UPDATE 8/5/12 at 2:18 P.M. Manila time: Please see this article for a picture comparing the anti-RH rally in EDSA with the pro-RH rally with the Filipino Freethinkers a few days ago. No Comparison!
UPDATE 8/5/12 at 3:33 A.M. Manila time: Based on the pictures on this blog post as well as other sources, Dr. Quirino Sugon of Manila Observatory, blogger at the Monk's Hobbit, has made an initial estimate of the crowd as having been at 60,000.
UPDATE 8/5/12 at 3:33 A.M. Manila time: Based on the pictures on this blog post as well as other sources, Dr. Quirino Sugon of Manila Observatory, blogger at the Monk's Hobbit, has made an initial estimate of the crowd as having been at 60,000.
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And the pro-RH spin machine goes into high gear!
Manila Bulletin, in what will probably go down as one of the lowest and most shameful points in its history, declared that only 2,500 attended the rally.
According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, there were only 7,000 at the rally today...
As for the Philippine Star, it counted "more than 10,000" at the rally.
However, the pictures tell a different story.
From the UST Varsitarian:
From my friend Anna Cosio:
From Ricardo Boncan:
And from Lenard Berba comes this picture taken earlier in the rally, with a nice view of the streamers on a footbridge:
