipino-American Students at the Forefront

The AJLPP welcomes the high tide of student activism that started with campus walkout and other mass actions all over California.

The AJLPP is also glad at the forefront of these struggles are Filipino American organizations like Samahang Pilipino in UCLA. PASK and BARKADA in CAL POLY Pomona , Alyansa ng mga Kababayan in Irvine, Katipunan in Riverside, the PAC in Long Beach and other mass organizations of Asian nationalities.

The UC Board of Regents decision is always at expense of the students and the working people and will exact a heavy burden to all. As the economic crisis developed, the California student has pointed out that the state which number 48 in educational priotirities have no right to impose bigger fees and education cuts when it is the number 1 in prison building in the whole United States.

This only goes to shows that the twisted priorities of rotten capitalism are for maximum profits and not for people’s needs. They have trillions for war and not for education. Therefore as the saying goes, “to rebel is justified”.

For California students this is the time for erecting the barricades while continuing to study the books!

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The above is not from the UCLA protests. The above photo shows a building in downtown LA no where near Westwood or any of the off campus UCLA protests. Chancellors office was never occupied at any time last week. Campbell hall is the building that was occupied by students.

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