MANILA, Philippines -- Over 200 "fans" of popular social networking site Facebook will be marching from the historic Edsa Shrine to Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City noon today to show their support to the presidential bid of Liberal Party standard bearer Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III.
The members of the group, dubbed Dilaw para sa Pagbabago, will also join today's commemoration of the 24th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution.
"Gusto nilang ipakita ang suporta nila sa kandidatura nina (They want to show support to the candidacy of ) Aquino at (and) Roxas, and they wanted to manifest this in a show of People Power. What better way than on the anniversary of the day People Power triumphed?” said Rio Pena, one of the convenors of group.
Aside from Pena's group, around 1,000 Akbayan members will also be joining the celebration and meet other Aquino supporters, marching from the corner of Timog Avenue and Edsa to the Araneta Coliseum.
“We’d like to prove that the spirit of EDSA is still alive, and no one can inspire us to reclaim this spirit but the Aquinos," Pena said.
The senator is the son of the late democracy icons, former President Corazon Aquino and former senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr.
- By Dennis Carcamo (Philstar News Service, www.philstar.com)
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