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A soldier reads a copy of Malaya during the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines. (Photo by Joe Galvez) Later in the afternoon of Feb. 22, Joe received a call (he said it was from Louie Beltran of the Philippine Daily Inquirer), who asked if he had heard about a report that the forces of Armed Forces chief of staff Gen. Fabian Ver had orders to arrest dozens of opposition leaders, as well as journalists in the Mosquito or Alternative Press, and haul them off to some detention facility on an island. The two friends counseled each other to take precautions and stay in touch. -Lourdes Molina-Fernandez ‘EDSA is not just four days in February’: A first-person account

A soldier reads a copy of Malaya during the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines. (Photo by Joe Galvez)

Later in the afternoon of Feb. 22, Joe received a call (he said it was from Louie Beltran of the Philippine Daily Inquirer), who asked if he had heard about a report that the forces of Armed Forces chief of staff Gen. Fabian Ver had orders to arrest dozens of opposition leaders, as well as journalists in the Mosquito or Alternative Press, and haul them off to some detention facility on an island. The two friends counseled each other to take precautions and stay in touch.

-Lourdes Molina-Fernandez

‘EDSA is not just four days in February’: A first-person account

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