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TULA
Quickly
Join Hands and Prepare
By Honey Pie Maniego
Quickly join
hands and prepare,
sow the seeds of hope and continuous struggle…
We will tell
right to their faces,
“We reject anymore increases; raise teachers’ and
employees’ wages.”
A tuition fee
rollback we shall suggest,
be not afraid, we shall struggle for the best!
Students, teachers,
employees, community, unite!
Let us light the flame of the people’s fight!
Repressive,
colonial and commercialized education we shall denounce--
strengthen our ranks: we call and announce!
So that in the
end, guided by the spirit of truth and justice…
We, as a Filipino people, shall triumph with dignity.
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Honey Pie Maniego is the pseudonym of a former campus journalist
from the University of Perpetual Help System in Binan, Laguna (UPHSL)
who has, since 1997, been researching, writing and publishing various
essays, poems and short stories relevant to the struggle for students’
rights and welfare.
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