“President Duterte, let your fellow Mindanawons march with you in your first SONA. Allow us to hold a rally near Batasan.”
Category: State of the Nation Address
Aquino’s Final SONA | ‘Our art is our voice’
Artists bring their art, songs and dance to depict the people’s lives at the SONA protest.
Aquino’s Final SONA | ‘Tama na, tapusin na’ – protesters call
“This run down MRT is like Noynoy Aquino’s rotten administration, which should’ve long been replaced — useless, unreliable, and a danger to people’s lives.”
UP professors, progressive groups give Aquino failing grade
“The Aquino administration has an incurable ineptitude.”
Progressives’ pre-SONA advice to Aquino: ‘Quit lying’
“If he will again sugarcoat and put rhetoric in his SONA, surely it will have no effect because the public is already enlightened how a ‘disaster president’ he was.”
‘Lies,’ is what progressive groups expect to hear from Aquino during SONA
“Unlike the traditional fiesta, where hospitality, generosity, and goodwill are encouraged among the whole community, Aquino’s banquet is depicted [in the effigy] as a lavishly sumptuous feast for a small circle of guests as the people wait for crumbs falling from the table.”
Satur C. Ocampo | Looking for answers
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Where’s the vision?” “Where’s the road map?” These have been the common reactions to P-Noy’s second state of the nation address last Monday. The tones have ranged from disappointment on the part of those supportive of his government, to skepticism and cynicism on the…
Aquino’s SONA does not reflect people’s plight in Southern Tagalog–Bayan-ST
By CHRISTIAN REY BUENDIA Bulatlat.com President Benigno Aquino III’s second State of the Nation Address (Sona) delivered last July 25 may have exceeded 6,000 words, yet his speech was “merely filled with convenient lies and half-truths, useless embellishments and hollow rhetoric,” Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Tagalog (Bayan-ST) Secretary-General Leo XL Fuentes said. He added that Aquino’s…
Sona 2011 has little to report, less to look forward to – Ibon
ByBulatlat.com Main Story: Aquino’s Sona, all form, no substance – Bayan Sidebar: Aquino hit for embracing paramilitary group in Cordillera “Wang-wang Sona: too much noise, too little substance” – KMU MANILA – In just its second state of the nation address (Sona), the Aquino presidency has confirmed that it cannot be upfront about the real…
“Wang-wang Sona: too much noise, too little substance” – KMU
By Bulatlat.com Main Story: Aquino’s Sona, all form, no substance – Bayan Sidebar: Aquino hit for embracing paramilitary group in Cordillera Sona 2011 has little to report, less to look forward to – Ibon MANILA – “There’s one thing in common between this year’s Sona and wang-wang, its favorite object: they both send out too…
Aquino’s Sona: All for show, no substance – Bayan

By MARYA SALAMAT
There were many important things to the Filipino people that were missing in Aquino’s Sona, most speakers in the Sona rally said.
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Aquino hit for embracing paramilitary group in Cordillera
“Wang-wang Sona: too much noise, too little substance” – KMU
Sona 2011 has little to report, less to look forward to – Ibon