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Thousands marched along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City for the 'People's State of the Nation Address'. The march ended in the Batasan road where the rallyists held their program some 300 meters away from the Batasan Complex where President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his first SONA. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

HISTORIC: ‘People’s SONA’ held meters away from Batasan

This is the first time that the rally of progressive groups had no engagement with police authorities, with rallyists holding their own version of the State of the Nation Address only a few hundred meters away from Batasan Complex Monday, July 25.

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President Rodrigo Duterte (Presidential Photographers Division)

Global activists: Duterte’s SONA should tackle peoples’ rights, peace talks

Global activists who met here for the International Conference for Peoples' Rights in the Philippines (ICPRP) said President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) should tackle peoples’ rights and peace talk, among other issues, in what they called concrete programs for the people.

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