We will not surrender our freedomsToday, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Finding New Meaning in EDSA I KNOW I have written about my absence from EDSA during the four tumultuous days in February 1986. Posted in 2014, the recollection of the times could recall for many readers who no longer have authentic sources to understand this past. For myself, the experience recurs at so many... FOUR DAYS IN FEBRUARY Day 1 TO MOST Filipinos, it all began with the cackle of voices over the transistor radio. “I was informed by my boys that there is to be an effort to arrest all members of the reformist movement. . .” then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile said, launching a... Learning from EDSA EVEN BEFORE the February 22, 1986 press conference called by then Minister of National Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and then Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Vice-Chief of Staff Fidel V. Ramos to publicly declare their withdrawal of support from the government of Ferdinand Marcos, rumors were already... EDSA 1: A Recollection ON FEBRUARY 22, 1986, a Saturday, I was coming home exhausted from a Namfrel (National Movement for Free Elections) thanksgiving mass in Marikina. It was about 8 pm. My exhaustion was due to months of doing Namfrel work as the Chair for Mandaluyong City. It also came from... Absent from EDSA SOMETIME IN August 1985, I had to leave the country to be with my family in the US. It was a sabbatical away from work that my husband and I had planned to do. He was appointed as exchange professor at the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor...
