know as "Tita Cory", the P.I's first female president, she stopped Marcos' dictatorship, and spurred peaceful protests that started others around the world, even one that inspired and ended communist rule in Eastern Europe. Her "People Power" movement will never be forgotten!
"She was headstrong and single-minded in one goal, and that was to remove all vestiges of an entrenched dictatorship," Raul C. Pangalangan, former dean of the Law School at the University of the Philippines, said earlier this month. "We all owe her in a big way."
"During Ninoy's incarceration and before my presidency, I used to ask why it had always to be us to make the sacrifice," she said in a 2007 interview with The Philippine Star newspaper. "And then, when Ninoy died, I would say, 'Why does it have to be me now?' It seemed like we were always the sacrificial lamb."
She returned to the Philippines three days later. One week after that, she led the largest funeral procession Manila had seen. Crowd estimates ranged as high as 2 million.
With public opposition mounting against Marcos, he stunned the nation in November 1985 by calling a snap election in a bid to shore up his mandate. The opposition, including then Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, urged Aquino to run.
After a fierce campaign, the vote was held on Feb. 7, 1986. The National Assembly declared Marcos the winner, but journalists, foreign observers and church leaders alleged massive fraud.
With the result in dispute, a group of military officers mutinied against Marcos on Feb. 22 and holed up with a small force in a military camp in Manila.
Over the following three days, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos responded to a call by the Roman Catholic Church to jam the broad highway in front of the camp to prevent an attack by Marcos forces.
On the third day, against the advice of her security detail, Aquino appeared at the rally alongside the mutineers, led by Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, the military vice chief of staff and Marcos' cousin.
From a makeshift platform, she declared: "For the first time in the history of the world, a civilian population has been called to defend the military."
The military chiefs pledged their loyalty to Aquino and charged that Marcos had won the election by fraud.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a longtime supporter of Marcos, called on him to resign. "Attempts to prolong the life of the present regime by violence are futile," the White House said. American officials offered to fly Marcos out of the Philippines.
On Feb. 25, Marcos and his family went to the U.S.-run Clark Air Base outside Manila and flew to Hawaii, where he died three years later.
The same day, Aquino was sworn in as the Philippines' first female leader.
via - yahoo news & CNN
lately, I've just been on a dubstep, ambient, lo fi, musical tip, and I'm lovin it. The beats I feel make me feel the most secure about who I am as an emcee, and I feel like it allows me to just fall in place with the lyrics and pour it out from the soul honestly and unapologetically, and even more importantly, confidently. But a couple more finds from bouncing around music to music site. Ch Check em out! Dabrye has ill ill beats, and Flying Lotus just fills the tracks with such a vibe, and allows for a mind that wants to write to construct around it!
This Track is ILL! A we need mouth to mouth CPR type of track!
The pen just runs off on it's own on this track.
big thanks to brotha man Lou, for posting JussJef's guitar on his facebook, so I've got to spread the love, this man is amazing on the guitar, and he makes Weezy's track about treating his little guy like a lollipop seem like an expert composition! Ch Ch check it!
haha, never thought I'd be interviewed, but I did a webcast interview last week with a couple Jim and Beth Hood who wrote a book called "Road Map to the Real World", and are uber cool folks, who are doing things aligned with what Roadtrip Nation is trying to do.
check it out yo.
http://webtalkradio.net/index.php/show-podcasts/106-road-map-to-the-real-world-with-beth-and-jim/3523-week0931
check out their site as well
http://www.roadmaptotherealworld.com
one of the dopest things about working @ road trip is not only having the resources here to pursue the audio, video, music aspects of my life that I wanna expand, but the little nuggets of wisdom that you come across on the daily whether it be from ide-a-ting, chatting, or working with the content. At any given moment you can be struck with an epiphany, or a slight catharsis that further molds your thinking, or gets you hyped as what on your personal goals.
I was going through the interviews on the website for some new interviews were about to put online, and I heard a cool quote used by Michael Jager, he's the founder of the creative firm for Burton.
"The world will conspire to support you, if you really magnify what it is you believe in, and people will rally around you" - Simon Woodruff.
It was huge for me in that I've been working on lately putting myself out there as far as trying to wear and carry what I believe in, and the things I'm going for wihout being apologetic for it, or feeling self conscious. Here at Road trip is also inspiring because I learn from people here who are fearless about owning their own personal nuances and quirks, and are willing to project out the things they are passionate about. Hopefully this daily learning's gonna let me just let it go in my music, and not be apologetic for not fitting into a box, and as Michal Jager advises, "Do it with balls, you can do whatever the hell you want". holler. p.l.p
When I first heard her vocals on the Thin White Duke's remix of Royksopp's "What Else Is There" I thought Karin Dreijer Andersson was Sia. But after finding that out, and wiki ing Andersson, I saw she was part of an electro duo called The Knife. I found this track Marbles and I really dig how the elements of the beats almost seem bare, but there's something about it that just comes across tidy and in place and draws me in, and I really love Andersson's vocals. Ch ch check it, P.L.P
