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...Also like People Power, many of these latter-day protests have profited from the power of communication to mobilize. Back in 1986, some 1 million marchers who flooded the now iconic Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) were summoned by samizdat radio stations that broadcast a political call to prayer. During the recent mass protests in the former Soviet bloc, it was thumbs tapping out cell-phone text messages that brought crowds onto streets. This year in Iran, Twitter and other social-networking sites have served as the carrier pigeons of incipient revolution...
...might be regarded as resilient, spontaneous, flexible and sentimental. TIME credited People Power as the Filipino contribution to history, "a true gift to the world." But even before that, Filipinos wrote Asia's first constitution and proclaimed its first republic. The monuments to the People Power revolution on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue offer a hint of the democratic achievements of the Philippines, but its citizens are capable of accomplishing even more. Leomil O. Aportadera Iloilo City, the Philippines...
Revolution philippine-style is a two-step affair. First, you stop traffic in Manila by drawing a large crowd on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, or EDSA, one of the city's main thoroughfares. Next, you recruit a couple of ambitious generals who can enlist the troops and scramble the jets. That's the way two Philippine Presidents were overthrown: kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and party-loving, mah-jongg crazy Joseph Estrada last January...
...first people power revolution in 1986, and it was truly glorious. The Filipinos who massed on Epifanio de los Santos Ave, or EDSA, were genuinely brave, far more than the crowds gathered last week on the same highway. Ferdinand Marcos was a tough character, and he had a military machine behind him. Who would have thought a group of nuns could vanquish...
...revolutionaries, led by Central Bank President Epifanio Mendez Fleitas, were all Paraguayan admirers of Argentina's fallen dictator, Juan Perón. At one time, Stroessner himself was chummy enough with Perón to put his picture and Perón's together on Paraguayan postage stamps. But of late Argentina's revolutionary government has been pressing for de-Peronization in Paraguay as well as at home. Argentine exports to Paraguay of vitally needed flour and other foods began to fall off significantly. A fortnight ago. Stroessner sent a top general to hold private talks with...
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