People’s SONA protest
I went to my first State of the Nation counter rally last Monday. The campus chancellor apparently suspended classes in the university the previous night so I thought there wouldn’t be a big delegation of UP students to the People’s SONA rally of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN). It turned out otherwise.
By the way, isn’t so insulting how congressmen and congresswomen together with their families turn the State of the Nation Address of the President into such an extravagant pageant of expensive jewelries and gowns. Similarly disgusting is how some publishers and news networks feature our elite’s rude display of ostentation in an event that’s supposed to lay out the “state of the nation”.
Also, must we be so gullible again and again? The President’s supporters have been using the same apologetics and rhetorics over and over again. It’s like they’re forever trying to make people hope and dream for national progress and prosperity that will never realize in such a crooked and corrupt system.
View photos from the People’s SONA rally here
I was there. And I even made it to your pictures.
Im the one below the STAND UP banner, with cap in a pink shirt with an ID holder and red bag. Actually I was delighted to see BIKOY in person. 
I did not come from UP, im from another university but was invited over by a friend to support the rally.
The SONA Gag Show is funny.
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hi…its my first time to visit here. 2007-SONA of the president is still consistent. what i mean is, there is no changes happen, there are similarity of her SONA to her past SONA, i think walang patutunguhan ang ating bansa kung puro lang siyang dak-dak. a president must be responsible enough hindi yung personal interest lang ang dapat niyang atupagin. kailangan kumilos siya para sa ika-uunlad ng ating bansa. if she really want our country be a competitive one.
In all fairness to GMA.. I believe she has results and she’s very hands-on although it’s really evident that her efforts aren’t enough.
But to say that the Philippines’s gonna reach its 1st world status by 2020? She’s waaaay daydreaming. Was she drunk during her SONA?