Deformed chairs, militarization

Tablet chairs ... two rows of school chairs in various stages of disrepair and deformity line the alley between the buildings of the College of Mass Communications (CMC) at UP Diliman, Quezon City.

They don't utter a word but their sight begs for questions, rather, answers.

 A tarpaulin streamer at the entrance of the graduate school building screams "CONDEMNED" and another in red at the gate facing the road decries the commercialization and corporatization of UP and other state-run schools.

Somebody though was kind enough to explain that a group of activists, artists and educators contrived of the actor-less pantomime to protest not only against government's criminal neglect for the education of its young, but its utter depravity to hand over the Armed Forces -- who are armed, fed, housed and paid for by the people -- into the hands of foreign mining interests for the singular purpose of clearing vast lands of Mindanao for mining operations which includes, but is not limited to, indiscriminate bombings of farmers', mostly Lumad lands, intimidating, arresting sans warrants, torturing and even summary killing of indigenous people resistiing encroachments by foreigning mining companies.

 The decrepit chairs pointed to the good habit of the military and paramilitary of turning public schools into quarters in the mineral-rich mountain ranges of Bukidnon, Agusan, Surigao and Davao, disrupting classes and damaging school properties in the process -- as broken chairs and tables suggest.

These are happening under the watch of the Tuwid na Landas cabal of BS Aquino III. 

 The BS Aquino III administration would rather advance the interests of foreign mining companies instead of the rights of its young to education that is free, scientific and patriotic.

 If there is one lesson the young boys and girls of the indigenous peoples of Mindanao draw from the militarization of their lands, it is the fact that their government -- the administration of BS Aquino III -- considers them enemy that they have little option left but respond in kind at such official chivalry.

 The Pnoy Aquino government is a puppet of foreign interests and that alone is enough to cry: Out Now, Pnoy!

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