During the campaign period, despite losing some hours of campaigning in campus, we kept ourselves involved in the brewing movements and the growing calls for the resignation or ouster of President Arroyo through the various marches and mobilizations that took place.
February 22. The entire day, aside from delivering the usual campaign line in the rooms, we invited people to the march around the academic oval in support of Jun Lozada who was to arrive that afternoon in the UP College of Law. By afternoon almost five hundred students joined our bulk behind the law students. By the time the march ended at Malcolm Hall, the crowd had swelled to around a thousand.
February 23. Together with Youth ACT Now, we held another protest march in Quezon Hall which was exclusively covered by Ms. Korina Sanchez of ABS-CBN. Prior to the march, I was also interviewed by Zen Hernandez in Vinzons Hall for a story regarding the ouster campaign on the internet.
Later that afternoon, we proceeded to the Church of the Risen Lord, still in UP, for an interfaith candle-lighting protest, still with regards to the corruption scandal hounding the administration of President Arroyo.
For the entire two week period of campaign, most of us candidates, and our campaign managers, stayed at the campaign headquarters where we would retire to at midnight (after long and heated dormitory assemblies), sleep for three hours (or less!), until we wake early enough to prepare and go to school and campaign at the 7 AM classes. That was the routine for two weeks.
law student, leftist, national democratic, film school graduate, photography hobbyist