The Trillion Peso March movement will launch its weekly Friday protests against corruption on October 10 as part of the buildup for the November 30 nationwide rally.
The launch will feature simultaneous actions in schools, offices, parishes, and various community hubs.
Activities will include noise barrage, candle lighting and protests in designated circles and spots. A mass will also be held at Edsa Shrine and other planned circles in the city centers.
Organizers urged participants to bring candles, placards and noise-making objects such as whistles, horns, pots, and pans.
The Trillion Peso March, spearheaded by the Church Leaders Council for National Transformation and backed by over 80 civil groups, is described by organizers as a campaign to heighten the people’s moral struggle against corruption.
‘Join us in daily acts of solidarity: Wear a white ribbon. Put a white flag in your house, car, and churches. Toll the bells and sound a noise barrage, light candles at 8:00 p.m., and recite the National Day of Prayer and Public Repentance,’ said the Trillion Peso March Movement organizers on their Facebook post last October 7.
The November 30 rally, a commemoration on Bonifacio Day, is expected to be the culmination of the movement’s series of actions. One hundred groups are expected to attend the gathering.
Meanwhile, in a previous interview with INQUIRER.net, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan chair Teodoro ‘Teddy’ Casiño said that there were ongoing plans for another massive protest against corruption to be held this October.
‘There are suggestions that aside from the one on November 30, another big centralized rally should also be held this month,’ said Casiño.
‘So these are the things that are being discussed now. The various sectors are also preparing their own mass actions, which we are encouraging because of what we are seeing,’ said Casiño.