For today’s posting on Cory Aquino, Tosha Albor wrote about Filipinos’ collective sense of unity forged by the experiences,
identity and dreams of the diasporas around the world, as she reflects on her experience as a “people power baby,” the generation that lived their youth through the transition to democracy that Cory Aquino forged.
Her reflections from her perspective of living through Cory Aquino’s inauguration as a young child differ significantly from Leslie’s adult viewpoint in an earlier entry. However, the arc of unity across Filipinos that Tosha describes is almost undeniable when reading ...read more
Shortly after work late last Friday, I found out about the news of Corazon Aquino’s death through my Facebook newsfeed where a friend had posted a status update, “Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, 1933-2009, Icon of Philippine Democracy.” Instantly, I remembered visions of my parents and their friends crowding around the television watching the 1986 rebellion that led to the fall of the 20-year autocratic Marcos regime and propelled her as the leader of the country. Since I was so young, I couldn’t appreciate the history in the making. However, when I was sitting in my office in New York, I suddenly saw that moment in time from whole new ...read more
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