18/08/2026
⚠️ 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧: 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝗦 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗟!
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗼, 𝗽𝗮𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗻𝗮 𝗻𝗴𝗮 𝗯𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗦 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗶𝘆𝗮𝗻? 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘆 𝗻𝗮 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁...
The CS Freshie Month has been a staple in the flagship events of CSSC to welcome the new ‘Siyentista ng Bayan’ and help them prepare on their stay on the College of Science.
However, due to the continuous heavy rainfall, two of the events—CS Freshie Tour and Freshie Welcome Assembly—have already been cancelled and postponed, respectively.
For Filipinos, typhoons and the rainy season are nothing new. The habagat season lasts from May to October, and on top of this, the Philippines sits on the Pacific ring of fire and the western Pacific typhoon belt, which makes it a disaster-prone country.
Despite this, city roads continue to be swamped by floodwaters every year, public schools continue to serve as evacuation centers, class suspensions cause the education system to stagnate, and flood control and other typhoon-resilient projects remain unfinished.
After more than two weeks of persistent heavy rains, the death toll already spiked up to two digits and millions of Filipinos are still heavily affected by it.
Faced with these consequences, how did our government respond to it?
Students and parents carry the inconvenience of delayed suspension of classes from different local government units. Some wake up early and travel hours to attend face-to-face classes before LGUs announce the suspension. This is a blatant example of the government's inadequate disaster response and lack of urgency, which wastes students' time and energy and also puts their health at risk.
Due to several days of suspended classes, the education system remains stagnant. Students are now left with insufficient time to learn inside their classrooms as a result of these suspensions. Despite this, the government has done nothing but underfund the education sector, further impairing our students with inadequate study materials and subpar classrooms.
The transition to renewable energy does not only uproot the communities where the large-scale projects will be built, but is also detrimental to the environment. One example is the MTerra Solar Project that will flatten 3,500 hectares of productive farmland owned by farmers from Nueva Ecija and Bulacan. Another example is the massive tree-cutting along Quirino Avenue for the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEx), which will undoubtedly result in significant soil erosion and quick flooding. Land-use conversion at the expense of displaced communities and the environment under the pretense of ‘urbanization’ and ‘clean energy transition’ will never be regarded as a ‘just’ transition.
The Philippine government continues to enter into agreements with the imperialist United States through initiatives like the Pax Silica, which are clearly harmful to our environment. It is obvious that Pax Silica is yet another imperialist strategy used by the US to exhaust our natural resources and level our mountains and farmlands for their own interests—and our government is complicit.
While the Filipinos drown in torrential rains, the government has done nothing, period.
Instead of helping us in recovering from these disasters, they continue to plunge us into poverty and despair, leaving us on our own feet, normalizing resiliency instead of accountability. Their ‘out-of-touch’ remarks show how less of a priority the Filipino people are to them—they don’t care.
As you may have noticed, this post was nothing about the CS Freshie Month at all.
As Siyentista ng Bayan, we must be vigilant, not only on how these disasters move, but also with how our reactionary government respond to its effects
We have the greater responsibility of monitoring the budget for education, defending our environment, and resisting tyranny and imperialism.
