Students from Ateneo de Davao University gathered at Freedom Park as they joined the Million People March Davao to Rizal Park. The AdDU Samahan Central Board led the call to students to wear black to protest the stealing of people’s money (davaotoday.com photo by Mart Sambalud)
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Fr. Tabora, who spoke during the rally, said “we deserve nothing but the absolute truth from our leaders in government. How are public
funds being spent? Napoles has brought the “decaying rat” from the stinking closet into the open. She has exposed the dishonor in the pomp and ritual of the ’honorables’.”
Nuns from the Sisters’ Association in Mindanao joined the zumba dance sequence to shake off the pork during the Million People March Davao. Some 3,000 people joined the ‘festive’ protests marked with songs, speeches and dance. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
A real pig gets locked up during Monday’s Million People March to symbolize the people’s rage against the pork barrel system or Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of Congress which has been exposed to cases of corruption. (davaotoday.com photo by Jandy Ken Lizondra)
Representatives of academe, church, doctors and journalists led protesters in Million People March Davao to continue various campaigns for the abolition of PDAF and accountability of public officials on government spending. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
