Can't help seeing Walking in the Philippine context as anything other than a political act, seeing the few markers in our history where the act of walking figured in: the annual Mendiola pilgimage, the Edsa People Power Revolution, the Bataan Death March, Rizal strolling from dank cell to firing squad in the midday heat.
Now if at all, walking is commuting from house to office place to the carinderia for lunch to back to the office and then back home; walking is strolling through malls windowshopping past storefronts if not farmers walking from the countrysides to Mendiola only to be hosed down and bullied, in memoriam of other farmers who'd been gunned down on the spot only a couple of decades ago.
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