30K runners in 5K run for FOI

READY, SET, RUN!

About 16,000 runners in Manila and 14,000 more runners across the nation will take to the road a common clamor: Pass the People’s Freedom of Information (FOI) Act now!

The Tanglaw Run for FOI starts at 5 am today, Oct. 4, at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila. Simultaneous runs have been organized, too, in the provinces of Batangas, Bataan, Bulacan, Camarines Sur, Laguna, Mindoro, Nueva Ecija, Quezon.

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Organized by the Federation of Alumni Associations in PUP, Inc. (FEDAAPI) and the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition, the advocacy run aims to press urgent action by President Benigno S. Aquino III and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on the FOI bill pending in the House of Representatives.

Runners for the 5-kilometer run in Manila will assemble at 4:30 a.m.for a short program, before gun-start at 5 a.m. Regent Rene Tanasas, FEDAAPI President, and Dr. Emanuel De Guzman, president of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, will give brief welcome remarks.

After the run, the PUP organizers and representatives from the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition will hold a press conference at a tent set up at the Quirino Grandstand area.

The Tanglaw Run for FOI is mobilizing the PUP alumni, faculty and students, as the PUP community’s contribution to the escalation of the people’s demand for Aquino and Congress to accord the FOI bill the same attention as other crucial legislations such as the Bangsamoro Basic Law.

The event takes place as the FOI campaign pushes for the adoption by the House Committee on Public Information of the consolidated bill recently approved by the committee’s technical working group.

Tanglaw Run for FOI will also turn over to the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition 30,000 signatures to the letter addressed to Aquino and Belmonte calling for decisive action on the FOI bill. The new signatures will be added to the almost 40,000 signatures that the Coalition had submitted last July to Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda in July.

The Coalition will be seeking an audience with Speaker Belmonte when Congress resumes session on October 20.