AS expected, Rep. Neri Colmenares’s alternative state of the nation address, which he delivered for the Makabayan block in Congress, did not get the media mileage it deserved. After all it wasn’t VP Jejomar Binay’s TSONA, nor was it President Mayor Erap’s SOCA. And no, not at all Governor Imee Marcos’s SOPA.

Yet this is the state of the nation that made most sense, that resonated because truthful to the conditions of nation that we live in every day.

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