FYI in the Right to Know, Right Now! March and the Bantay Batasan para sa FOI (November 12)

While FYI members were at the mobilization,
others phoned legislators to know if they're
attending the November 13 FOI hearing. 

Members of the FOI Youth Initiative (FYI) marched with the Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition from España to Mendiola last November 12 (Monday) to call for the passage of the Freedom of Information Bill. This was a day before the House Committee on Public Information hearing on the measure, which ended up in a postponement of discussions due to the delaying tactics employed by Rep. Ben Evardone, the Committee Chair, and Rep. Rodolfo Antonino, a proponent of the anti-press freedom Right of Reply provision.

While the Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition held this protest action, other members of the FYI simultaneously initiated a phone brigade which was dubbed Bantay Batasan para sa FOI to determine committee members' attendance in the hearing the day after.