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Noynoy Aquino, a modern liberal
For the many who have enthusiastically supported or joined EDSA II, myself among them, the final push was almost certainly the failure of the constitutional process (the remedy of impeachment) to hold then President Estrada accountable for charges of multiple impeachment offenses. (President–elect...
Source: Filipino Voices
Election Fever: “Failure of Election… What IF…?”
Election Fever: “Failure of Election… What IF…?”
By Marcing Pin
For the last six-ten months, we have faced the fears, rumors, and speculations of Con-Ass (charter change), No-El scenario (no election), and the Oplan August Moon (military takeover) but one question continue to lingers in the mind of some Filipinos is “What if the election fails?”
All these speculations of changing the charter, no elections, military takeover, the failure of election and even the battle for the right to appoint the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the overused “people power” are connected or associated to one another. One obvious factor was the extension of Gloria Arroyo’s presidency and another of course, was a military junta. Many people denied these speculations and some pretty much refuse to recognize any of those rumors.
But WHAT IF…? What will happen if the election fails? What IF it really happens?
Between May 10 and June 30, 2010, we are about to witness series of events that will help shape the country for the next six years. However, assuming that Arroyo is not able to appoint the new Chief Justice, the country will have vacancy in the three branches of government. Noynoy Aquino and his Yellow Army wants the right to appoint the new Chief Justice be given to the newly elected president not from the outgoing president (already assuming that he have won the presidency without even understanding the “check” system of the three branches).
Election Fever: “Bongbong Marcos sa Senado… NOT!!!”
Election Fever: “Bongbong Marcos sa Senado… NOT!!!“
By Marcing Pin
Nacionalista Party (and Kilusang Bagong Lipunan) Senatorial Candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Liberal Party Presidential Candidate Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III are the best examples of presidential sons following the footsteps of their parents. The incumbent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was and is one of them (following the footsteps of her father, former President Diosdado Macapagal), and so is her son Mikey Arroyo. The country will be seriously f*cked up if the next presidential election (2016) have those three (Bongbong, Noynoy, and Mikey) above as presidential candidates along with ousted President Joseph Estrada’s son Jinggoy. Though, I am not a fan of Erap but out of those four, the most qualified is definitely Senator Jinggoy Estrada. Anyway, this article is about why Filipinos should not vote for Bongbong Marcos….
Against a non-partisan People Power
Speaking at the ceremony commemorating the 24th anniversary of the People Power Revolution, our hardworking and prayerful President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, bemoaned the “partisanship” that the notion of “people power” has acquired through the years, and arrogated unto herself...
Source: Filipino Voices
Filipinos around the world denounce Money Power, celebrate People Power
TELLTALE SIGNS: THE LAST PEOPLE POWER RALLY?
Rodel Rodis, February 24, 2010
In one of CBS reporter Bob Simon’s telecasts from the Philippines when he covered the People Power revolution in February of 1986, he said “Often we Americans like to think that we taught Filipinos Democracy, well, tonight,...
Source: NOYPIPOL: The Official Blog of Sen. Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino
Noynoy Aquino’s speech at the EDSA-People Power celebration at Araneta
Pebrero 25, 2010
Araneta Coliseum
Mga minamahal kong kasama, kapatid at kababayan:
Noong madaling araw ng Setyembre 23, 1972, dumating ang mga sundalo at dinakip ang aking ama. Kami naman ay ginising ng aming ina, at sinabi sa amin kung ano ang nangyari.
Labing- dalawang taong gulang lamang po ako...
Source: NOYPIPOL: The Official Blog of Sen. Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino
Photos from People Power at Araneta
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The next generation celebrates EDSA with full spirit!
Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap!
fiesta outside araneta
Dilaw ang kulay ng pagbabago!
Magiging senadora Sonia Roco's supporters
dear little one, this fight is for...
Source: NOYPIPOL: The Official Blog of Sen. Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino
People Power and Elite Democracy in the Philippines
Today is 24th anniversary (February 25) of the fourth and final day of the so-called “People Power Revolution”. Though, in my opinion, the four-day revolution is no revolution at all but rather an uprising since it never change the Philippine society and it remain as it was before 1972 or during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
About two years ago, I took a Political Science paper about Nationalism and Democracy in Southeast Asia. One of the requirements was to write a research paper about a political event in a country of my choice. Of course, as a Filipino, I choose the Philippines and picked the “People Power Uprising”.
Here is the question I came up with: How did the success of the people’s power uprising help change Philippine society? Did the uprising help return the political power to the traditional elites?…
