So I just found out something today and It shocked me to death. I am an iskolar ng bayan and so to speak a non partisan in terms of political orgs. You could say that I still don't have that activist in me working, but you're wrong. I am an activist, deep inside I know I am. It's just that I cannot consider being part of a political org as an outlet.
As far as I am concerned there are two political orgs that strikes me the most. Let's just sort of call 'em the "elitists" and the "extremists". On first thought I completely understood how different they were and that none of them is better than the other, both have extreme ups and downs. But recently I got a news from a friend. Let's just say he belongs to a "tribunal" who leads the school. A particular event was threatened to be a no go for this year because of money issues and all. So here comes a sponsor, the sponsor ready with the money received a no go signal from the ones leading the "tribunal" who are mostly partisans of the "extremists". And here is where my rant starts.
I thought the school needed that money to have a wonderful event and THEY rejected a sponsorship just because that certain sponsor was involved in some humanitarian or so to speak an activist-provoking issue. I don't know with the others but I feel really dismayed. I know we're from an activist school but shouldn't we consider those who are not here to STRIKE? Isn't that event more like a generalized event rather than personal? Isn't it enough for us to have a hot theme and issues to be tackled? Do we really need to reject help from sponsors who need nothing but a thank you?
I just can't seem to understand it the way THEY do.
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