 The EDSA Revolution

Thousands of people support and began massing outside the rebel camps on
EDSA. An estimated one to two million people converged on Camp Crame and Camp
Aguinaldo. For four (4) days from February 22nd to 25th of 1986, “people power” the
Enrile-Ramos rebellion which increasingly declared support to Cory Aquino. The four
days of the February “Revolution” were marked by the outpouring of love, anger,
hysteria and courage by a people desiring for change.

 Noong 1989 may nakita o nahukay na copper oplate sa Laguna. May nakasulat dito at
walang nakakaintindi. Mayroon isang Dutch ang nakakalam nito na “Tinanggal ang
pagkakautang ng Tondonians.

 Ang social statification ay mayaman o siya ang pinakamataas katulad ng Datu. Ang
maharlika ay “Timawa” ang ibig sabihin ay malaya at walang amo ngunit ang alipin a
“Oripun” o mahirap at may amo. Ang isang Barangay Datu kailangan ay matapang
walang kinatatakutan at kailangan ay mayaman para kapag panahon ng tag-gutom ay
siya ang magpapakain sa mga tao niya o kaya ay ipinapasa sa iba na may kakayahan.
Ang Datu dapat ay may mga anak at kailangan na dumami ang kanyang lahi para may
makatulong sa buhay. Ang sinasamba nila ay iyong nakikita sa paligid katulad ng
buwan, buwaya o palayan.

 Ang Huling Prinsesa

Ang Huling Prinsesa or the Last Princess is a documentary by Filipina

journalist Kara David for her show I-Witness (GMA). It was aired July 19, 2004.
Princesses were a portion of our childhood memories. I’m sure it was all one
of our dreams to be one growing up. However, in Tumandok folk in Tapaz, Capiz
Philippines, there were adult females who were treated like a princess. These women
were known as binukot.
The binukot was normally the prettiest girl of the main folk. The term was
derived from “bukot” which means “to keep”. To be a binukot, you should be the most
beautiful girl in your family or even in your tribe. Once a girl becomes a binukot, she
will be treated as a princess. The binukot never really lived in grand palaces as they
tended to live in a simpler nipa hut. The binukot never really left their hut as well. The
only time they actually got to go out was if there was an occasion where they must
dance their traditional dances and sing their ancient songs. If the binukot left the house
with no special occasion occurring, a binukot would have been carried by 4 other
people, wearing a veil that would hide her face. They did this in order to protect her
from the sun and to protect her from any kind of danger. Once you became a binukot,
you would really be treated as a princess.
I was thoroughly intrigued Kara David’s documentary showed the binukot with
her veil covering the beauty that was praised by everyone in the tribe. I desperately
wanted to know how pretty she truly was. After the high build-up of anticipation from
waiting the binukot’s beauty was finally revealed. To my shock it was revealed that
the binukot was in fact 73 years old. This 73 year old lady was stuck with in that hut
for all of her life and was stuck with the same routine for 73 years, I could not feel
 anything buy pity to how boring that would have been .Despite this, I personally
commend her for doing all of this as because through this she was the living history
of the tumandoks. Without her, their ancient roots would have been nothing.
During World War II the binukots went through a very dark time. Japanese
troops had reached the mountains of Tumandoks. Everyone ran for their lives but the
binukots were left in their room. They were physically weak since they weren’t allowed
to do physical work so running for their lives wouldn’t have work for them. They were
the victims of the Japanese men that time. They were seen lifeless and even nude.
Because of that incident, parents feared or their daughters and refused in making their
daughter’s a binukot, this is clearly the main reason why there are few princesses
today. Additionally people were becoming more and more deterred from the image of
no freedom which is a plausible reason.
However in Ilo-Ilo, tumadoks have showed us that you can preserve the
culture without being a prisoner. This is because they have a school exclusively for
tumandoks who wants to learn their culture. This classes are held every Sunday so
that it wouldn’t affect the schooling of kids.
I admire tumadoks for preserving their culture that well. I admire them also
for modernizing their way of teaching these culture to new generation. We also
shouldn’t forget our ancient roots as Filipinos. Let us be like tumandoks who never
forgot where they came from.

 1872 Cavite Mutiny and Execution of Gomburza

The Cavite Mutiny of 1872 was an uprising of military personnel of Fort San
Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in Cavite, Philippines on January 20, 1872. Around 200
soldiers and laborers rose up in the belief that it would elevate to a national uprising.
The mutiny was unsuccessful, and government soldiers executed many of the
participants and began to crack down on a burgeoning nationalist movement. Many
scholars believe that the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 was the beginning of Filipino
nationalism that would eventually lead to the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This event
has been unforgettable and reflected in the 12 events that changed influenced the
Philippine History in a major way.
The Spanish authorities viewed the event as an overturning of the colonial rule
in the Islands, even considering it as part of a greater national movement to liberate
the Philippines from Spain, Fr. Mariano Gomez of Bacoor, Cavite, Fr. Jose Burgos and
Fr. Jacinto Zamora of Manila Cathedral were unjustly accused as egilators of the anti-
Spanish movement. Until the time they were executed by the garotte.
This event is meaningful to the following Filipinos – Gomburza [an acronym
denoting the surnames of the priests Mariano Gómez, José Apolonio Burgos, and
Jacinto Zamora, three Filipino priests who were executed on 17 February 1872 at
Bagumbayan in Manila, Philippines by Spanish colonial authorities on charges of
subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny. Their execution left a profound effect
on many Filipinos; José Rizal, the national hero, would dedicate his novel El
filibusterismo to their memory.
 1896 Philippine Revolution

The Philippine Revolution began in August 1896, when the Spanish authorities
discovered the Katipunan, a colonial secret organization. The Katipunan, led by
Andrés Bonifacio, was a liberationist movement whose goal was independence from
the 333 years of colonial control from Spain through armed revolt. The organization
began to influence much of the Philippines. During a mass gathering in Caloocan, the
leaders of the Katipunan organized themselves into a revolutionary government,
named the newly established government "Haring Bayang Katagalugan", and openly
declared a nationwide armed revolution. Bonifacio called for an attack on the capital
city of Manila. This attack failed; however, the surrounding provinces began to revolt.
In particular, rebels in Cavite led by Mariano Álvarez and Emilio Aguinaldo (who were
from two different factions of the Katipunan) won major early victories. A power
struggle among the revolutionaries led to Bonifacio's death in 1897, with command
shifting to Aguinaldo, who led the newly formed revolutionary government. That year,
the revolutionaries and the Spanish signed the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, which temporarily
reduced hostilities. Aguinaldo and other Filipino officers exiled themselves in the Kong
in southeast China. However, the hostilities never completely ceased.