The Center for Nationalist Studies is a student organization based at the Univesity of the Philippines at Diliman.

Formed in 1982, the Center has constantly and actively defended and advocated the rights and welfare of students and the people. It provided the machinery for sustained education programs and information campaigns; the cornerstone of its devotion to promote and develop nationalist consciousness and action among the university's studentry.

Launched Labor Day 1998, .cns extends the Center's its reach into the fronteirs of the Information Highway.

.cns hopes to serve as a venue for Filipino students and youths to tap into important information concerning issues and struggles facing the studentry, youth, and the people in general; an on-line venue for interaction and discussion.

Through .cns, the Center also offer students around the globe a hand of solidarity and friendship. Students have always been at the forefront of struggles for genuine systemic change, ever vigilant, militant and critical. .cns salutes the world's patriotic students and youths in struggle.

We'd often be updating this page as breaking news, issues and campaigns reach our desk. So please come back to check us out once in a while.

SERVE THE PEOPLE!

LEARN, SERVE, STRUGGLE!

Read the VFA Document at our Features page, or
link to other sources for info about the issue:

Junk Visiting Forces Agreement Movement (Junk VFA)
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN)
Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights (KARAPATAN)
College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP)
September 16 Movement (S16)

Also try our Links and E-links page.

Join the discussion!
Write us at cns.dg.room@eudoramail.com .

the Forum Hall

The CNS Forum Hall is the fully interactive page of the CNS homepage, .cns. It contains chatrooms, message post boards, and many more; it's the D.G. Room and the the Campaigns Billboard rolled into one convenient, fast and easy system.

the D.G. Room

"DG" stands for discussion groups. This is the Center's more egalitarian version of a classroom session, with a facilitator encouraging objective and critical thought for an active and in-depth discussion of the issue. On-line, you can post your opinions, positions, arguments, rebuttals, questions and answers on current issue featured in the DG Room. ~ cns.dg.room@eudoramail.com

the Campaigns Billboard

For those who'd like to help out in the campaigns and struggles that the Center is currently involved in, we've posted the issues and links to other sites for easier reference. If you have or know of campaigns or struggles you may want us to post, send them in too. Involve yourself! ~ cns.campaigns@eudoramail.com

the RP-US VFA Document

The hottest issue in the Philippines currently is the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and America. It's also the topic of discussion in our D.G Room and Forum Hall, so read the document and join the action.