UP Journalism Club - UPJC

03/11/2025

02/11/2025

OPISYAL NA PAHAYAG NG MGA KONSEHO AT ORGANISASYON NG KOLEHIYO NG MIDYA AT KOMUNIKASYON

Mariing ipinahahayag ng Rise for Education - Kolehiyo ng Midya at Komunikasyon kasama ang mga konseho at organisasyon sa kolehiyo ang pagkadismaya at pagtutol sa desisyon ng administrasyon na hindi ipatupad ang hinihinging Wellness Break ng mga estudyante ng UP Diliman.

Ang hindi pag-apruba ni Chancellor Vistan sa Wellness Break na pinetisyon ng mahigit 7,000 estudyante ay isang manipestasyon ng kabiguan ng pamantasan na tumugon sa makataong panawagan ng sarili nitong mga mag-aaral. Sa mga nagdaang linggo, tumataas ang bilang ng mga mag-aaral na nagkakasakit mula sa trangkaso, flu-like symptoms, at iba pang karamdaman na nagiging sanhi ng madalas na pagliban sa klase. Kasabay nito, marami ring estudyante ang naghahayag ng pangangailangan para sa mental health support at pahinga matapos ang mabigat na midterms at kawalan ng reading break. Sa Kolehiyo ng Midya at Komunikasyon pa lamang, mahigit 300 estudyante ang lumagda sa petisyon bilang patunay na marami ang nangangailangan ng pagkakataong makapagpahinga at makabawi sa mga akademikong gawain.

Ang naging tugon ng administrasyon ay sumasalamin sa kalakaran ng isang sistemang labis na nakatuon sa produksyon at output sa halip na sa kapakanan ng mga mag-aaral. Sa ganitong sistema, napipilitang pumasok ang mga estudyante kahit may karamdaman o labis na pagod dahil sa takot na maiwan sa mga akademikong rekisito. Ang ganitong kalagayan ay hindi lamang nakaaapekto sa pisikal na kalusugan kundi pati sa mental well-being at kalidad ng pagkatuto ng mga Iskolar ng Bayan.

Ang patuloy na pagbalewala sa panawagan para sa pahinga ay nagpapakita ng kakulangan ng malasakit sa tunay na kalagayan ng mga estudyante. Ipinapakita nito kung paanong mas binibigyang-diin ng sistemang pang-edukasyon ang kahusayan sa output kaysa sa kabuuang kagalingan ng tao.

Dahil dito, nananawagan ang R4E-CMC kasama ang mga koseho at organisasyon sa kolehiyo sa administrasyon ng UP Diliman na muling pag-isipan at agarang ipatupad ang Wellness Break. Hindi dapat nagmamakaawa ang mga estudyante para maranasan ang pahinga na kinakailangan nila. Ito ay mahalagang bahagi ng pagpapanatili ng kalusugan at produktibong pagkatuto.

Bilang mga Alagad ng Midya at mga Iskolar ng Bayan, hangad naming makapaglingkod sa sambayanan nang buong husay at dangal. Ngunit hindi ito maisasakatuparan kung kami mismo ay labis na napapagod, nagkakasakit, at hindi nabibigyan ng pagkakataong magpahinga.

02/11/2025

[Official Statement of the UP Journalism Club on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists]

The killings never stopped. What changed was how quickly we spoke—then how quickly we moved on.

Every year, journalists are threatened, attacked, or killed, and most of their cases are left without justice. UNESCO reports that around 85 percent of journalist killings since 2006 remain unsolved, a number that speaks to how deeply impunity has taken root. Just two years ago, UNESCO recorded 162 journalists killed in the line of duty over a two-year period. In the Philippines, the country ranks ninth in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2024 Global Impunity Index, with 18 journalist murders still unresolved between September 2014 and August 2024.

These are not just numbers. They are stories left unfinished, families still waiting for justice, and truths that never made it to print.

We have learned to live with fear as background noise, with red-tagging, intimidation, and quiet warnings that come with telling the wrong story. Promises are made after every killing, but accountability never arrives. What remains is a pattern: a country where the truth can be gunned down and those who pull the trigger are never named.

The UP Journalism Club refuses to accept this as normal. We stand with journalists who keep writing even when it is dangerous, who keep showing up when others look away. Press freedom is not an abstract ideal; it is the daily choice to tell the truth when it is easier not to.

To end impunity is to remember every name, every story, every silence that should not have been. Justice for journalists is justice for everyone who still believes the truth matters.

End impunity. Defend the press. Remember the fallen.

01/11/2025

In a time when impunity and corruption persist, we continue to raise our pens for truth, justice, and a free and liberating press.

As we commemorate the 16th year since the Ampatuan Massacre, UJP UP Diliman, together with the UP Journalism Club - UPJC, UP Solidaridad, the UP College of Mass Communication Student Council, and the UP Diliman University Student Council, launch BREAK FREE 2025 with the theme: “Challenging Unchecked Power: The Role of Media in Holding Power to Account.”

This month-long campaign confronts the culture of impunity against journalists and promotes media literacy across the Philippines.

Join us in our activities:

📸 NOVEMBER 3-17: Mulat Maninipat (MuMa) & Mobile Journalism (MoJo) Competition

🛡️ NOVEMBER 21: Media Safety Training and Local Protest Action

🖼️ NOVEMBER 21-29: Photo Exhibit

🏆NOVEMBER 29: Awarding Ceremony

31/10/2025

In the face of endless greed and corruption, the tools to challenge injustice fit in the palm of your hand.

From your screens, are you ready to speak truth to power? 🗣️🤳

Coming 11.03.25.

31/10/2025

23/10/2025

The UP Journalism Club condemns the use of subpoenas as a tool of state intimidation against student leaders and campus journalists.

Legal processes must never be used to harass, silence criticism, or punish those who document truth and dissent. We stand firmly against any attempt to weaponize the law to suppress press freedom, academic freedom, and the right to organize.

Explainer by Pajo Albano & Helena Cos
Illustration by Aaron Oriño

17/10/2025

TINGNAN: Mahigit 2,500 estudyante, g**o, at kawani ng UP Diliman ang lumahok sa walkout bilang bahagi ng “National Youth Day of Action Against Corruption” upang ipanawagan ang pananagutan at wakasan ang talamak na korapsyon sa bansa, Oktubre 17.

Nagsagawa muna ng mga localized protest ang iba’t ibang kolehiyo bago magtipon sa Quezon Hall para sa university-wide program.

Ayon kay 42nd Student Regent Dexter Clemente, layunin ng kilos-protesta na ipanawagan ang pagwawakas ng burukratikong kapitalismo at korapsyon, at panagutin sina Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at iba pang opisyal na umano’y sangkot sa katiwalian.

“Sa mga pamantasan na nagwawalkout o magkikilos protesta, iisa lang ang bitbit, panagutin ang mga kurakot starting from the top kina Marcos Jr. hanggang sa mga sangkot na gusto natin mawala sa puwesto,” saad ni Clemente.

Ipinagpatuloy ng delegasyon ng UP Diliman ang kanilang mobilisasyon sa Mendiola upang makiisa sa mas malawak na pambansang protesta kasama ang iba pang kabataan at sektor.

via Ails Macabbabad/UP Journalism Club
📸:Joshua Español, Kashupea Guererro, Ails Macabbabad, Alli Malantic

13/10/2025

LOOK: The UP Act Against Corruption Network (UP ACTION) held its All Leaders Meeting earlier today at Alcantara Hall, Student Union Building, announcing a university-wide walkout on Oct. 17, 2025, as part of the “National Youth Day of Action.”

Led by one of its convenors, University Student Council Chair Joaquin Buenaflor, the meeting was attended by multiple student councils, organizations and formations within UP Diliman. Representatives from the UP Open University Student Council and the Office of the Faculty Regent were also present.

The gathering initiated plans for the university-wide walkout amid continuing calls against corruption in the Marcos Jr. administration. UP ACTION also unveiled its unity manifesto, outlining five demands as the general call for the protest.

The mobilization on Oct. 17 will begin at 10 a.m. in localized areas across the campus and converge at Quezon Hall at 11:30 a.m. The delegation will then proceed to Mendiola Avenue alongside other universities at 2 p.m.

via JN Nuñez/UP Journalism Club

06/10/2025

LOOK: Joy and laughter filled the room as the UP Journalism Club (UPJC) held its much-awaited Acquaintance Party at the Student Union Building (SUB) on Monday, October 6, organized by its applicant batch, Batch 25A AbanTEAM.

Members and applicants alike made time in their busy schedules to unwind and enjoy each other’s company, marking the midpoint of the Batch 25A application process.

via Sam Escario/UP Journalism Club

18/05/2025

COMMENTARY: Abstain, in all its complexity, is not a threat to student democracy. It is proof that students still care enough to reject what they feel is not good enough.

The real threat comes when that care is dismissed—when that refusal to settle is met not with introspection, but with silence.

If we want a council that truly represents the student body, we must first respect the many ways it chooses to speak