KUWENTONG PEYUPS: Lean Alejandro and UP student activism

“The struggle for freedom is the next best thing to actually being free,” said the late UP student leader Leandro Alejandro.

When the University Student Council was re-established in 1981, SAMASA won landslide victories in that election and in several elections after. Lean became USC chairman in 1983. Years later, if asked “Bakit ka ba naging aktibista”, I usually answer back by saying that UP is the perfect place to grow in all aspects, whether it be intellectually, politically, socially in different or opposing spectrum.

Of all the rallies I covered, the dispersal of the May 14,1990 anti-US-Bases rally at the Central Bank was the most memorable. The Great Lean Run is held in honor of the late activist Leandro Alejandro every September to remember him on the day that he was assassinated. | Dennis Gorecho

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