Category: people power
the president & people power #cj trial
am seriously disturbed by this part of the president’s tagumpay ng bayan speech last 16 feb in the first of “townhall meetings” to mark the 10-day run-up to the 26th EDSA anniversary on feb 25: The impeachment trial of Mr. … Continue reading
armida: what if, people power vs SC
read armida siguion-reyna‘s What people want. she ends with thoughts of people power. I’ve been told there are lawyers invoking “the rule of law” and the Philippine Constitution, and I understand where they’re coming from. But, and this is a … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street, shades of the sixties
Occupy Wall Street reminds me of the youth unrest in America in the mid 1960s through the ’70s. except that then (like it was here), the youth were not as focused, i guess because of the drugs, the sex, and … Continue reading
why coryistas marched to EDSA in 1986
everytime february comes around i check out the first-person accounts, sifting for details that would further flesh out my chronology and / or that would either confirm or dispute my reading of the four-day event as essayed in Himagsikan. this … Continue reading
spinning egypt
the spin is in. the economic losses are being blamed on the youth protests rather than on the tyrant’s intransigence. and the opposition is now engaged daw in negotiations with mubarak’s vp. are the youth protesters represented in these talks? some say … Continue reading
mubarak’s good friday?
so mubarak has dug in. insists that he is the legitimate ruler until september elections. his supporters agree, afraid that if he goes life will get even more chaotic, not only for pro-mubarak egyptians, but for israel and america, because … Continue reading
egypt / edsa
in the beginning it seemed like egypt was doing an edsa. and then it became clear that, where we had cory-in-waiting to replace marcos, the anti-mubarak forces have no leader to replace the dictator with, and are/were depending on, expecting, … Continue reading
“Ninoy Aquino & the Rise of People Power”
at last, a good, no, a great, documentary film on ninoy aquino. why am i not surprised that it’s not home-made, no, it takes a tom coffman to tell us the story of ninoy. but thanks na rin to abs-cbn channel … Continue reading
the radical significance of EDSA
over @ anti-pinoy.com :) blogger ilda who was either too young or not around yet in 1986 asks valid questions about EDSA One. If an Edsa Denial group were to emerge today, their job will be easy. Aside from Ninoy … Continue reading
de quiros, aquino, edsa
conrado de quiros is sounding like a broken record these days, insisting that “edsa” & “people power” and “good vs. evil” are the themes to work on if we want to see noynoy aquino again racing ahead of the pack … Continue reading
environment & revolution
if junie kalaw were alive he’d be saying i-told-you-so, just like odette alcantara. junie and odette were our leading environmentalists, pioneers, who didn’t live to see the great floods wrought by ondoy & pepeng [and some dam(ned) officials] but … Continue reading
people power, rain or shine
it was a memorable day that we all got to share, thanks to the marvel of television. the cathedral rites were beautiful, fr. arevalo’s eulogy sublime, and the military honors stately and dignified. the family continued to amaze and warm the … Continue reading