Trillion Peso March: Rising Flood of People, Not Ghosts, but Real - BusinessWorld Online

Trillion Peso March: Rising flood of people, not ghosts, but real - BusinessWorld Online

No, what is unfolding day after day toward the Sept. 21 Martsa ng Bayan (March of the Nation) is not, to borrow Shakespeare’s words, “a walking shadow… a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.” Neither is it “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” What the nation is seeing take shape is no mere spectacle, no passing fit of political theater. It is the gathering respons…

TRILLION PESO MARCH: City police vow protesters’ safety, rights protection

ILOILO City – Thousands are expected to pour into the streets on September 21 for the Trillion Peso March against corruption and for marking the anniversary of the declaration of martial law back in 1972, and the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) is bracing for the surge — promising to secure the protest while upholding […]