Comments on: EDSA discourse 2010: history & “ideology”

By: angela

angela — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:46:01 +0000

@leopoldoroy ;) sa totoo lang, i didn’t come across any material on what EDSA meant to the ilokanos and to ilokandia, except that if marcos had managed to get to paoay instead of being hijacked to hawaii, then EDSA would have turned out differently. but yes, i got a sense of how devastated ilokanos were because they loved and believed in marcos so, after all marcos really took care of ilokandia during his watch. i would welcome any material, if you have any, maybe even your own thoughts on paper, and i’d make sure it gets into my final book on edsa if and when it gets done.

By: LeopoldoRoy Barrit

LeopoldoRoy Barrit — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:56:25 +0000

Revisit, please. @angela, please revisit what EDSA meant to the Ilokanos and to Ilokandia all this time. I’m asking because you must know–and, I hope you will be candid and courageous, forgive me for saying so. Thank you.

By: angela

angela — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:35:11 +0000

thanks, reynz ;)) and good question, who ruined EDSA? kung tutuusin everyobdy was responsible. the people for making bitaw agad, trusting the new leaders to look out for the people’s interests. and the new leaders for going back to the old tricks once in power. and the church for selling the “miracle” angle. and the media… and the military… hehe i could go on and on….

By: reyna elena

reyna elena — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:20:45 +0000

nice read angela! and all these opinions on who owns edsa, it’s failures and/or its gains and all are really fun to read, like what you have just wrote about bongbong that it was a failure – nah – we were able to kick out a despot, no failure there.

much has been written about EDSA including its countours but i still have yet to read though an article or an opinion about “Who ruined EDSA?” hehehe

By: angela

angela — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:42:28 +0000

manuel ;) akala ko nagawa ko na yon with Himagsikan, but yes i keep getting the message that i have to do it in english too. i have a draft that’s almost done, nasingitan lang ng isa pang book project on my lola’s memoirs that’s also almost done. maybe i should stop blogging muna para matapos na pareho ;))

By: manuelbuencamino

manuelbuencamino — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:24:56 +0000

angela,

please write the definitive book on edsa soon

By: angela

angela — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:30:34 +0000

@ w.r.sobrepena : potential “civil war” in luzon… la union, the north, was marcos country then, right? more loyalists than coryistas or reformmists? what kind of preparations did you make? what kind of news were you getting about EDSA, and how, if any?

By: angela

angela — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:54:53 +0000

@ william russell sobrepena: thank you too ;))

By: William Russell Sobrepena

William Russell Sobrepena — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:14:33 +0000

Thank you for your efforts in sifting through the rubble of our brief history at EDSA, as well as, your thought-provoking discourse. On February 21-22, 1986, I was with the late senator Manuel P. Manahan in Caba, La Union, who then instructed me to stay in La Union and prepare for a potential “civil war” in Luzon. Meanwhile, senator Manahan drove back to Manila to try to meet with then minister Juan Ponce Enrile, then chief of staff Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, and then presidential candidate Corazon C. Aquino.

Fast forward to EDSA 2 in 2001. I was with former president Fidel V. Ramos, as we walked from the NAIA domestic terminal to EDSA and Ortigas Ave. Read the book of Ramos, “The Continuing Revolution.”

Mabuhay!