Unlike her previous State of the Nation Addresses, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s fifth one will be delivered before a nation that is largely no longer interested in what she will have to say, and is now mostly engaged in actions to push for her removal from office. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com On July 25, President…
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Students Hold Classes in Street, Join SONA Protest
High school student Xaviera Vasquez, 15, was among the thousands of students who were made to attend by their schools the July 16 pro-Arroyo rally in Rizal Park, Manila. Come Monday, the day of the State of the Nation address of the president, Vasquez will be among the thousands of students nationwide protesting in the…