26/09/2025
It's been almost a week since the Trillion Peso March - and I hope we all feel angry and compassionate towards a demonstration and the aftermath that aimed and proactively continues to respond to corruption. There is no such thing as a peaceful protest, ignorance is bliss if you feel at peace with everything that continues to go on in the senate.
Animal welfare is directly tied to Human welfare. Our government is responsible for the laws enforced, and the people we vote for are also responsible to reinforce it. There was enough room to fill the streets of Manila, because we all wanted one thing - a better country. And if the biggest room in the world is improvement, then we definitely are deserving of the best.
Check your privilege. Can you see the reality we are in and the many animals that are also victims to this corrupt nation?
The massacres and mass starvation in pounds,
the lack of pet education seminars,
our battle with rabies,
full shelters,
negligent owners,
online animal cruelty videos,
harmful traditions,
incessant stray population,
lacking accessibility towards affordable spay & neuter procedures,
puppy mills and abusive breeders,
lack of rules that should protect animals in private institutions,
and the lack of evacuation for all animals during the flood.
These are all enough to make you feel angry.
The rally was in opposition of the massive irregularities in the flood control infrastructure projects. The floods directly impact every aspect of a Filipino's day-to-day living. It affected livelihoods, nutrition, school, and transportation for plenty enough years. As for the animals, many had been left to drown, even tied or caged, and the rest fend for themselves. Please realize that clean roads are important, and the issue goes beyond your inconvenience as a car owner when it rains. Our roads are literally BRIDGES of a normal Filipino's tomorrow. It takes away their opportunity of eating a proper meal, of making every cent last until the weather permits them to work again, of having a proper education - it steals lives. Too many lives.
Corruption had always been the root cause of every issue we have been dealing with. We have always been the collateral damage of powerful people that lavish in their social status. And to think that toxic resilience had been so deeply ingrained in our minds, that we continue to adapt to floods, stick with the substandard living conditions, and just get used to the circus-like administration. We are conditioned to believe that there will be no change. It is so disgusting to think that people could have had mediocrity, yet not even that was given to them.
When people could have had a chance at a normal life, if the people in power cared enough to hear their voice. So it was only right to flood the streets yet again with voices that shouted for accountability. It was the only permissible and the last flood one can only hope for.
We are the voice of the Filipino people that deserve better, and the voiceless deserve to be fought for too.
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