{"id":3825,"date":"2015-07-10T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2015-07-10T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:40:50","slug":"glenwood-resident-leads-stop-binay-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood resident leads \u201cStop Binay Walk\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Makati City Philippines<\/span><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> Well-known music maestro <strong>Jim Paredes<\/strong> of the Apo Hiking Society led anti-Jejomar Binay marchers during a rally to stop the Philippine Vice President from running in the 2016 presidential elections. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Paredes and his family migrated to Australia many years ago. They have been residents of Glenwood NSW since then.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was held a day before Makati City\u2019s celebration of its 345<sup>th<\/sup> Foundation Day where a grand parade dubbed \u201cSampiro de Makati Festival\u201d was held.<\/p>\n<p>With no permit, the rallyists assembled at the Makati Freedom Park and walked along the pedestrian lanes of Ayala Avenue and other busy streets until the statue of the late Benigno \u201cNinoy\u201d Aquino at the corner of Ayala Avenue and Paseo De Roxas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt (the rally) will be insignificant if not in Makati. It has to be here,\u201d said Paredes.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed as #StopBinayWalk,\u201d Paredes has expressed disgust over the egotism of Binay \u201cwho thinks he does not have to answer serious allegations of corruptions against him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe walk our talk because we believe that no one is above the law, we believe that public servants should be the foremost exemplars of humility and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We walk our talk because all men and women in power must be held to account and should be ready to prove their innocence before God and country,\u201d said Paredes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expected only about 200 people to show up but we were shocked that those people also brought other people with them,\u201d Paredes told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Binay is facing plunder and graft charges in the Office of the Ombudsman in connection with the construction of Makati City Hall Building II, allegedly overpriced at P2.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has refused to show up in Senate hearings. I think as a possible presidential candidate, he should at least answer the charges against him,\u201d Paredes added.<\/p>\n<p>Binay\u2019s son, \u201cJunjun\u201d Binay, is mayor of Makati. His daughter, Abigail Binay-Campos holds the seat of Makati\u2019s second district in the House of Representatives. Another daughter, Nancy Sombillo Binay, was unknown but was elected to the Senate in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makati City Philippines. Well-known music maestro Jim Paredes of the Apo Hiking Society led anti-Jejomar Binay marchers during a rally to stop the Philippine Vice President from running in the 2016 presidential elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,49,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}