Word: edsa
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...said. Then, around 9 p.m., Saycon phoned a man whom he addressed as "Delta" and identified as General Lim. On speakerphone, Lim confirmed that he was set for the planned movement against Arroyo. According to Saycon, a military contingent was to march on Friday morning to Manila's EDSA Shrine commemorating the first People Power revolution, where the 20th anniversary celebrations were to take place. At the shrine they would be met by a contingent of Catholic bishops, and a Marine general would read a statement withdrawing support from Arroyo's government. The bishops, according to Saycon, had one request...
...Meanwhile, defying a ban on street rallies and occasionally scuffling with riot police, thousands of protesters marched to the EDSA Shrine Friday afternoon. One group of 5,000 was led by former President Aquino, who called on Arroyo to "make the supreme sacrifice" and resign. That's unlikely?Arroyo has told Time in the past that "nothing" would make her resign. But a real risk exists that in declaring emergency rule on the eve of the People Power anniversary, the President may have overplayed her hand and given her fractured opposition a unifying cause. "It could result in more political...
...People Power revolt that ousted Ferdinand Marcos was different. Clustered around Manila's main artery EDSA, it was heroic, miraculous and magical, dismantling an entrenched dictatorship and restoring democracy. The January 2001 EDSA Dos that led to the fall of Joseph Estrada was a poor photocopy; it forced out a dysfunctional presidency and followed the constitutional line of succession by ushering in Arroyo, who was Estrada's Vice President. The riot of May 2001, dubbed EDSA Tres and instigated by Estrada's fanatical supporters, completely debased the notion of People Power...
...this practice is known, spread like the Hong Kong flu, especially in the developing world. In the Philippines, the black-clad crowds that toppled President Joseph Estrada in 2001 were summoned into being with a now famous single line of coded text passed from phone to phone: "Go 2 EDSA [an acronym for a Manila street]. Wear blck." In Nigeria, the same technology was used to spark anti--Miss World riots that killed hundreds and drove the beauty contest out of Africa...
...real support from those like Josie Suangke, a 34-year-old mother-of-two who refused Arroyo entry into her apartment and refuses now to buy the low-cost rice offered in the neighborhood as part of an Arroyo program. Suangke says she is ready to go back to EDSA or the palace, anywhere that she can give voice to her misery. "I'll join," she says, despite having been teargassed and clubbed the last time around...