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...serve out his term. What he got instead, when the trial collapsed, was the onset of political rigor mortis: the Senate vote became the symbolic catalyst sending hundreds of thousands of Filipinos into the streets to rally at the People Power shrine built along Epifania de los Santos (EDSA) Ave., where praying nuns faced down tanks...
...negotiators: he had to resign by Saturday at 6 a.m. All through Friday night, demonstrators continued to gather. This has been called the pager revolution for good reason: within minutes of the Senate vote, text messages had flashed through the Manila ether telling anti-Estrada Filipinos to GO TO EDSA. Hundreds of thousands converged on the capital, following directions to, as one message put it, WEAR BLACK TO MOURN THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY. Said another text message: EXPECT THERE TO BE RUMBLES...
...attitude of the people was much different than during the February 1986 People-Power Revolution, also centered around the two bases. The people that showed up at Edsa Highway during the August rebellion were curious rather than supportive...
...others, like Jeff Wells, Edsa Takkanen, Penny DeMoss and Kim Merritt, the garage was a place to sit and contemplate what it was that made the difference between a win and just a good effort...