Word: edsa
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...this trip, a tour of isolated and poor villages in the northern province of Abra. By distributing food and medicine, land titles and millions of pesos' worth of funds intended for agricultural modernization programs, she has brought government into the mountains, she says, along with the spirit of EDSA II, the second People Power revolution that swept her into office 12 long months...
...That time, the military refused to flip as they had during EDSA II. That may have saved her presidency, and quite possibly her life, but it further cemented a political role for the military?no small danger in a country where talk of a coup is always in the air. Her key backer, General Angelo Reyes, the army's Chief of Staff, was installed as Arroyo's Defense Secretary. And though she insists the military is "truly professional, not political," she's been careful not to cross them. With the U.S. opening a second front, in Mindanao...
...This isn't just the usual rumormongering. The stakes are frighteningly high. Another EDSA would be disastrous, no matter who took over. The country is struggling to emerge from the damage Estrada caused to Ramos' reforms at home and investor confidence abroad. Another People Power, and the nation's image could be downgraded from shaky to basket case...
...stripes: call it powering up. In the Philippines, protesters using cell-phone text messaging mobilized hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in January to help oust President Joseph Estrada. Miguel Arroyo, husband of new President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, says her supporters kept urging everyone to head to the edsa shrine, the main focus of the People Power II movement. "We texted everybody to go running there: 'edsa. edsa: everybody converge on edsa!'" In China, tens of thousands of followers of the spiritual group Falun Gong continue to exist - despite a harsh crackdown - in a vibrant community...
...coup plotters also underestimated the pig iron beneath the petite 54-year-old President's bulletproof vest. "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger," Arroyo told TIME last week. As the protesters occupied EDSA, Arroyo set up her own war room in the MalacaNang Palace. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and several thousand Elite marines and riot police were brought in to guard the riverside lanes around MalacaNang. They unspooled kilometers of razor wire around the palace; under the venerable trees of its garden marines dug in with .50-caliber machine guns. "Let them come. I'll crush them...