Listed below are occasions and initiatives organized by progressive teams, civil society organizations, and enterprise teams forward of SONA 2026
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is ready to ship his fifth State of the Nation Handle (SONA) on Monday, July 27.
Varied teams are coming collectively to amplify sectoral considerations and encourage public engagement within the lead-up to and on the day of the SONA.
These actions embody protests, neighborhood gatherings, boards, cultural occasions, and extra, each within the Philippines and overseas. Under is a listing of those actions:
Refresh this web page for updates as extra occasion particulars are introduced.
Protests
A day earlier than SONA, on Sunday, July 26, the Kabataan Partylist–Nationwide Capital Area will maintain a State of the Youth Handle 2026 on the IFI Nationwide Cathedral Convention Corridor, Manila.
The ceremony will collect youth teams, pupil councils, campus publications, organizations, and pupil leaders from Metro Manila to boost calls on training, accountability, and social considerations, as younger advocates assert their function in shaping the nation’s future.
In the meantime, round 10,000 protesters are anticipated to converge outdoors the Batasang Pambansa on Monday, July 27, because the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) and its allied folks’s organizations stage their annual Folks’s State of the Nation Handle.
This system will start at 12 pm alongside Commonwealth Avenue, adopted by a 2 pm march to Saint Peter Parish, the place multisectoral teams will maintain what they describe because the nation’s “actual state of the nation.”
Panday Sining UP Diliman can be getting ready for the protest by means of banner and effigy-making operations on the Scholar Union Constructing (SUB) in UP Diliman, Quezon Metropolis from July 15 to July 25.
The Philippine Medical College students’ Affiliation can be recruiting volunteer medics for the Folks’s SONA, calling on medical and well being science college students to supply first help throughout the mobilization.
Boards
- Quezon Metropolis | The UP Nationwide Faculty of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG) is conducting a discussion board titled, “SONA ALL! Stocktaking of PBBM’s SONA Guarantees from 2022-2025” on Friday, July 24 on the UP NCPAG AVR in Diliman, Quezon Metropolis from 1 pm to five pm. The dialogue goals to look at the guarantees made by Marcos throughout previous SONAs.
- On-line
- Gabriela Youth – Muntinlupa and Kabataan Partylist – Muntinlupa is organizing a dialogue on “Flood and Blood: The Value of Corruption” at 1 pm on Friday, July 24, to sort out the vital nationwide developments surrounding public accountability within the context of the continued impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte and the core problems with President Marcos’ SONA.
- The European Chamber Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) is organizing the “ECCP Publish-SONA Enterprise and Coverage Evaluation” on Tuesday, July 28, from 2 pm to 4 pm to supply post-SONA insights into the President’s key coverage instructions and their implications for companies, investments, and totally different industries.
Native, sectoral actions
- Quezon Metropolis
- Indigenous girls from 20 communities throughout the Philippines will collect for the Nationwide Indigenous Girls Gathering 2026 from July 25 to 29. Led by LILAK (Purple Motion for Indigenous Girls’s Rights), the gathering will consolidate requires accountability and justice over the plunder of assets and the persevering with assaults on land and surroundings girls human rights defenders. Individuals will cap the gathering by becoming a member of the mobilization on July 27 and holding a neighborhood watch social gathering within the afternoon.
- LILAK can be main an alliance of progressive teams alongside Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) and In Protection of Human Rights and Dignity Motion (IDEFEND), for a protest motion outdoors the Division of Surroundings and Pure Assets Central Workplace on Monday, July 27, at 9 am, calling for accountability over corruption, environmental destruction, and insurance policies they are saying have deepened poverty.
- Vandals United is staging a “Streets of the Nation Assault” protest with a neighborhood of skaters, graffiti artists, writers, and musicians on the Fee on Human Rights, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon Metropolis on Monday, July 27, at 9 am. It goals to focus on problems with poverty, training, job safety, land grabbing, and staff’ rights below the present administration.
- Lapu-Lapu Metropolis | The Involved Artists of the Philippines (CAP) Cebu Chapter is internet hosting an exhibition from July 24 till August 14 on the Lapu-Lapu Artwork Gallery. Dubbed, “Identical Previous, Identical Previous: The State of the Nation, the exhibition brings collectively works from 4 political poster exhibitions mounted between 2023 and 2026, revisiting campaigns and creative responses to points affecting unusual Filipinos.
- Pangasinan | Pangasinan Folks’s Strike for the Surroundings and different environmental advocates are internet hosting their “State of the Pangasinan Surroundings” on Saturday, July 25. This initiative is ready to debate considerations together with black sand mining in Lingayen Gulf, plastic air pollution within the Agno River-Delta, threats of a proposed nuclear plant in Labrador, and land-use conversion affecting agricultural lands.
- Manila Metropolis | The Youth for Nationalism and Democracy – PUP is organizing “Ano ang gusto mong marinig sa SONA 2026?” (What do you wish to hear in SONA 2026), a protest calling for presidency accountability. The mobilization will happen at 7 am on July 27 at Mendiola Bridge in Manila.
- Nueva Vizcaya | Indigenous peoples, folks’s organizations, church teams, and environmental advocates are additionally staging a Folks’s SONA on July 27, calling for the cancellation of the 4,456-hectare exploration allow granted to North Luzon Mineral Assets Company in Kasibu over threats to the province’s surroundings and livelihood.
Abroad mobilizations
- British Columbia | Sulong College of British Columbia (UBC), a youth group primarily based in Canada, is organizing a Folks’s State of the Nation Handle for abroad Filipinos on Sunday, July 26 from 2 pm to 4 pm, at Metrotown Station in Burnaby. The rally goals to encourage abroad Filipinos to make use of their voice and communicate out in opposition to the large corruption and human rights violations. In an announcement, Sulong UBC cites Marcos Jr.’s current go to to Canada as a reminder for Filipinos overseas of the struggles confronted by Filipinos within the Philippines.
- Berlin | ALPAS Pilipinas, a political group working to assist the Filipino neighborhood in Berlin, can be staging its personal Folks’s State of the Nation Handle 2026 on the Philippine embassy in Berlin, Germany on July 27 at 6 pm. The group expresses its assist for staff, migrants, the youth, and all these resisting exploitation, oppression, and injustice.
- Melbourne | BAYAN Australia together with different Filipino organizations can be organizing “Folks’s SONA Rally: What’s the true state of the Filipinos Overseas” on Sunday, July 26, to attract consideration to the true state of Filipinos overseas, results of the Pax Silica initiative, and the rights and calls for of Filipinos from the federal government. Protesters are anticipated to assemble on the Melbourne City Corridor and can march to the Philippine Consulate.
Are you aware of different SONA-related protests or actions, or wish to keep up to date on SONA 2026? Be part of the Rappler Communities #PhilippinePolitics chatroom to share them, assist maintain this checklist up to date, and observe real-time developments as they occur. – with experiences from Francine Lauron, James Caponpon, and Rae Goco / Rappler.com
Rae Goco is a Rappler volunteer from Ateneo de Manila College. She is an incoming junior taking on AB Communication with a concentrate on this system’s Journalism observe. She presently serves because the Options Editor of The GUIDON.
Francine Lauron is a Rappler volunteer from the College of the Philippines Diliman. She is an incoming senior taking on a Bachelor of Arts in English Research.
James Caponpon is a Rappler volunteer from Ateneo de Manila College. He’s an incoming junior taking on Bachelor of Arts in Communication, specializing in Journalism and Picture and Sound Manufacturing. He’s presently the Managing Editor of Matanglawin Ateneo.
