More than a dozen members of the National Union of Students of the Philippines conducted a lightning rally inside the session hall of Batasang Pambansa to protest the proposed budget cuts of the Aquino administration against state universities and colleges. Outside Batasan, dozens more held a rally to urge Congress to reject the budget cuts, not only on state schools, but on other social services of the government, and rechannel non-productive yet monstrous spending on the military, on debt-servicing and on patronage dole-outs.