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NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

• Jose Cosido
NATIONAL PRESIDENT
(The Catalyst, PUP)
brown_rimbaud@yahoo.com

• Rowie Madula
SECRETARY GENERAL,
(Matanglawin, ADMU)
rowimadula@atenista.com

• Jason Valenzuela
DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL
(The Catalyst, PUP)
JasonValenzuela@gmail.com

• Leo Angelo Nery
VP FOR LUZON
(Matanglawin, ADMU)

• Kristine Marie Musni
VP FOR VISAYAS
(Tug-Ani, UP Cebu)

• Paolo Dumayac
VP FOR MINDANAO
(Atenews, Ateneo De Davao)

NATIONAL SECRETARIAT

• Shineth Fabian Kiram
(The Catalyst, PUP)

• Frederick Dabu
(Manila Collegian, UP Manila)

E-MAIL US
cegpnational@yahoo.com
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The College Editors Guild of the Philippines is an alliance of tertiary campus publications nationwide. Founded on 1931, CEGP is a patriotic and democratic alliance of over 750 student publications nationwide. It is the national center for the advancement of campus press freedom.

CEGP is considered to be the largest, oldest existing, and the only student organization of its kind in the Asia Pacific Region.

An alliance of tertiary student publications.

Membership is open to all tertiary student publications.

It has over 750 student publications as members from more than 500 schools in 68 (out of 78) provinces and cities nationwide.

A patriotic and democratic organization.

It is patriotic. It ardently struggles against foreign domination and control in economy, politics, culture and all spheres of national life.

It is democratic. It upholds and defends the interest and welfare of the Filipino people.

This commitment has kept the CEGP as one of the oldest- existing and widest youth organization in the country.

The national center for the advancement of campus press freedom.

It is steadfast in advancing and protecting the right of every student to seek, receive and impart information to any medium without any interference.

Structure

The biennial National Student Press Congress is the highest policy- making body of the CEGP. It is composed of member publications. It adopts the Two-Year General Program of Action, elects new national officers, accepts new members and adopts positions on issues.

The biannual National Council meeting is the second highest policy- making body composed of elected and appointed local and national leaders.

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Monday, 20 December 2004

ENOUGH!

End All Journalist Killings

November is a dark month for the Philippine Media. This month alone, four journalists have been killed.

The brutal death of Allan Dizon, a photojournalist from Banat News and The Freeman in Cebu City, the 12th this year, and the 61st since the ouster of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986, has stirred skepticism in the government’s effort to end this social malady of indiscriminate killing of journalists. The question of whether the freedom of the press that was restored in 1986, still exist or has long enough been banished reinforces the cloud of social unrest.

The alarming rate of deaths, speaks of how inutile the government has become in the face of this horrendous trend. Not a single conviction has been served by any of the deaths since 1986, creating a 'climate of impunity'. The PNP's directive to allow journalist to carry firearms for self-defense is an acknowledgement of its ineffectiveness to protect the journalists against threats on their lives. It is not a wonder why the people become doubtful of the PNP's ability to protect ordinary citizens when they cannot even solve the heinous crimes committed against prominent media personalities.

The international media is appalled at this brutality, rampant from a supposedly democratic country, and has clamored for justice and vigilance to protect the media, the bastion of the freedom of speech in a democratic society.

The intensified attacks on the media is a reflection of how respect for civil liberties and human rights of have continuously degraded all throughout the years, as cases of human rights violations multiply annually. The broad mass of the Filipino people, in the middle of the worsening crisis, bears the blunt of the suffering.

The alternative media, the campus press, is not exempted from the continuous attacks on the media.

Dubbed during the Marcos regime as the "mosquito press", the campus press has experienced its share of assaults. The silent curtailment of democratic rights inside school campuses has been raging on even after the downfall of Marcos.

In April 2002, agents of the military under false charges summarily executed Benjaline “Beng” Hernandez from the Atenews of Ateneo de Davao, then the Vice President for Mindanao of the organization. With no convictions, the case remains unresolved.

At present, the ratification of the Campus Journalism Act of 1991 is being used by school administrators to silence and shut down campus publications all over the country. The padlocking of the University of San Carlos’ Official Student Publication Today’s Carolinian and the Voice of Talamban is an unfortunate fate suffered by numerous student publications in the country.

The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP), an alliance of student publications nationwide, is one with the people and the Philippine media in condemning the physical brutalities and human rights violations committed against journalists, and calls for the immediate and concrete action from the authorities to put an end to all the killings.

JUSTICE FOR ALLAN DIZON!!!
JUSTICE FOR SLAIN JOURNALISTS!!!
JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE!!!