A certain someone has voiced her opinions about the drastic increase of extrajudicial killings in the country.
Meet Adrienne Onday, a 19-year-old student of University of the Philippines Diliman.
The young UP apprentice made a loud noise when she went out in public with a cardboard bearing the message "Lahat tayo posibleng drug pusher" pinned to her shirt as she boarded a train from her house in Marikina City to De La Salle University in Manila, where she was to give a talk on student activism.
The ordeal is somewhat patterned to the dozens found beside the bodies of suspected criminals or drug addicts dumped in the streets.
Onday explains that the campaign #CardboardJustice was started by her friend Hope Swann to call for a stop to the extrajudicial killings that left many dead, devoid of a fair trial.
"My friend thought about the idea days before we took the campaign to the streets. I saw what she did and copied it that day because I knew I will be encountering a lot of people last Wednesday," Onday told in an interview.
The sign drew a lot of reactions from the public.
When asked why she joined the campaign, Onday wanted to show that putting labels on people are not an accurate way to describe them.
"When people are called rapists, criminals or drug pushers, it’s like you consider them animals and not human beings," Onday said, adding that people who commit mistakes should be given a second chance instead of being killed without due process.
Onday's act have also started similar cardboard signs whenever they take to the streets.
Not everyone, however, applauds her actions, calling Onday attention-seeker.
"I don’t want to take them seriously. I try not to let them affect me but it gets to a point that these things have become exhausting to read," she said.
Despite the negativity, Onday vowed to continue her campaign to put a stop to these bloody deaths.
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer
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