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...Ernesto Arroyo, a.k.a. “Eroc,” a Boston native and MC in the hip hop group “The Foundation,” introduced himself with a rap: “I am the Foundation, I’m an entire nation/I’m persistence, resistance, the reason for existence...I’m evolution, I’m revolution/They can’t stop us, ’cuz we are free...
Beyond his smooth rhymes, Arroyo offered a pointed message...
...educated about the [electoral] process, know who’s running, vote, hold those people accountable,” Arroyo said...
...fire raged for nine hours, destroying 2,500 dwellings and leaving 22,000 people without shelter. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo rushed to the scene in jeans and a shirt and ordered the survivors to be evacuated to government buildings. (Arroyo, who is running for election this year, also distributed T shirts emblazoned "Gloria loves me.") Hours later, she and Manila Mayor Lito Atienza announced their intention to build a settlement for the victims. When?and if?that will happen is unknown...
...President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's National Security Adviser, Roilo Golez, emphatically denies that 600 JI members are present in the Philippines. "That's wrong," he tells TIME. "Very, very wrong. I can bet my future, my career and my life that it's not true." The government has made similar assertions in the past. Arroyo herself denied for months that the JI problem was serious. Then in an about-face in November, she announced that her administration now regards JI as the country's biggest national security threat...