Philippine State of Emergency Updates

Here are updates regarding the declaration of a state of emergency in the Philippines and other related events.

Other updates will appear here.

4:20PM - Police and rallyists both place women at the front of their lines.

4:05PM - Makati rallyists standing 30 meters away from the police. (Seen in the Ayala Avenue crowd: A foreign couple and their child [riding in a stroller]; several taho vendors.)

3:55PM - EDSA cor Ortigas Ave looks clear (webcam). Helicopters keep flying overhead.

3:53PM - Rallyists marching towards Ayala Ave. in Makati. Blue and red flags. It would be great if mobile bloggers would post photos to their blogs using their cellphones. Too bad, G-Blogs is down. Haven't found any Makati photos in CubeBlog.

3:40PM - NTC meets with cable operators; considering the possibility of government taking over radio stations and preventing the airing of anti-government messages if needed.

[ First posted on 02/24/2006 by Manuel Viloria ]