finished a 60-pager without exhaling and will not be viable for the next few years, I’m outta here.
Just got a text from the guest coordinator of The Explainer, MLQ III’s show (Manolo Quezon); the guest coordinator invited a person with my name (because the text referred to me in the third person) to a discussion on Edsa 2 next week where the person with my name will defend the legality of Edsa 2 and Dean Jorge Bocobo will oppose it. I sent thanks for the invite and regrets for not being available for such a debate.
Anyway.
Edsa Dos was a proud moment; i don’t regret any day of that entire year except one night of it; that night when we were getting information that the trapos of Gloria were negotiating with the trapo camp of Erap in Malacanang on the transfer of power to Gloria; regret for that night because for the entire year the movement and the agreements were founded on a leadership made up of people’s organizations and civil society; and when our group (PILC lawyers and human rights organizations; we made a formation in front of the POEA to proceed to Malacanang), was going to move out to go to the Palace to stop the trapos from parcelling the country, we were restrained from breaking away; there were negotiations. We marched to Espana and got there at 3:00 am or 4:00 am, at the Welcome Rotonda, we waited at the gas station, then at the break of day, we marched to the palace. At mid-morning about 30,000 marchers met us on a bridge. And we ousted Erap; but his leaving had been the subject of negotiations before we got to the palace and those negotiations would not have been possible without the people’s marches.
Gloria betrayed Edsa Dos.
my right shoulder muscle is sore and stiff; i’m outta here, goodbye bunot!
