A mass action against corruption for the month of October is currently being discussed, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) chair Teodoro ‘Teddy’ Casiño revealed on Monday afternoon.
‘There are suggestions that aside from the one on November 30, that this month [October] there should be a big centralized rally. So these are the things that are being discussed now. The various sectors are also preparing their own big actions, so we are encouraging that because of what we are seeing,’ Casiño said in an interview with the Inquirer.
The Bayan chair also urged local communities to hold their own mass actions, highlighting the importance of ‘public pressure’ to continue the ongoing clamor against corruption.
‘We are encouraging the various communities including schools and churches, the homeowners associations to organize their own [mass] actions. Let’s start with local actions, and then let’s make them bigger and bigger,’ Casiño pressed.
Furthermore, the Bayan chair also revealed that suggestions have been made to ‘delay paying of taxes’ or even the ‘non-paying of taxes,’ but these moves, Casiño admitted, are still being studied.
Bayan is among the many groups organizing and encouraging anti-corruption protests by various groups and sectors.
In an earlier statement, Bayan said that it is ‘only through the people’s collective action that we can exact accountability from corrupt officials.’
Church Leaders Council for National Transformation, the organizers of the September 21 ‘Trillion Peso March’ anti-corruption protest, announced that it will hold another rally on November 30 in commemoration of Bonifacio Day.
According to the religious group, 100 groups are expected to attend the November rally.
A series of Black Friday protests and academic walkouts have also commenced since the investigations into the supposed flood control anomalies began in September.