Comments on: iran’s edsa moments

By: jojie umali-riyadh

jojie umali-riyadh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:16:50 +0000

The tragedy with EDSA I was that we have relegated the power of prayer as a spent miracle to be invoked only in times of crises. WE have forgotten the saying “Nasa Diyos ang Awa,nasa Tao ang gawa”. To me, in hindsight,The biggest blunder of the post EDSA I was erecting the image of the Virgin Mary statute to represent in an Age of Modern Era the turning point in our people’s revolution where it was self-evident that the Divine intervention was the only power that could have define our peaceful revolution. To me, that hypocritical symbolism of patronage homage to Mother Dear was our leaders’ respond to God’s call and dispensation of power to change our lives. Some one has termed it “karma” for Filipinos turning its head ohterwise. Our leaders were focus not in structural changes in our political,economic and scoial inequalities but in more mundane activities and religious inanities that do not punish the evildoers according to law and rewards the righteous and honest. Hence, we are back to square one. Enough of those religious motherhood statements. lets demand more civility above the norms of good behaviour, law-abiding and be an honest family member. After all, as Shakespear has said, “Man is the measure”.

By: angela

angela — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:51:41 +0000

naku, jun ;) feel ko ang lungkot na iyan. para bagang binalewala na ng mundo ang EDSA natin, gayong ito mismo ang nagpatunay, like you say, na puwede ang peaceful revolution, pwedeng hindi magpatayan tungo sa pagbabago.

and you’re right, it’s a measure of the world’s low regard for us. oo, success yung four days in february, napatalsik natin si makoy at naiupo si cory, pero bumitaw agad tayo, nagtiwala tayong tuloytuloy na ang pagbabago, na siyempre hindi nangyari, salamat sa sandamakmak na marcos wanna-be’s na nagmyu-musical chairs sa palasyo hanggang ngayon. sa susunod talaga, dapat ay hindi agad bibitaw ang people power.

By: jun

jun — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:30:52 +0000

Watching Iran’s EDSA moments on CNN.

Hindi ko lang mapigilang malungkot.

People remember the bloodless revolution of Poland, Tianamen Square protests. They will remember how LEDA’s death will probably change the course of Iran’s clamor for a change.

But very few mention our EDSA. Parang nalimutan na ng mundo na tayo ang nagpatunay na pwede ang “peaceful revolution”.

Dahil? Sa bawat isang Marcos na paalisin, ay sandamakmak na kapwa buwaya ang naghihintay upang pumalit sa patatalsikin.

Minsan nahihiya akong aminin sa aking sarili na sacrilegious isiping ang ating shining or defining moment sa mundo ang siya ring most embarassing moment nating Pinoy. Ilang EDSA pa ba bago tayo matutong kumilatis ng mga taong magsisilbi sa atin?

By: angela

angela — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:19:09 +0000

hey orlando ;) noong edsa 86 hindi lang wala pang web, wala pa ring text messaging at digicams. and yet and yet. all we had was ONE radio station — the catholic radio veritas — that dared cover the enrile-ramos presscon, and kahit 24 hours lang itong nakapag-broadcast nationwide before it was attacked and rendered useless by ver’s forces, it was enough to embolden other radio stations to continue the coverage, and the rest is history. sa iran yata, hawak lahat ng radio and tv, and most of the nation is not wired, so i heard from cnn’s amanpour na the opposition’s call for nationwide strikes isn’t getting out to the rest of the nation…

By: reyna elena

reyna elena — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:49:01 +0000

@orlando,

agree.

one big difference was the moral authority of the church or religion. whereas in the Philippines, the Cardinal supported the popular will, the Ayatollah in Iran ignored the people’s will.

another thing of course was time – so am not sure if this is a big difference, but in the succeeding EDSA (and am not sure if this is counted) it’s mobile phones = text brigades, in Iran, it’s twitter and blogs.

but there were a number of similarities too!

By: Orlando R

Orlando R — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:38:29 +0000

there is a difference between edsa I and Iran today. The web was not yet well enough developed then, but now it is a weapon of the weak. The trick is to find the many little ways to tweak it.

By: angela

angela — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:03:41 +0000

my pleasure, reynz ;) and yes, i’m appreciating cardinal sin more. i used to say that he took too long deciding to support enrile and ramos because he was still in “critical collaboration” with the marcoses at the time of the defection. but when people started marching to edsa he could not but go with the people’s will.

By: reyna elena

reyna elena — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:07:57 +0000

merci beaucoup mademoiselle avec your Barrio Siete contribution! swak with current times and a reflection of what happened in our past. still glued very much with what is happening in Iran. so many lessons for us pinoys to be learned, the biggest of them all is that – legitimacy of the government does not emanates from “divine” insistence nang Ayatollah, rather, it’s from popular support. kudos to Cardinal Sin.