Million People March

MILLION PEOPLE MARCH On October 11, 2011, a global network occupying movements under the banner of “United for Global Change” mobilized hundreds of thousands in 951 cities in 82 countries around the world through the social network (Castells, 2012). This social movement happened to claim social justice and true democracy and relied on the internet to create a movement. In the Philippines, a movement was also made through the social network but to gather millions of people to protest about the current system of the government and was called The Million People March. The Million People March is a series of protest for the abolishment of the “Pork Barrel” or Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) wherein a pork barrel is a fixed fund allotted to each lawmaker to enable them to finance an infrastructure project either within their district or anywhere else in the country, in a given budget year. August 26, 2013, National Heroes Day, was the date set for the first in the series of protest mainly held in Luneta Park in the City of Manila. Similar rallies were also held in other cities nationwide including Bacolod, Baguio City, Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro, Davao City, Dagupan, Digos, Dumagete, Iligan City, Iloilo City, Kidapawan City, Legazpi, Naga City, Puerto Princessa, Tacloban, Tagbilaran City, Zamboanga City and in the province of Negros Occidental. Protests were also held in other places around the world including Dammam and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; Geneva; Bangkok; London; San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York in the United States; Hong Kong SAR; Canada; Taiwan; Vietnam; and the United Arab Emirates to also show the stand of our Overseas Filipinos worldwide. The protest has three demands: to scrap the pork barrel system; to account for all misused funds; and to investigate and punish all those who misused the funds. The newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer first exposed a six part article about the Pork Barrel scam on July 12, 2013, pointing to a