Learning from EDSA

Pete Lacaba’s article “The Name Game” reprinted in his blog talks about names inspired by the first EDSA uprising, the First Quarter Storm and the Martial Law era.

I’m mentioning this since today is the 22nd anniversary of the first EDSA and for the reason that my own name, along with the names some persons from my own generation who I know, also have roots from that era.

So moving on to the main matter: What is to be done when our representatives fail? The answer to this question is the threat of another “People Power” uprising, Manuel Quezon III writes in his column. But there are those, as cited in Quezon’s blog, who are against this. Onomatopoeia, in particular, reproduced “A Call to Stop the Threat of People Power.”

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