Better to keep democracy alive than beat a dead horse

Today will probably mark a different commemoration of September 21 from the previous regimes where protesters normally scratched old wounds inflicted by the Martial Law of old.

This time, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Proclamation No. 319 declaring this date as a “National Day of Protest,” suspending public school classes and government work to give way to street demonstrators to air their grievances against government and other institutions.