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    The document is a manifesto urging Senators to pass bills that would institutionalize the UP-DND Accord by including its provisions in the UP Charter. It discusses how the unilateral abrogation of the accord has led to increased harassment, intimidation, and red-tagging of UP students and faculty. It calls on Senate committees and UP alumni Senators to defend academic freedom by passing bills that would strengthen the UP-DND Accord and protect the security of the UP community.

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    The document is a manifesto urging Senators to pass bills that would institutionalize the UP-DND Accord by including its provisions in the UP Charter. It discusses how the unilateral abrogation of the accord has led to increased harassment, intimidation, and red-tagging of UP students and faculty. It calls on Senate committees and UP alumni Senators to defend academic freedom by passing bills that would strengthen the UP-DND Accord and protect the security of the UP community.

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    MANIFESTO URGING SENATORS TO PASS THE BILLS THAT SEEK TO

    INSTITUTIONALIZE THE UP-DND ACCORD AS SENATE OPENS THIS JAN 17

    We are #DefendUP, a campaign network for all efforts and initiatives of the UP Community –
    students, teachers, staff, alumni, community members – to uphold and defend academic
    freedom and human rights for the university and the nation. We share the common principle that
    UP is and must remain a safe space for free thought, expression, criticism and dissent. We are
    united in upholding the 1989 UP-DND accord and demanding its reinstatement to protect
    academic freedom while combating all violations of rights and freedoms of the community,
    especially by state forces.

    January 18, 2021 marks the day of the unilateral abrogation of the UP - DND Accord. An entire
    year has passed since members of the UP Community have collectively experienced
    state-enforced attacks. Harassment, intimidation, and red-tagging has worsened, moreso amid
    the militaristic response of the administration to address the pandemic.

    The unilateral abrogation of the UP-DND Accord entailed various effects on the UP Community.
    Threats are evident in limiting the exercise of academic freedom and continuous red-tagging of
    state machinery in attempts to silence the critics of the government. Several cases of
    harassment, intimidation, red-tagging, and campus incursions by the police and military were
    seen especially at the onset of abrogation of the accord. The absence of the accord intensified
    the threats to the security of students and leaders of the academic community.

    As Senate will be resuming its sessions this January 17, we urge the Committee on Higher,
    Technical and Vocational Education and our duly elected Senators to immediately pass four
    bills that seek to institutionalize and strengthen the provisions of the UP-DND Accord by
    inserting them into the UP Charter – specifically HBN 10171, SBN 2002, SBN 2014, and SBN
    2035.

    The UP Community calls and urges UP alumni Senators Franklin Drilon, Dick Gordon,
    Francis Pangilinan, Miguel Zubiri, Sonny Angara, Nancy Binay, Pia Cayetano,
    Koko Pimentel, and Cynthia Villar to stand with the UP community and defend the very
    lifeblood of the university - academic freedom.

    As legislators and committee members, whose primary unity lies in advancing the sanctity of
    educational institutions, it is imperative that we spearhead measures to protect educational
    spaces for the welfare of the entire community and to carry out our firm position that universities
    must uphold academic freedom. As the premier national university of the country, it is necessary
    that UP leads in having firm institutional safeguards as it is a crucial step for nation building and
    institutionalizing campus security measures.

    We continue to stand our ground. Defend UP, Defend Academic Freedom!

    #UpholdUPDNDAccord
    #DefendUP
    #DefendAcademicFreedom

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