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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, 18 April 2005

CEGP calls for an end to human rights violations

The College Editors Guild of the Philippines, alongside freedom-loving Filipinos, demands justice for all slain journalists and victims of political repression and human rights violations.

From 2002, more than 38 journalists have already been killed. At least 115 abductions were recorded since last year. And from January this year, 32 political activists have been killed. Cases of human rights violations affecting 23,252 victims in 91 communities have also been recorded. No less than members, units and henchmen of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and police are implicated in these repressions against journalists, activists and their supporters, and civilian communities.

The campus press likewise suffer harassments from both school administrators and the military. CEGP provincial
chapters report of student writers being warned to distance themselves from peoples issues, or else threatened to be listed on the AFPs Order of Battle.

We have also suffered casualties. On April 5, 2002, our colleague, Benjaline “Beng” Hernandez, then CEGP vice president for Mindanao and a member of Karapatan was murdered, along with her three companions, in Arakan Valley by soldiers of the Philippine Army's 12th Special Forces Company and the 7th Airborne Battalion led by Sgt Antonio Torella. Beng and her companions were conducting a fact-finding mission on the state of human rights there when they were slain.

Official AFP documents, like the powerpoint presentation 'Knowing the Enemy', identifying many legitimate groups, including the CEGP, media institutions, and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) as “communist fronts” confirm the military's coordinated efforts to create a climate of fear and stifle protests gainst the administration's anti-people policies.

The CEGP vehemently condemns these forms of curtailment of civil liberties, especially the killings and harassments against media workers and political activists perpetrated under the Macapagal-Arroyo regime.

We, along with our colleagues in the mainstream media and the Filipino people, demand President Arroyo and concerned government agencies to urgently resolve these threats against basic human dignity. The killings and harassments must immediately be stopped. All policies and measures that curtail civil liberties and human rights must be scrapped. Justice for the victims and families of increasing number of journalists and activists murdered must be served.

Ipaglaban ang karapatan sa pamamahayag!

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Tuesday, 05 April 2005

PRESS STATEMENT RE: JOURNALIST KILLINGS

CEGP slams Arroyo for indifference towards journalist killings

The College Editors Guild of the Philippines strongly condemns the blatant disregard of the Macapagal – Arroyo regime towards the lives and welfare of mainstream journalists, which resulted into the third journalist murder of the year, Tacurong City journalist Marlene Garcia Esperat.

The incapability of the Arroyo regime to protect mainstream journalists, whose lives are constantly under threat because of the powerful people and interests they clash with as they do their job, has resulted into a regime of silent terror masquerading as peace and order. Media serves as a refuge of the people when the state, due to corruption, has failed to serve their interests. Yet, people in the mainstream are prevented from doing their duties under the threat of repression, and even death. As journalists fear for their lives, press freedom is rendered as a right written on paper, but never enjoyed.

Twenty journalists have been slain in 2002 and 2003, and if we follow the trend this year, more or less there will be more than 10 journalists slain by the end of the year. Unless this is stopped and the perpetrators, regardless of their position in society, are brought to justice, President Arroyo will confirm what her so- called terrorists have been saying all along: government policy is anti-people.

We, along with our colleagues in the mainstream press, demand President Arroyo to resolve these threats towards press freedom. Justice, not just for Esparat, but also for the families of increasing number of journalists murdered within the Arroyo regime is imperative. The killing of journalists must stop, and their lives given the value they properly deserve. Unless all of these conditions are fulfilled, President Arroyo risks not just the ire of both the mainstream and the campus press, but also the people the press serves.