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MANILA, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / August 27, 2008) – The Philippine Army on Wednesday confirmed government reports that Muslim rebels and have forged an alliance with communist insurgents in Mindanao, where security forces are battling the guerillas. Colonel Daniel Lucero, commander of the Army’s Civil-Military Operations, said the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the outlawed New People’s Army have forged a formal alliance as early as in 1999. “In fact, an informal agreement has been in existence since the late 1980’s. The formal link between the NDF, represented by the Mindanao Commission, and the MILF was forged in 1999. The...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has forced about 1,200 Christian farmers to flee from a village in the southern province of Mindanao. This is confirmed by the local police, who withdrew from the area in order to avoid an armed conflict with the rebels. This situation deteriorated last week, when Malaysia withdrew its mediators from the province, the stronghold of the Muslim Filipinos. Garcia, a local farmer, recounts: "The Islamic Front arrived suddenly and claimed their forefathers owned the land we are farming, and at gunpoint told us to leave. Police were not allowed entry, so they backed off to...

SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support--temporarily, it seems--after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group. The...

SOUTHERN LUZON, Philippines, April 29 (Reuters) - From his coconut leaf hut deep in the forest, Gregorio Rosal, one of the Philippine's most-wanted men, smiles in admiration at the recent success of Nepal's Maoist rebels. "Their advance has been inspiring," the chief spokesman for the communist insurgent New People's Army (NPA) told Reuters. "The protracted people's war that Mao practiced in China." Nepal's rebels loosely aligned themselves with mainstream political parties and forced the autocratic king to cede power this week. The NPA, waging the world's longest-communist insurgency, wants a similar tie-up with disgruntled soldiers and political opposition groups to...

ALARM - the IAEA returns Iran in front of the Security Council of UNO VIENNA - the council of the governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decided Saturday by vote to transmit the Iranian file to the Security Council of UNO for his suspect nuclear activities, announced the IAEA.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan said Thursday it had taken all "appropriate action" to break up the underground nuclear network run by its former chief nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri made the remarks one day after a British newspaper alleged Khan's network may still be in operation. The Guardian report cited an unidentified European Union source. "Pakistan is very sorry and is very upset and has taken all appropriate action in dismantling the underground network," Kasuri said. "Dr. A.Q. Khan has fallen from the high pedestal that he had," he said, adding that Khan had...

LUCENA CITY, Quezon -- Departing from their usual relatively open celebration, communist cadres and members of the New People's Army marked the 37th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) yesterday amid tight security around guerrilla camps and vigilance against possible attacks. They also aired a warning of possible assaults on American troops in the country and threatening attacks against the government. In a statement, the CPP criticized the US military for increasing intervention in the Philippines and urged militants to take steps to deter the US from "further plundering" the country. It called on its armed...

HACIENDA LUISITA, PHILIPPINES – Out beyond the picket line and the shuttered mill, the sugar fields of this vast plantation stretch to the horizon. To Rene Tua, a union activist whose father and grandfather also toiled on this land, it's a bittersweet vision. "I don't think it's fair for one family to own such a large piece of land. The farmers are the original owners ... and they should be given their land back," he says. The mill fell silent last year after unionists rejected a pay offer and led nearly 6,000 workers on strike. A week later, several men...

THE UNITED STATES is concerned classified documents allegedly stolen by Leandro Aragoncillo and Michael Ray Aquino may have ended up in the hands of communists, according to an official of the National Bureau of Investigation. Ricardo Diaz, chief of the NBI’s Interpol division, said at a recent meeting that US officials noted that known leftists were at the forefront of so-called destabilization efforts and mass actions in the country. “They said there was a possibility that the classified government information from the White House and FBI [the Federal Bureau of Investigation] are now in the hands of the local...

PHILADELPHIA -- Supporters of a proposed law that would benefit people who arrived in the United States illegally as children said Sunday that it would help more immigrants go on to get college degrees and contribute more to society. During a rally held as part of the annual convention of a national Hispanic civil-rights group, people spoke out in support of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The proposal, known as the DREAM Act, would give undocumented youth the chance to become legal U.S. residents and possibly help them get in-state college tuition. "We are not asking...

(WTNH, July 18, 2005 11:15 AM) _ Senator Christopher Dodd continues to work on a law to help children of illegal immigrants. He wants them to have the opportunity to become citizens and get a good college education. Dodd talked about his proposed "Dream Act" during a rally in Philadelphia Sunday, but critics of the proposal say it only rewards illegal behavior. The proposal would only apply to children who arrived before they turned 16 and have been in the U.S. for five years. Supporters say the law is necessary because children shouldn't be punished for their parents decision to...

As presidential adviser Karl Rove has been under fire for his role in the alleged outing of a CIA employee, a liberal blog is now suggesting people leave a special care package on Rove's lawn -- the gift of excrement. "If you just happen to be passing through, do the considerate thing and bring a small gift. We suggest a special bouquet for our esteemed latter-day Wormtongue," says A Liberal Dose. It then shows a photo of a suggested donation, followed by the observation, "Now wouldn't it be so nice to see Herr Rove's lawn carpeted with such lovely lawn...

TUBOD, Lanao del Norte -- The communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) said it is now planning to recruit Muslims to become guerrillas of the New People's Army and was setting up a new group for them. But the NDF said the establishment of the Moro Resistance and Liberation Organization (MRLO) was aimed at bolstering "the secessionist armed struggle for the Bangsamoro's rights to self-determination being waged by Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the breakaway faction of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)." "(The MRLO) would recruit Moros for the New People's Army and help establish guerrilla fronts in areas...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Supporters of offering illegal immigrants in-state tuition to North Carolina's public universities pledged Wednesday to keep fighting for the measure, offered by lawmakers in April with great expectations but defeated less than two months later without so much as a committee vote. "We're going to keep working until we get it done," said former Gov. Jim Hunt, the highest profile supporter of the bill. "They will not outlast us." Hunt and about 200 others gathered to review how the bill failed to move forward during this year's legislative session, with some meeting later to discuss their failed...

In Case You Missed It: Excerpts From RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman On FOX News' "Fox And Friends," 7/15/05 RNC CHAIRMAN KEN MEHLMAN: "Well, I think what we all know is this. We all know there's an investigation going on, we know that Karl [Rove] and the White House are cooperating fully with this investigation. And there have been two articles that are creating all this noise. One article last weekend was an article in Newsweek, which I thought exonerated Karl Rove in many ways. What it said was Karl Rove was not leaking anybody's name, he didn't know that name...

MANILA, Philippines -- Communist guerrillas on Monday renewed their threat against U.S. troops on training missions in the Philippines, saying the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq prove they can be killed despite their superior military power. The Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army, accused the U.S. government of attempting to crush their insurgency by supplying weapons and training to Filipino soldiers. The rebel army marks its 36th anniversary on Tuesday. The United States has about 100 soldiers in the Philippines as part of annual training exercises. Washington considers the communist rebels a...

Gay rebels marry in Philippines Mon Feb 7, 2005 5:27 AM GMT MANILA (Reuters) - Two communist rebels in the Philippines truly became brothers in arms when the men were married in a jungle camp, a newspaper has reported. Draped in a red flag with hammer and sickle in gold sequins, they exchanged vows, walked under an archway of assault rifles and were serenaded with revolutionary love songs by a choir of New People's Army comrades. Ka Andres and Ka Jose, who both use the word for "brother" before their names, each held a bullet during the ceremony on the...

THE communist movement will lead moves to overthrow the Arroyo administration if Angelo de la Cruz is beheaded by his abductors in Iraq. In a statement Gregorio Ka Roger Rosal, spokesman for the Communist Party of the Philippines, accused President Arroyo of sacrificing the lives of overseas Filipino workers by supporting the US-backed invasion of Iraq. “The Arroyo regime is responsible for putting the lives of Filipino workers in Iraq and the Middle East in danger, and now the dire fate and danger to the life of de la Cruz,” Rosal said. “It is the full responsibility of the puppet...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Neither the Washington, DC Police Department nor the Secret Service is commenting on the recent protest demonstration at the home of presidential advisor Karl Rove. Several hundred protesters converged on Rove's house two Sundays ago, banging on the windows and demanding a meeting. Only after Rove agreed to meet with a few of the group's leaders did the angry mob board the school buses that brought them to the quiet neighborhood. National People's Action (NPA), an activist group whose advocacy includes rights for illegal immigrants, organized the rally to demand presidential support for the Development, Relief...

How Not To Protest by Wayne BoettcherPosted 04/02/2004 In our haste to find new and exciting ways to protest liberal agendas and let the majority voice be heard in America, we should consider not just "how to protest" but also "how not to protest." And of course we have many fine examples available to us. The liberals provide complete instruction at no charge! One sort of protest is where you physically appear at a location and protest a person, company or government department with signs, songs and supplication. Let's take recent examples of two similar protest incidents where a...

<p>There is a guerrilla group on the loose in this country. But you wouldn't know it from the liberal media, which portrays the group's members as harmless activists with good hearts.</p> <p>The group is called "National People's Action." The Washington Post described NPA this week as a "coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups based in Chicago." A more accurate description is left-wing goon squad.</p>

National People's Action Open Letter to Karl Rove 4/1/2004 6:50:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: National People's Action, 312-243-3038 WASHINGTON, April 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is the text of an open letter from National People's Action to White House Senior Advisory Karl Rove: April 1, 2004 Karl Rove Senior Advisor The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. Rove, National People's Action came to Washington, DC on March 28th, 2004 to act on a variety of neighborhood issues, among which was a desire to have a discussion with you on the crisis facing...

National People's Action State Informati...   (open window) [] [Similar Results]Issues | Conference Agenda | Press Room | Getting There | What is NPA? | Home | Links | Get Fired UP! | Contact NPA | Leadership Team National People's Action is a 30-year-old coalition of 302 ...URL: http://www.npa-us.org/groups.html [MSN #1]     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109865/posts Michelle Malkin: The grievance-mongers -- National People's Action is a left-wing goon squadWashington Times ^ | Friday, March 2, 2004 | Michelle Malkin There is a guerrilla group on the loose in this country. But you wouldn't know it from the liberal media, which portrays the...

THERE IS a guerrilla group on the loose in this country. But you wouldn’t know it from the liberal media, which portrays the group’s members as harmless activists with good hearts. The group is called National People’s Action. The Washington Post described NPA this week as a “coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups based in Chicago.” A more accurate description is left-wing goon squad. This nationwide organization is made up of professional grievance-mongers from the Bronx, N.Y, to Santa Monica, Calif. They warn: “We are black, we are white, we are Latino, we are Asian. We are old, we are young,...

<p>For a moment this Sunday, the yard outside White House senior adviser Karl Rove's home looked like a scene from "On the Waterfront."</p> <p>In the screen version, Karl Malden's parish priest finds his church surrounded by union toughs who bang their clubs on the basement windows in an effort to intimidate those inside attending a meeting on dockside corruption. In the real-life Beltway version, nine busloads of activists "stormed" (the Washington Post's word) Mr. Rove's yard, blocking the street, surrounding both sides of the house and pounding on the windows at a time when he was inside with his 15-year-old son and his son's friend.</p>

There is a guerrilla group on the loose in this country. But you wouldn't know it from the liberal media, which portrays the group's members as harmless activists with good hearts. The group is called "National People's Action." The Washington Post described NPA this week as a "coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups based in Chicago." A more accurate description is left-wing goon squad. This nationwide organization is made up of professional grievance-mongers from the Bronx, N.Y, to Santa Monica, Calif. They warn: "We are black, we are white, we are Latino, we are Asian. We are old, we are young,...

<p>For a moment this Sunday, the yard outside White House senior adviser Karl Rove's home looked like a scene from "On the Waterfront."</p> <p>In the screen version, Karl Malden's parish priest finds his church surrounded by union toughs who bang their clubs on the basement windows in an effort to intimidate those inside attending a meeting on dockside corruption. In the real-life Beltway version, nine busloads of activists "stormed" (the Washington Post's word) Mr. Rove's yard, blocking the street, surrounding both sides of the house and pounding on the windows at a time when he was inside with his 15-year-old son and his son's friend.</p>

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- On Sunday, busloads of hostile demonstrators converged on the Washington, DC home of President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove. Several hundred people carrying signs surrounded the house, pounding on the windows and shouting slogans. The protest was organized by National People's Action, a coalition of groups whose advocacy includes rights for illegal immigrants and increased government funding for a wide range of social programs. The philosophy of their confrontational tactics is embodied in their official song: "Who's on your hit list NPA? Who's on your hit list for today? Take no prisoner, take no names....

The protest was organized by National People's Action, a coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups based in Chicago. Leaders said they want Bush to advocate for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, a bill that would permit immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least five years to apply for legal resident status once they graduate from high school. The measure would eliminate provisions of current federal law that discourage states from providing in-state tuition to undocumented student immigrants. Immigrant activists say that 50,000 to 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high school each year...

Hidden under a lush canopy of trees in the southern Philippines, a group of excited youngsters prepare for their graduation ceremony. There will be no caps and gowns, but the graduates are sure of a job -- attacking town halls and police stations and ambushing army patrols across sprawling Mindanao island as the latest recruits to the world's most resilient communist insurgency. They will also demand money from mining companies and plantations and run "political education" classes in remote villages, adding to a growing national security headache for the government as May 10 national elections approach. Comrade Oris, in...

WASHINGTON, March 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Hundreds of grassroots leaders representing National People's Action (NPA) are paying a visit to the home of President Bush (news - web sites)'s Senior Policy Advisor Karl Rove on Sunday, March 28, because he refused to meet with them to discuss the rights of immigrant youth. NPA and immigrant rights' leaders want the White House to support the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act). It would grant access to instate tuition for children of immigrants whose families have been in the county at least five years and paid taxes for...

Several hundred people stormed the small yard of President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, yesterday afternoon, pounding on his windows, shoving signs at others and challenging Rove to talk to them about a bill that deals with educational opportunities for immigrants. Protesters poured out of one school bus after another, piercing an otherwise quiet, peaceful Sunday in Rove's Palisades neighborhood in Northwest, chanting, "Karl, Karl, come on out! See what the DREAM Act is all about!" Rove obliged their first request and opened his door long enough to say, "Get off my property."

Hundreds Storm Office of JP Morgan Chase Lobbyist, Demand Commitment to Communities 3/29/2004 10:49:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Emily Severson, 708-466-4433; http://www.npa-us.org WASHINGTON, March 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Hundreds of grassroots neighborhood leaders from National People's Action (NPA) are paying a visit to the office of the head of Federal Governmental Affairs for JP Morgan Chase, Stephen S. Ruhlen, on Monday, March 29, to demand that JP Morgan sign a written agreement to commit to communities. The leaders plan to arrive at Ruhlen's office, located at 300 Connecticut Ave., NW, around 11 a.m. EST. NPA spearheaded efforts...

Tax-Funded Attacks Against White House Employees?! [Call for Action!] Imagine you take a temporary job with your local school board, and that you are trying to encourage better educational standards. Let's say some school employees don't appreciate your changes to the curriculum. So, one Sunday afternoon, they grab the keys to a few school buses, fill them with a couple of hundred activists and impressionable kids from their classes, and truck on over to your house. These activists unload the adult instigators and the kids, and they surround your house and pound on your windows and scream at you all...

Demonstrators Swarm Around Rove's Home By Steven Ginsberg Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 29, 2004; Page B01 Several hundred people stormed the small yard of President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, yesterday afternoon, pounding on his windows, shoving signs at others and challenging Rove to talk to them about a bill that deals with educational opportunities for immigrants.

<p>WASHINGTON, March 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Hundreds of community leaders from National People's Action (NPA) are paying a visit to the home of Department of Labor's (DOL) Secretary Elaine Chao on Sunday, March 28. They are demanding that low-wage workers receive quality job training and access to permanent jobs.</p>

Several hundred people stormed the small yard of President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, yesterday afternoon, pounding on his windows, shoving signs at others and challenging Rove to talk to them about a bill that deals with educational opportunities for immigrants. Protesters poured out of one school bus after another, piercing an otherwise quiet, peaceful Sunday in Rove's Palisades neighborhood in Northwest, chanting, "Karl, Karl, come on out! See what the DREAM Act is all about!" Rove obliged their first request and opened his door long enough to say, "Get off my property."

<p>WASHINGTON, March 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Hundreds of grassroots leaders representing National People's Action (NPA) are paying a visit to the home of President Bush's Senior Policy Advisor Karl Rove on Sunday, March 28, because he refused to meet with them to discuss the rights of immigrant youth.</p>

Community Leaders Demand that DOL Secretary Elaine Chao Support Low-Wage Workers, Hundreds Gather at Her Home 3/28/2004 5:21:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Emily Severson, 708-466-4433; http://www.npa-us.org WASHINGTON, March 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Hundreds of community leaders from National People's Action (NPA) are paying a visit to the home of Department of Labor's (DOL) Secretary Elaine Chao on Sunday, March 28. They are demanding that low-wage workers receive quality job training and access to permanent jobs. Leaders plan to arrive around 6 p.m. to Chao's house, located at 217 C Street, NE, in Washington. There have been 3...

6 killed as rebels clash in Mindanao Six New People's Army (NPA) rebels were killed when guerilla units supposed to be meeting to plan a joint attack mistook each other for government troops, the military said Monday. Guerrillas from one unit of the NPA ventured into the territory of another last week to join forces for the assault, local military commander Lt. Col. Johnny Macanas said. But under cover of darkness, they mistook each other for soldiers and opened fire in the confusion, Macanas said. The joint attack they were planning was to have been carried out on March...

MANILA : A 13-year-old girl and two communist guerrillas have been killed following a gunbattle with Philippine troops, the military said. Four others were wounded in the hour-long firefight, triggered when some 100 New Peoples Army (NPA) guerrillas attacked an army detachment near the mining town of Monkayo in the southern island of Mindanao. High school student Hannah Joy Villaber was slain in the crossfire while two rebels were shot dead. A soldier and three other civilians were also wounded, a military report said. Local army commander Colonel Maximo Caro said the NPA was stepping up its attacks ahead of...

THE ROAD to peace is paved with body bags. This seems to be the message of the National Democratic Front (NDF) in its on-and-off peace talks with the government. After signing with the government over the weekend the Oslo Joint Statement, a tentative roadmap to peace that is more prayer than map, it dispatched New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas to ambush a police and military convoy in Masbate province and kill nine policemen. The double talk is vintage NDF. After making a peace sign with the right hand, it pulls the trigger with the left. After toasting peace, it explodes...

The National Democratic Front (NDF), which represents the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) in the peace negotiations with the Philippine government in Oslo, Norway, is pushing for the holding of the next round of talks in the China by the end of March. NDF panel chairman Luis Jalandoni said Beijing has already sent "positive feelers" to both parties that it is willing to host the talks. The Philippine government and communist guerrillas wrapped up four days of peace negotiations in Oslo on Saturday with a compromise on the thorny issue of whether the...

Communist New People's Army (NPA) rebels ambushed a police patrol on Monday, killing eight of them in the central Philippine island of Masbate, police said. The attack came two days after peace negotiators from the government and the rebels concluded talks in Oslo to find a lasting political settlement to more than three decades of armed insurgency that has killed more than 40,000 people. Police spokesman Joel Goltiao said soldiers and police were verifying reports on Monday that a village chief in Milagros town was also killed in rebel fire. "Eight policemen were killed when their jeep hit a landmine,"...

CAMP MELCHOR DELA CRUZ, Gamu, Isabela—Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels ambushed a military foot patrol in a remote town in western Cagayan on Sunday, killing five soldiers and wounding two others, an officer here reported. Maj. Rogelio Migote, spokesman for the 5th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army based in this camp, said the ambush occurred in Barangay Illuru Sur in Rizal, about 100 kilometers away from Tuguegarao City in Cagayan. Migote identified the dead as Sergeants Danilo Sanchez and Patricio Icudan, Cpl. Gervacio Agapito, Private First Class Vicente Valdez Jr. and Justo Welba, a member of the Citizen’s...

A SENIOR Philippine military official on Wednesday accused unnamed politicians of giving weapons and money to communist guerrillas in a bid to boost their chances in the May general elections. These politicians are aiding the New People's Army (NPA) to gain safe passage to rebel-influenced areas when the election campaigning starts on Feb. 10, Armed Forces Vice Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Rodolfo Garcia told reporters. "Our intelligence people have been dutifully submitting the names of politicians who have given money or even those politicians who in lieu of money have given instead arms," he said. "We have been able...

COMMUNIST rebels attacked government and other targets with impunity on Friday and Tuesday, destroying a cell site, burning buses and a cargo truck and putting a power plant under siege. Four Air Force soldiers were killed in the attack on the National Power Corp. Plant in Calaca town, Batangas province. While in Dumarao town, Capiz province, the guerrillas destroyed a cell site of the Globe Telecommunications firm. The guerrillas burned three buses in Canlaon City in two separate attacks Friday and Saturday. On Tuesday, guerrillas burned a cargo truck owned by a sugar planter in Silay City, Negros Occidental province....

Rebel spokesman Gregorio Rosal reads a statementfrom his laptop computer during a clandestine pressconference Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004 at the communist NewPeople's Army encampment in northern Philippines. NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY ENCAMPMENT, Philippines -- Wearing his trademark Mao cap and neck scarf, Gregorio Rosal appeared in a communist rebel jungle camp with the tools of his trade: an M-16 rifle, laptop computer, a pocket radio, mobile phones and a harmonica. For more than a decade, the frail Philippine rebel spokesman has built a reputation for public relations on behalf of the Marxist guerrillas, countering the military's portrayal of the fighters as...

Communist guerrillas vowed to intensify attacks ahead of the May elections to help bring down President Arroyo’s administration because of her strong ties with the United States. A spokesman for the 35-year-old Marxist insurgency also warned American troops training Filipino soldiers in counterterrorism to stay away from rural communist strongholds or face rebel attacks. Mrs. Arroyo has relied on US military aid to take action against Muslim extremists and the communist insurgents, and has angered nationalists and leftists by supporting the US-led wars against terror and in Iraq. “Bringing about the collapse of the Arroyo regime is the only rightful...

IT is easy to see the Inquirer special report series by Juan V. Sarmiento on the bloody purges of the Communist Party in the 1980's as another case of the revolution devouring its own children. This is a deterministic view. The polarization that happened then, fostered on the one hand by a newly restored democratic government that sought to reassert democracy and turn back the gains of the communist insurgency by a military push, and on the other, by a communist movement that was trying to recover lost ground after missing the boat at the Edsa Revolution, appeared to have...